Would have taken a point before the game, but still a bit gutted that we didn't manage to hold on to our lead. Ah well, let's hope we get our own back when we get them back at the Lane.
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I have to say I think Poch did very well that game but he made two mistakes for me:
1) Keeping Ade on the pitch, as we were playing with 10 men because of him
2) It was clear about 10 minutes before the goal that Bentaleb or another midfielder needed to come in, as nobody could challenge Ox as they were all on a yellow. His run created their goal.
That being said, the lineup he played was spot on and the game instructions were perfect as well.
1) Keeping Ade on the pitch, as we were playing with 10 men because of him
2) It was clear about 10 minutes before the goal that Bentaleb or another midfielder needed to come in, as nobody could challenge Ox as they were all on a yellow. His run created their goal.
That being said, the lineup he played was spot on and the game instructions were perfect as well.
an oblique way of looking at things, and whilst I'm sure its valid.................
I would rather it were possession in our favour and them chasing our tails, rather than a reliance on an alert goalkeeper and backs to the wall survival football.
I know we are early into pochettino's tenure - so we must accept the team is adjusting, as well as having to cut our cloth according to our budget and skillset, but I do worry about adopting the same stance against a much better attack that we'll encounter against Chelsea and City.
Still, like everyone else - we have to accept the gulf in talent pool and availability of wealth, and try to minimise the damage, rather than an expansive approach like last season where we shipped goals faster than the titanic took on water, by taking the game to them.
My biggest concern is the diminishing impact of Eriksen, and his waning dead ball skills. His corners are almost farcical. That and Ade's non existent impact.
We conceded because Lamela missed his clearance nothing to do with Ades performance. They could not score before or after the mistake. We frustrated and teased them. They weren't good enough to open us up. Let's remember they didn't beat any of the top teams last season. We did a number on them and they struggled as they do against any decent side. The worm has turned?
I feel Eriksen is faulting a liittle since the emergence or Lamela. I feel they can both play in the same team but at the moment tthe team needs time to adjust to accomadate both players.
doesn't explain his dead ball technique though.................
I have to agree with both those points and there wasn't really any reason not to do them. Certainly the swap in midfield should have occurred fairy early for the reason you mentioned, I think Capoue looked tired second half too.
. He can knock in a free kick when his in the mood which demonstrates he can kick a ball. Although they are different players they both offer a quality that can potentially be the match winner.
I just feel Lamelas is rapidly Improving which may create preasure on Eriksens game, that preasure wasn't there before. Suddenly he has to think about his game . Maybe I'm wrong and alls well but I've noticed his disappeared a bit lately
Sorry, didn't realise I had mate, must have just accidentally hit it dragging my screen down.
My bad, thought they booked him, classic moment that I remember the other best bits clearly thank god
I didn't go but a little bit of me died watching that celebration. The sky coverage of the celebration was immense. Just a sea of dick heads falling over each other. #scenes
Watched the whole match. Can't exactly show a video of the whole game to prove my point, but a heat map does show where he was, so that serves the purpose. I trust what I see, but human memory is entirely fallible. Hence hard numbers to supplement.
I really dont buy into the "gulf in talent" line.
If they had Lamela and Eriksen, we´d be shitting it....Welbeck, Merteseker, Kosielny, Gibbs....how are the likes of them any better than us?
As with SAF, Wenger is the glue holding together an average to decent squad, and if he left I dont think they would be a top 4 side at all.
Possession in our favour means nothing, we've dominated possession in most games under avb and Poch and the football hasn't been great for most of that time. I think the big difference between avb and Poch, that was illustrated by this game, is that while they both have a style of football that they adhere to, Poch is able to use a plan b, to change the style of play to suit the match in question.
For me that is a very encouraging sign.
It was obvious that if we went there and tried to control possession we would get beaten, and that our best chance of taking something from the game was to play on the counter.
May I ask - how did Poch 'change the style and formation' on Saturday seeing that he used virtually the same staring 11 for the 6th week running? Serious question.