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We had 65% possession at their place. Seriously, who does that to them. We are well placed, they played like the away team and only wanted to counter.
Positives:
Soldado will score when we give him chances.
Lloris is a fucking hero.
Our squad is immense and give it a month or so, we'll be dicking teams.
Let them paper over the cracks with this win. Don't sign anyone and see how good your season turns out.
North London is and always will be ours.
Positives:
Soldado will score when we give him chances.
Lloris is a fucking hero.
Our squad is immense and give it a month or so, we'll be dicking teams.
Let them paper over the cracks with this win. Don't sign anyone and see how good your season turns out.
North London is and always will be ours.
What identity are you talking about? If our identity is intrinsically linked to the 100m you referred to then that would mean our identity is/ was Bale. That's a little absurd and more troubling is the fact that it would fully support the idea of us being that one man team we so often hear about. Frankly, I'm happy to lose that "identity"
Same as the other games for me, defensively we were good apart from being a bit sloppy for the goal but Lloris saved us on a couple of occasions again.
Going forward is a different case as we rarely got behind their defence, Townsend skinned Gibbs early on but never kept at him. We are missing that killer pass and it was all a bit scrappy around their box but despite that we had Woolwich hanging on at the end, even with 4 fullbacks on the pitch FFS.
Eriksen is going to be the key though, we need him to hit the ground running especially with dead ball situations as we were fucking poor at those all day.
Going forward is a different case as we rarely got behind their defence, Townsend skinned Gibbs early on but never kept at him. We are missing that killer pass and it was all a bit scrappy around their box but despite that we had Woolwich hanging on at the end, even with 4 fullbacks on the pitch FFS.
Eriksen is going to be the key though, we need him to hit the ground running especially with dead ball situations as we were fucking poor at those all day.
Lack of urgency. Its basically our entire problem - sort that out and adding an AM or not we would be formidable IMO.
We play at touring car speeds when we have F1 players.
In each game so far this season there has been a spell where we actually play with the pace this team requires and each time the opposing team has had no reply, the ball has been in and around their box, the gaps between midfield and attack have close, the fluidity has been there and we have looked unbeatable.
Why we purposefully play so pedestrian (at which point skill is everything and an AM is essential) I simply cannot understand. We should be blowing teams away
Ive seen him in 6 matches now including Athletico and taken the same impression from each, even against the Georgian pub side he barely looked better.
This is the problem.
PEOPLE. ONCE WE GET A CENTRAL ATTACKING MID INTEGRATED WE. WILL. BE. FINE.
The plan seems to be to attack through the wings, almost nothing centrally. Our wings are inverted so they like to cut in for shots, specially Townsend. Chadli put up a few crosses but Soldado isn't the kind of striker you can just throw up crosses to. They need to find better ways to service him and that includes a central midfield approach.
Everything today just looked scrappy and un-coordinated. If it looks like that in three months ill be more concerned For now I'm willing to accept its early days.
Are we going to have another discussion about urgency? Let's wait for @
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