Johnson has to stay a sub for a few games I think. He’s much better being used like that. Bentancur seems to be out of form. Vicariou is going to be targeted henceforth and we need to be more switched on about helping him out. Hojbjerg should never start.
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Match Everton - Spurs - Feb 3rd - 12:30pm KO
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It does. As I've said before, I remember Klopp's Liverpool giving up leads/plenty of goals etc in the early days, so some defensive frailty doesn't panic me too much. Obviously though, it has to be improved eventually.
Need to start adding referee decisions to stats of game. Fuck me that ref was weak.
Consume less UK media.... Romero is quality.
Once they stopped fouling we weren't in any trouble from corners. The Ref needed to get hold of it earlier.
Godfrey should've walked too. That was downright abuse of the linesman then minutes later he dives like a twat and was so obvious to everybody. But no.
Very true!
It’s the frustration of how and when we conceded that I think sticks in the craw more than anything! So close to all three points and then a couple of brain farts cost us.
Oliver never gives us anything.
Par for the course if he's been shouting for 90 mins.......
I'm watching Plymouths game, it's a good distraction, Phillips and Devine both started.
This is why Spursy is a fair assessment.
That and going out of both cups early doors again.
Until we stop bottling games like this it doesn't matter how good the football is or who the manager is, nothing is changing.
Six goals conceded in three PL games.
No side can afford that amount of goals being conceded and expect to challenge for silverware. Once we have the options of Sarr and Bissouma i think that rate will drop off.
I thought as a whole the back four played well, Vic will only get better and at the end of the day a point away against any team with three key players missing is a good point.
I would have taken that before kick off.
Ange won't be happy with the way we dropped off, but Gill and Skipp could have done more, especially Skipp.
No side can afford that amount of goals being conceded and expect to challenge for silverware. Once we have the options of Sarr and Bissouma i think that rate will drop off.
I thought as a whole the back four played well, Vic will only get better and at the end of the day a point away against any team with three key players missing is a good point.
I would have taken that before kick off.
Ange won't be happy with the way we dropped off, but Gill and Skipp could have done more, especially Skipp.
Do you leave on the starters for the last 10-15 minutes to see it out? There’s a serious drop non quality once we start running the bench.
Problem largely lies with the wingers, outside of the clear holes in the squad due to injury, suspension and national team duties. None of our wingers are able to take on their man and beat them, and that means that we're relying on the overlap run from the fullbacks to get into the box, or the wingers pass it backwards. The other problem is that they can't hold the ball up so the only time they're actually effective is when they receive it in space. For a team that relies on wide forward play for chance creation our wingers aren't anywhere near good enough
Absolutely.
Conceding late is basically a punch in the gut. If they equalised in the 75th minute and we held on we'd all probably feel slightly better and that we got a hard earned point.
I hope we can just learn from it.
The subs were a problem today, but much of that will come down to options available and fitness. Particularly in midfield, where Bentancur, Maddison, and Sarr all have reasonable explanations for why their minutes would be limited to an extent. I’ll be concerned about Ange if it continues as Biss comes back and the other midfielders get back to their peak levels, but I’m not at that point. Much more concerned about defending set pieces.
Couldn’t agree more. Like most of us, I love Ange and everything he’s doing. We see a weakness. I trust they’ll do the right thing and figure it all out in time.
His track record has shown that to be the case.
The second year under him is where it’s at.
If we’re not making significant progress on these things by this time next season, then we really have to look at it seriously
