Great! Mine too.Skippy
How come ladies are never wrong? (except some of the ones
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How come ladies are never wrong? (except some of the ones
cretinousgoat
knows)
It goes back to mentality doesn’t it? They just seem such a fragile group and don’t have a high level of confidence in their own or their team mates’ games to keep the ball. A different league but I was watching Lyon against PSG and their players were popping the ball about and keeping it so well against PSG. Sure they ultimately lost, but in the 20/30 minutes before then they had a technical level and confidence so much higher than ours. However there is no reason we shouldn’t be able to play like that.
Sure a lot is about ability but if you are playing for THFC and have aspirations to do well in competitions then you should have the mentality and confidence on top of that to keep the ball in games. For successive years we haven’t had that. Now is that down to the manager (40% perhaps) or the players (60%)? Or is it just about taking responsibility and we as a club don’t want to do that?
Winning that game on penalties should give us great confidence though, more than winning in 90 minutes.
Even when we win it's to our detriment.
120 minutes before the NLD.
Spursy is well and truly back.
120 minutes before the NLD.
Spursy is well and truly back.
Skipp & Gil are making a difference. I thought Skipp had a brilliant game - such energy for a 75-year-old.
I have never understood why teams like Wolves (and probably Burnley) don’t play full strength teams in these games. They aren’t going to go down so why not go full strength and try and win a trophy for their fans.
I did, just had to post one last oneGo to sleep!
I think both Romero and Gil will be fine. Both had some dodgy moments but played well overall.
Coady came on after 9 mins FFS!
....Same lineup that loverboy faced btw. Didn't stop him being responsible for 2 goals did it?
Agree. Need to consider who was partnering Romero, Sanchez is a disaster really
Dier was a disaster vs wolves, chelsea. Maybe Tanganga if Emerson takes over at RB.
Looks like he knows he belongs in the first team. That tackle on Neves in the lead up to our first goal ....tremendous stuff.
We need the likes of Skipp and Tanganga in the team. We need some fight.
Tanguy is brilliant and a nightmare . Who put him marking Dendoncker who is acknowledged as good in the air.
If neither of them can be trusted to do their bit tracking and defending then they can't both play at the same time; it's as simple as that. Even just one of them on the pitch can prove a liability if the oppo play well..... You can't afford luxury players in the EPL.
Jose is irrelevant to this.
You can't pin all that work on one MFer..... Perhaps you "don't know football" either.
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It was 90mins mate. No ET
90 minutes. It went straight to penalties.
Hmmmm, exactly like us, we won't go down, won't get in top 4,so why didt we field strong teams in these minor cup tournaments?
Regardless of who ever we are playing in our next league match.
There were a lot of positives (and some warning signs) to take from last night. There's definitely a blue print there to base future games on.
I watched the highlights on the club's youtube this morning and according to the club's graphics we lined up in a 4-4-1-1. Was it just me who missed that?
I watched the highlights on the club's youtube this morning and according to the club's graphics we lined up in a 4-4-1-1. Was it just me who missed that?
Snachez looked distinctly uncomfortable on the left - or was I imagining it?
You're not alone in thinking that.
Sanchez and Romero is probably our most physical and aggressive CB pair, but they in a lot of ways play the same role and are more comfortable on the right. So playing them together means that one of them will have to play on their weaker side. Dier is more comfortable on the left but isn't as much of a rampaging roaming CB.
I suspect because because we still rightly see the league as the priority as a club while the manager knows he needs to win the cup games too to keep the fans off his back and keep himself in a job. Mind you, that didn’t save Mourinho! (Not advocating that we should have kept him there btw).