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Match Sporting CP vs Tottenham Hotspur. UEFA Champions League. Tuesday 13th September 2022 @17:45

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If Conte starts throwing his toys out the pram in the post match then I’m not hearing it. Team selection wrong today.
Everything many have said about has come to roast here. No subs, playing shite like davies and royal and persevering with son for so many games. Tactics as always seem to be to play slow although we were forced a little bit to attack. In the end they had more of the ball. All on conte who has just got out smarter by a 37 yr old coach whose team played 3 days ago. He introduced fresh legs when needed . Surely skipp Biss spence Doh or even Gil could have offered more. Although we have been wining games this season like we did under Nuno originally the results could easily swing the other way.
 
I hope this is a wake up call to Conte. This type of football is shit. He asked to be backed in the transfer window and on the whole he was. What's the point of signing all those players and then never play most of them.

Spence would be so much better than that fucking accident waiting to happen Emerson Royal. We can all see how shit he is, why can't Conte?

Why is he playing 2 negative and average midfielders, when there's Bissouma. One of the best midfielders in the league recently?

Just a couple of questions that need answering.
Hojbjerg (2 goals this season) and Bentancur are more than capable, it's the tactics. This whole system relies on the WBs being excellent, when 1 or both are shit and you lose the midfield with only 2 in there, nothing works.
 
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First half I thought Sporting were there for the taking.

But with two in midfield, if Bentancur has a bad day (like today) we can't rely on someone with such limited ambition as Hojbjerg (who was poor as well) to pull us through

Top it off with Emerson pretending to be a WB and a non-existent front 3, what did we expect?
The were there for the taking until 10 minutes to play. We bottled it
 
No no no!

This is contes fault!!

RWB who cannot play over the halfway line.
Picking a striker on a stinking run of form.
Playing two in midfield who have been outgunned in virtually every game.
Late changes.
Not enough change.

This is on him. He has no right to bollock them.
They are better than this if they play to effort. That’s my opinion.
 
Right, angry phase over for me. One of those yawn games that I wont remember. Just have to smash them next month. Live and learn.

BEER!
 
Who'll say it first - seems like the Maureen moment. Can conte change things, he's not managed so far this season. Some dreadful performances and some players looking distinctly off it (kane and son). Playing his mates week in week out makes a farce of our summer signings and waiting 70 minutes to change things??? You seriously can't say Spence or doc are worse than brazils anti Cafu. Kulu looks like he has the touch to beat his man every time but he sits on the bench!? Son looks exhausted, his touch has gone and his head will follow soon. Suppose now we get to see if conte has anything actually about him.
 
Kulusevski the answer? Thats like replacing casper the friendly ghost with the ghost of Christmas past.

WE NEED PACE. We need a direct player that bombs forward. We need creativity in midfield. Sick of us being a tall rugby team. Its fucking boring.

PAAAAAAAACEEEEE

Think Looney Tunes GIF by Looney Tunes World of Mayhem
 
Can’t say I invested much into watching that, which is probably more than many of our players invested into their performances.

When you have two CM and a RB on bookings with 15 minutes to go, might be worth making a Sub.

When your main striker is having a stinker, might be worth moving the front line about and putting in an attacking option in addition to what you have.

Basically, thrown away £800k and potentially £2.5m in prize money through half arsed performances.

I detest Royle. He reminds me of Mitchell Thomas.
 
Open up teams or not, 10 yard passes are surely necessary to not break up our own attack.

We fail to do the simple things to win games which is the most frustrating thing out of it all.
Totally agree. If the players played like they should we're comfortable.
On conte is the lack of subs, son and royal starting.
Romero had a stinker who would have thought.
We couldnt pass the ball 5 yards. No game control. Ivan put in 3 good balls emerson 1 no one attacked them.
Players get the finger out we win.
Kulu, lenglet, doherty/spence, skipp to start sat
 
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