Nottingham Forest VS Tottenham Hotspur. Sunday the 28th August 2022. City Ground 16:30

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Shape is frustrating at times but we limited them to few chances in the end. Could have had several goals ourselves. Ultimately not too bad, 3 good points away from home, but you'd like us to not look so allergic to possession. Much of it comes from the wide CB's. Thought Davies, Perisic and Son were probably our poorest on the day. Sanchez defended well. Emerson played okay. Both have their limitations. Midfield did some things well and launched lots of dangerous counterattacks. Richarlison is the big plus coming from today.. looks a brilliant fit for our squad and will earn us a lot of points this year.
 
So I wrote this on Twitter;

But it’s okay if Richarlison had suffered a serious injury, because he was doing a few keepy uppy’s and was asking for it 🙄

The responses?

He was taking the piss. You know that so stop trying to defend him.”

Richarlison regularly tries to injure people so he'll get what's coming to him

No it’s not ok if he got injured, it would be fantastic and well deserved!”

“oh wed have loved for that😤

“Yep you’re damn right it’s okay”

“Yep. You said it, he was asking for it.”

“Shame he didn’t”

Weird. People on Twitter are usually friendly and caring.
 
Shape is frustrating at times but we limited them to few chances in the end. Could have had several goals ourselves. Ultimately not too bad, 3 good points away from home, but you'd like us to not look so allergic to possession. Much of it comes from the wide CB's. Thought Davies, Perisic and Son were probably our poorest on the day. Sanchez defended well. Emerson played okay. Both have their limitations. Midfield did some things well and launched lots of dangerous counterattacks. Richarlison is the big plus coming from today.. looks a brilliant fit for our squad and will earn us a lot of points this year.

I think it's quire clear we're missing Romeros passing from the back.

We don't necessarily miss him defensively (as proven) but we definitely miss the other stuff he brings.
 
Seems fair and a more sensible route than threatening to gut them!

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So I wrote this on Twitter;

But it’s okay if Richarlison had suffered a serious injury, because he was doing a few keepy uppy’s and was asking for it 🙄

The responses?

He was taking the piss. You know that so stop trying to defend him.”

Richarlison regularly tries to injure people so he'll get what's coming to him

No it’s not ok if he got injured, it would be fantastic and well deserved!”

“oh wed have loved for that😤

“Yep you’re damn right it’s okay”

“Yep. You said it, he was asking for it.”

“Shame he didn’t”
I just don't understand the mentality of Joe Public. A guy is doing some football skills on a football pitch, the exact thing that we're all paying to watch, and some people want him hurt for it because it's 'disrespectful'? What does that end? Should players only score tap-ins from now on because screamers are disrespectful? Should nut-megs and backheels be fouls? He was doing some keepy-uppies, just as we all wanted to do when we were 4 years old, fell in love with the game, and celebrated when we were finally able to do 10 / 50 / 100 / 1000 (adjust according to personal skill level ;) ) of them without the ball touching the ground. That is absolute grass roots football. Yet he deserves to be hurt for it? What the fuck is wrong with people?
 
Richarlison didn't 'deserve' it or anything like that, but when you showboat at that kind of level, the opposition are going to be highly competitive guys who will not stand for it. I'd expect one of our players to react in exactly the same way, tbh.

Nothing wrong with it. He was just expressing himself!
 
Still feels like we’re lacking a bit of energy and maybe a bit tired after a heavy preseason?

Hoping that we start to rotate in Richarlison, Bissouma, Spence, and Lenglet to give us a bit of an energy bump.

Two more in the window too hopefully.
 
Nothing wrong with it. He was just expressing himself!

I didn't say there was anything inherently wrong with it. He's a footballer having fun with a football. But when you're against hot blooded competitors who want to win the game and assert themselves, expect them to react to showboating.

Again, you will get this reaction vs a vast majority of defenders. They don't enjoy being made to look silly.
 
You can't reason with stupid people.

We weren't at our best; and haven't really been all season so far yet sit level with City having not got out of second gear. The issues in the squad aren't getting fixed in this short a space of time. The football will get better - we could have scored six at least today - and some of you seem to have forgotten that we did paste a few teams with conte ball last year.

It's a process. We are +7 on comparable fixtures. Spammers next. Come on you spurs.
Exactly, just think when we’re firing on all cylinders !
 
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