Not that the score should matter, it's hard not to disguise that no one wants to lose against these fucks, it will be the same when we play the scum (and why these derbies should never be played as pre-season games). So, yeah fucking delighted we didn't lose.
Secondly, that fucking cunt Clive Walker on co-comms gut him!
Should have had a pen, Son should have scored and Davies too!
Chavs were the better side by some distance in the first half, without really having that many great opportunities.
To focus on that first half for a moment, I didn't like our 4-3-3, what I thought was wrong and played into Chavs hads perfectly was Nuno played his number 8's (Dele & Skipp) very, very wide. I get the idea here, it requires one of Bergwijn, Son or Lucas to drop in pick the ball up, turn and run or play through the lines to one of the now overlapping 8's. The problem is we couldn't do this, example is where this failed was their first goal, Lucas was one of the front 3 to drop in but he lost the ball, Chavs are lethal in transition and with our 8's so wide we have NO MIDFIELD.
Also in the first half, I felt Son, Bergwjin and Lucas lost most of their 1v1's, a 4-3-3 requires the front 3 to go 1v1.
I've not read any comments but I bet some on here were suckered into Clive Walkers trolling on Dele! He had no idea that he was playing as an 8. He had no idea that no player on the pitch turned over the ball more (both in 1st half and 2nd), yet Kante put in two tackles and he made him out as God!
I was really, really pleased with Gollini, positionally looked good, made a couple of good saves, looked good with his feet, made a lovely one touch pass out to Winks in 2nd half.
Dougherty = Dogshit. Aurier did more in his 10mins than Doherty did in his 80min, just like Tripps the only successful pass he makes is backwards to our CB's, nothing forwards, can't take on his man. Shite.
Reggie, great energy as we so often get from him but he was poor.
Dier - Very good game. Good and constant communication with those around him. Positionally great especially as Reggie was so poor (and PEH miles and miles off the pace in 1st half - PEH didn't close down his man for their 1st goal)
Tanganga - Thought he looked out of his depth-first half, he's a battler who never gives up just not ready yet IMO. Much improved 2nd half once have made their changes.
PEH - Just miles off the pace, which exasperated our non-existant midfield with our wide 8's. Not having a opo as he only got back a couple of days ago.
Dele - As mentioned above won more tackles and made more interceptions than anyone on the pitch. I think he's looking fit, he's able to play this deeper role and join attacks. Nothing much on show creatively but that's more down to Chavs being better and our tactics not really helping.
Skipp - Poor first half, unlike Dele lost his battles. Improved 2nd half
Winks - Actually played well. He controlled the tempo and enabled us to get on the ball. I would have preferred him to have started, I doubt he would have been able to do this with Chavs pressing (would like to have seen if he could. We would have learned more if that happened and might have helped PEH settle back in).
FWIW - We played much much better than Woolwich did when they played them at the weekend. Unfortunately, Chavs are miles ahead of us right now, no point losing your shit because the performance wasn't great against a team that I think will push City all the way this year. Just pleased we didn't lose and we didn't sit on the edge of our box for 90mins, right now I'll take it.
