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Match Sporting (H) - UCL - 26/10, 8pm
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you know what's amusing and painful, Emerson was comfortably the best of the rear 6 on Sunday.
all these years and all this trading done and still rolling up with dier, davies, sessegnon, sanchez in key roles. Hugo i'll ignore as it's very hard to get a top quality goalkeeper to come in while the France's number one is fit and healthy and relatively still sharp
all these years and all this trading done and still rolling up with dier, davies, sessegnon, sanchez in key roles. Hugo i'll ignore as it's very hard to get a top quality goalkeeper to come in while the France's number one is fit and healthy and relatively still sharp
You're right, but it makes me wonder about Ndombele. If Royal and NDombele are opposite ends of that spectrum. Are we, in fact, just staring into a black hole?
Joking aside, we obviously need the best of both worlds: footballing ability AND working hard.
Who makes that list (most of the time)?
Kane
Son
Kulusevski
Lucas
Richarlison
Hojbjerg
Bentancur
Skipp
Perisic
Lenglet
Romero
Lloris
Who might not:
(due to questionable ball-playing skills and regular fuckups)
Davies
Dier
Sanchez
Those who don't:
Royal
Doc
Sess
Now, I love Eric Dier (#AEDLM) and Davies is a decent player, but it's obvious we need solidity at the back and have serious issues on the wingbacks. 1 out of 4, ffs. Jan is a big window.
Fuck, I miss Verts.
Lloris has been found out with all this passing about in our own penalty area that Conte has the team doing. But it's not just him, Dier spends too much time on the ball deciding what to do with it. Our wingback 'outlets' are failures. I'm not seeing the movement from Kane and Son as I once did.
I don't even see what the hoo-ha is about Perisic, I've got him down as 'ok' and nothing more than.
Our midfield are full of sideways and backward passes. Sometimes it's passed all the way back to Lloris who then kicks the ball upfield, he'd have been as well doing that to start with than to pass it to the CB, who then play one/twos with the CMF before passing it back to Lloris for a kick upfield.
It's like teams have found us out and they just mark Kane wherever he goes, and double up on Son. who is way out of form anyway.
I think we should have Gil playing tonight, if for nothing more than forward going inspiration.
Which was inevitably routed in the matter of injury/revovery/fitness.....
He wasn't just cunting the lad off.
He's clearly fond of him..... Look at all the love he showered him with after the Everton game.
he is already more than decent bentancur.
maybe the strikers are the ones who can benefit from an upgrade on our WBs
i'd like to see peri as one of the wide forwards while kulu is out. He's crossing is next level, and he's a good dribbler, and two footed. Think he could lay alot on to Kane. He doesn't have the athleticism anymore to do as good a job at WB in the hectic premier league and that wide forward is/was his main position so im surprised he hasn't played their over lucas.
Gill never gonna start a game in the CL unless we somehow have a dead rubber against Marselle were we finish top no matter what
It seems to me that Doherty has been fit after his injury but his form isn't what it was like before the injury.
Be interesting to see who starts tonight. I prefer Matthew to Emerson.
Why do you think Conte is playing Spence for a few minutes at the end of matches, rather than give him at least 15 minutes so the kid has a chance to impress?
Because he had an above average game and the rest of the backline pretty much had shockers.
He’s not normally above the other defenders.
I assume the litmus test will be the league game at the weekend.
He's presumably not happy with him yet.......
No probs, hope you have a trouble-free journey xxI’ll do my best to meet up, but make no promises.
I’m coming straight from a work meeting and I’m coming in on a route I haven’t done before so I’m not sure I’ll get there early enough.
Who are we but mere farmers to question the stunning nous of such a vaunted footballing pedigree?
I just saw a big bunch of SPL fans outside London Bridge Station. Asked them if they'd come to take back Eric Dier. Big laughs.....not sure they are getting g how serious I was.
Yay. I’m a Skipp fan but I think he’s the 3rd best player on that team sheet and that’s not good.
Fuck it , they might as well just give us the trophy now!
