What does that tell you about our third string?
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Match Brighton vs Tottenham Hotspur (A) - Thursday 28th December 19:30
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What does that tell you about our third string?
We will get more than 15 goals from them this season and it's the first season in a new system.
How much did the dippers spend on Darwin, Diaz and Gakpo? They are all in their second season of a settled manager's system and look even more toothless. You act like it's easy to magically sign forwards and get 20 goals out of each of them.
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Must admit I did enjoy being able to watch on Amazon without commentary choosing "stadium sound" or whatever.
Was much more like being at the game. No bullshit opinions being pushed by "neutrals". Can just have my own thoughts and opinions.
I didn't need some twat screaming "ohhh what a goal" or whatever when their 3rd went in, nor to generate some kind of negative Spurs story at 4-0. I saw it all myself thanks.
Was much more like being at the game. No bullshit opinions being pushed by "neutrals". Can just have my own thoughts and opinions.
I didn't need some twat screaming "ohhh what a goal" or whatever when their 3rd went in, nor to generate some kind of negative Spurs story at 4-0. I saw it all myself thanks.
Same could be said about the whole team. It really pisses me off when Vic has the ball he stands with it for ages then passes to dier. Allowing the oppo to get real high. The passing at the back has been like that all season with the two cbs and goalie. We rarely seem to want to move the ball quicker upfield or wide. FBs are hidddn do are not available. Still we need one to invert and the other to stay in a 3 at the back. Bit like city do. Having both invert just means it’s all congested in the middle. How many times yday davies is trying to play a little ball in the middle and gets closed down. Having an option to play out wide would help. We seem to be obsessed with passing it in the middle. We need to be switching the play from wing to wing quicker and we need keep FBs wide at times to receive the ball. Our best play and scored a few goals from have been when we have got wide with either fb.
Not really, no.
Like I said, more than once - just a case of "you got what you asked for so stop moaning"
Ha ha ha ha well played, my friend!
Yeah my man, ref didn't lose us that game yesterday, we were atrocious.
I think it was my internet, but my video quality was worse than most dodgy streams last night. Woefully bad and I will never prefer the stream method over the cable method.
Last night told me I would welcome 38 year old James Milner as a squad player. I thought he was the real MoTM last night.
We don’t have anything to beat the press? Have YOU been watching any games. That is ridiculous. None of your original post takes into account the injuries we have. The main ‘problem’ with Angeball is if the squad is thin the players coming in are not good enough to play that way.
Our squad depth (or lack of) has been exposed.
Teams have worked us out? What utter rubbish. People know how Citeh are going to play. “They’ve been worked out”. Aren’t too many teams finishing above them though eh? Why is that? Maybe because they have squad depth. FFS
No one asked for what we got yesterday. Stop being silly
do I need to use my precious time to find posts where people said they would be happy to lose games playing for the win?
After the second half of the Everton match, was yesterday’s result completely unexpected?
I think you're massively mistaken.
If you can't differentiate between playing good football and losing because that's football (Villa) and playing rubbish and deserving to lose (Brighton) and thinking they're the same thing that's on you.
People looked at the circumstances we were under in the Villa game, saw our performance and looked passed the defeat because of such. No one is happy with last night because it wasn't a good performance.
So no. No one is happy with the loss and it isn't an "I told you so" moment you think it so proudly is
What planet are you on?
Without Vicario it would have been double that.
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Against Villa we could easily have conceded 4 headed goals. City scored 3 and v Brighton we were fortunate it was only 4.
We scored twice and could have scored more.
No problem with our "attackers."
Surely you note that the two CBs we played against Brighton were on the wing for Mourinho? And you probably also notice that was two and a half managers ago? This is an indictment of Levy. I love Ben Davies and honestly we can’t ask much more of the guy. But we signed him (basically) a decade ago. Obviously Levy has let things languish and not maintained this squad anywhere near what’s acceptable. (And that’s just me stating the extremely obvious).
I’m of the opinion that this disaster we face regarding a squad that’s not capable is entirely on Levy. The manager has no option here; he could be the greatest manager we’ve ever seen and he still has to roll out players who can’t be sold because nobody else would ever play them. That’s on Levy.
And yes, I’d rather lose the way we did last night than 2-0 with zero attempts on goal and 3 touches in the opposition box. That kind of thing under the previous dinosaurs was fucking awful. No idea what your point is because you keep bringing it up, but to me that stands to reason.
We didn't play rubbish against Brighton though?
I quite enjoyed last night.
We played rubbish against Wolves, Forest and Everton. They were all hard watches.
2 penalties and a one off wordly last night and that was a close competition we may well have won.
Surely you note that my point, was that those 2 coaches played a much more cautious brand of football with a weak defense to protect it.
It wasn't easy on the eye, but we rarely went 4-0 down either.
Swings and round abouts. People really seem to struggle to understand how bad our defense was after the end of Toby and Jan. It doesn't matter if we had players who's favoured postion was CB, they were terrible CB's. They were no better than the FB's we had to pick yesteday, And beyond that, we had a totally washed up Lloris behid them throwing the ball in his own net.
Our players are passive and naive. It is because lots of them are young and new to the league. They need to learn the hard way and fast and grow a pair. Can they do it?