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I'm sure this has already been discussed but I'm at the airport at the moment and unfortunately do not have time to go through all the threads. Why did soldado not start/ play at all? And Where's vertonghen and chiriches?

I'd think it's tactical.

Soldado's strengths probably wouldn't work against a park the bus hoofing team like West Ham

Vertonghen is still recovering from the world cup like the rest of the lads (minus Lloris), and Chiriches is still out with a back problem (allegedly)
 
There is clearly lots that need to be worked on before the players are fully acclimatised to MP's tactics. There were times where it felt very similar to last season, though.

Any idea why Davies didn't play? Rose was awful.
You think? I thought Rose was one of our best defenders yesterday, I definitely thought several times throughout the match that he really stepped his game up and has much better concentration. Great to have Davies as it seems to have pushed Rose.
 
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You think? I thought Rose was one of our best defenders yesterday, I definitely thought several times throughout the match that he really stepped his game up and has much better concentration. Great to have Davies as it seems to have pushed Rose.

That's exactly it he looked like the rose who played for Sunderland that we needed last season, thing is last year we were always begging for him to come back as we had no option, we may even rushed him back which may have hurt his performances,
having Davies there will make a huge difference, big season for rose.... And everyone else, in a big squad u can't play badly for long
 
You think? I thought Rose was one of our best defenders yesterday, I definitely thought several times throughout the match that he really stepped his game up and has much better concentration. Great to have Davies as it seems to have pushed Rose.
seriously?
I would have major concerns as a manager about my left back, if every realistic opportunity that the opposition had, came from their right wing position, even to the point where their penalty was won off our right back covering in the left back slot at a set piece.
He was positive going forward, as usual - but as a converted winger that's always going to be the case.
In fairness, he had little tangible cover or support from the midfield, which should have materialised when he was evidently out of his depth.
 
Downing drifted around alot and linked up with Noble thru the middle. Rose was solid and played his part in a clean sheet first match of the season. Kaboul looked far more the weaker link yesterday but yet in still people are looking to have a go at Rose. We played 2 holding mids so they should be covering Rose when he bombs forward. Lastly Downing is actually a good player on his day.
 
I thought Downing had the better of Rose. Saying "Downing is a good player" doesn't really make it ok.

he's an attacking player who created zero goals and scored zero goals so how exactly did he get the better of him

Noble was their best player but nobody is talking about him because Bentaleb and Capoue are fan favourites at present

wet spams best chance came right thru the middle when Kaboul got hung out to dry from a back heel and Capoue I believe was left reeling

fact is people just really want Davies to start so they are trying to pick holes in Roses game when the kid was solid
 
We might be playing two holding midfielders, but none of Nabil or Capoue are really at their best there, when we dont ALSO have the ball a lot.

As soon as it's about tracking runners, scrapping for clearences and marking the space in front of the bx against someone like Nolan, they are overmatched.

However I thought their pass-and-move football and their forward passing was very good. Nabil gets a bit of stick for passing sideways, but I don't think that's true at all.
 
he's an attacking player who created zero goals and scored zero goals so how exactly did he get the better of him

Noble was their best player but nobody is talking about him because Bentaleb and Capoue are fan favourites at present

wet spams best chance came right thru the middle when Kaboul got hung out to dry from a back heel and Capoue I believe was left reeling

fact is people just really want Davies to start so they are trying to pick holes in Roses game when the kid was solid

No mate, that's not the "fact" with me. Downing was their best player IMO. The fact his teams strikers are shit isn't his fault.

And as for "solid" I don't agree. Rose was OK tbh, I didn't have a problem with him. But solid he was not. Downing did have the better of him, Rose had fuck all to do with the fact Downings efforts didn't get converted into goals for the most part. The only defender I felt happy about yesterday was Dier because he did really well at right back I thought. If someone disagrees with you based on observation and rationale don't arrogantly assume it's because they're desperate for Davies to play.
 
Not sure why the Downing against Rose issue is continued to be used against him. It was quite clear that a great portion of why "Downing got the better of Rose at times" was because the CM's were not closing on him when we only had 10 men. As such, Rose had to travel a distance to meet him, and at that point Downing had the time to get into an area ten yards or so further that gave him more of an advantage, because Rose couldn't run at a backwards slant that would shut that run from Downing down because he'd then be opening up several yards of space directly behind him for keeping runners onside that he couldn't see. So it's either he is forced to take on an a player from a shit position defensively, or he screws over his entire back line.

He made the right decision in those instances, and did just fine yesterday.
 
I actually thought their best player was the new Gadgy, Kouyate or what ever his name is.

Their fans are making out that they are really pleased with the way their team played and it is a good sign for the rest of the season.????? REALLY..
If we had been playing against 10 men since the 29th minute and only had 4 shots on target and had less possession, and lost...i would be going mental..
I would have been screaming for a 2nd striker but that fat Twat was as cautious as ever..
They are so easily pleased.
 
Makes me laugh how they are all going on about how shit our defence is, the morons are conveniently forgetting we were without Walker, Vertonghen & Davies.
We are so shit but we still beat them with 10 men. What does that make them.
 
Makes me laugh how they are all going on about how shit our defence is, the morons are conveniently forgetting we were without Walker, Vertonghen & Davies.
We are so shit but we still beat them with 10 men. What does that make them.

They are just bitter they lost the cup final, we to would be spitting if we lost a cup final, still at least the spammers have another final at white hart lane later in the year.
 
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