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Even Gibbs knows more about football than you. You have been found out so many times on this board chatting utter shit. Stick to Lego you know fuck all about supporting a football team.
originally I agreed with you, then I noticed that you had Gibbs, knows, more and football in the same sentence.
You know that's an offence against credibility, don't you?

Otherwise - top post!
 
Not sure what all the angst is about, really.

We mullered them in their own backyard, silenced their crowd and played some damn good football. They scored from a triple deflection and left us with pinocchio on the line as last ditch defence, so that was never staying out. Then they levelled with a total fluke, scored, accidentally, by a guy who had been on for less than a minute.

Ade was totally knackered and despite his goal, Chadli played most of the game looking like he had boxing gloves on his feet rather than boots. Took it well mind, almost makes you think he might turn out useful. Lamela spent the whole game looking like a superb futsal/5 a side player, and when he opens his game up to a full sized pitch he's going to be a bastard to stay with, he gets better every game for me.
Dier cant attack and recover like Rose - and Rose can't defend like..............a defender.
Capoue and Dembele both played well and linked the defence and what passed for an attack, in a massively lively and fluid rolling, sprawling nightmare of an offensive unit. Their defensive mids and defenders are going to have nightmares tonight and will probably all sign on to their nearest place of worship tomorrow.
Vlad the impaler was awesome at defending and overconfident in going forward, but kept his brainfarts to a minimum. Their pathetic number of attempts and loris's lazy afternoon are testimony to their (our defensive) dominance.
A bit more luck and that could have been 4/5 -2.
Larsson needs beating to death with a 10 foot rubber cock.
Brown should have been sent off.
Rose should have been booked for his pathetic diving.

IMHO
 
Well plenty of positives -
• very attractive ball movement
• lots of improvement in Dembele, more fwd thinking than last yr.
• Lamele, Eriksen continuing improvement. Lamela one tap in away from scoring a bag of goals.
• Stambouli looked good when he came on.
• we did not lose.
For the future -
• got to keep working on the defence.
 
Not sure what all the angst is about, really.

We mullered them in their own backyard, silenced their crowd and played some damn good football. They scored from a triple deflection and left us with pinocchio on the line as last ditch defence, so that was never staying out. Then they levelled with a total fluke, scored, accidentally, by a guy who had been on for less than a minute.

Ade was totally knackered and despite his goal, Chadli played most of the game looking like he had boxing gloves on his feet rather than boots. Took it well mind, almost makes you think he might turn out useful. Lamela spent the whole game looking like a superb futsal/5 a side player, and when he opens his game up to a full sized pitch he's going to be a bastard to stay with, he gets better every game for me.
Dier cant attack and recover like Rose - and Rose can't defend like..............a defender.
Capoue and Dembele both played well and linked the defence and what passed for an attack, in a massively lively and fluid rolling, sprawling nightmare of an offensive unit. Their defensive mids and defenders are going to have nightmares tonight and will probably all sign on to their nearest place of worship tomorrow.
Vlad the impaler was awesome at defending and overconfident in going forward, but kept his brainfarts to a minimum. Their pathetic number of attempts and loris's lazy afternoon are testimony to their (our defensive) dominance.
A bit more luck and that could have been 4/5 -2.
Larsson needs beating to death with a 10 foot rubber cock.
Brown should have been sent off.
Rose should have been booked for his pathetic diving.

IMHO

Wouldn't dispute too much of the above Mick, just the luck bit is my issue today. Yeah luck plays it's part but, I'll accept the woodwork elements were unlucky however, we were the architects of the bad luck at the back and it is the same old story. To others that say 'oh don't worry we'll improve it, what about all the good bits etc' is dancing around the critical faults that cost us points more often than not, it happened again and needs to be addressed as a priority. Signings have come in, I hope they're definitely what and who Poch wanted and needs to solve such a massive weakness that hamstrings us all the time.
Spot on about Larsson, total fucking prick.
 
Wouldn't dispute too much of the above Mick, just the luck bit is my issue today. Yeah luck plays it's part but, I'll accept the woodwork elements were unlucky however, we were the architects of the bad luck at the back and it is the same old story. To others that say 'oh don't worry we'll improve it, what about all the good bits etc' is dancing around the critical faults that cost us points more often than not, it happened again and needs to be addressed as a priority. Signings have come in, I hope they're definitely what and who Poch wanted and needs to solve such a massive weakness that hamstrings us all the time.
Spot on about Larsson, total fucking prick.
not too sure how anyone can train, practice or legislate against Kanes OG................
Their goal. 99 times out of a hundred that would never have made it
I'm not trying to make excuses. its just my perspective on what I saw.
 
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I'm quite happy now, the result was poor but unjust, a team isn't going to score two past us with no possession and one shot on target very often. Honestly don't think I've enjoyed watching us play like this for a while, some glorious football on show, and I'm really positive for the Europa league game now, the more we play this system the more clinical we will become. I know it's been overly pushed now but it is great to see a clear style of play. We walked out onto that pitch today and bullied them off the ball for 70 minutes, we did knacker out a bit after that but that intensity over 90 minutes is something we will have to be patient for, I recall alot of Southampton s goals against came in the last 20 minutes for the first 6 months Poch was there.
 
I just rewatched the highlights. Whilst we could have scored more and were a bit unlucky with the shots that hit the woodwork, there was nothing unlucky about our defending in the final third, which looked piss poor.

Our midfield did well in restricting their chances but teams don't need many opportunities to score with our back four combos. We need to get Davies, Fazio, Verts and Dier established as our regular defensive line-up.
 
I just rewatched the highlights. Whilst we could have scored more and were a bit unlucky with the shots that hit the woodwork, there was nothing unlucky about our defending in the final third, which looked piss poor.

Our midfield did well in restricting their chances but teams don't need many opportunities to score with our back four combos. We need to get Davies, Fazio, Verts and Dier established as our regular defensive line-up.

Agree, and Walker badly needs to return. He's one of our best players.
 
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