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tommythetank said:
Not sure why your so offended, dont think I've been that harsh on any player, Lucas excepted maybe...
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I’m not offended

Just sick of all the negativity on here

We’re not playing well
Things aren’t great
The season should never have been restarted
I’m just trying to make the best of it and you giving Lucas a 1 was ridiculous
He wasn’t great but he made an effort

We move on to Bournemouth and then the Scum

Leicester will hopefully fuck them up tomorrow

No problems


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If I am brutally honest, and the truth is pretty brutal for those of us that don't just see football as a result on teletext, I think since the restart, we have actually seen some meagre evidence of Mourinho-ism finally having some kind of effect. But it's so incredibly marginal. I even checked the X/G's (which give an unbiased measure of the quality & quantity of chances) and even they are struggling to pick it out. If you compare the corresponding games, earlier in the season we had a 4.22 XG against, this last 4 games 4.6 so it's actually eeked up by 0.38. Our XG for has gone from 4.5 in the corresponding games down to 4.3.

So the metrics say we're actually marginally worse in terms of chances we're allowing and marginally worse in chances in chances we are creating.

Bottom line, if there is any improvement, it's slim fucking pickings.

Sissoko, Aurier and Moura form an access of dim on the right side, which is like one of those black holes in the galaxy, anything that drifts into it's nebulous orbit, gets sucked into an oblivion vortex:

This shows how reliant we were on the left side, despite the fact that Aurier is our de-facto attacking FB:

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Sissoko's ability trundle out of reach of anyone looking for an out ball is truly world class, and whilst Winks was at least a fair bit more available (received 52 Sissoko 28), he too can play peek a boo at times, and just as when Poch reached for this double pillock pivot, the result was a midfield that struggled to join the back to front of the team with any real incision.

Will we ever see a real midfield again? Does Mourinho's white board only have 4231 on it?

Fuck knows, finding it hard to care.
 
We allowed far too many free kicks and corners to allow Everton to pump the ball in but despite expecting 1 of them to cause problems we coped well. Having Toby back allowed much better distribution from the back. Biggest disappointment was the attack that again did not produce. A deflected goal all we had to show and we really need to improve on that.
 
Lloris - - Easy saves.

Aurier - - Neither good nor bad. Seems like he was instructed to play a bit more deeper.
Alderweireld -Very good
Dier - - Very good
Davies - Ok

Sissoko - Very good. MOTM?
Winks -Very good. MOTM?
Lo Celso -Didn't do what he's supposed to do but he tried.
Lucas -Speedy, Caused them problems
Son - Not a good game at all
Kane -Not his best game.
 
Lloris 6
Aurier 6
Alderweireld 7
Dier 7
Davies 7
Lo celso 7
Winks 7
Sissoko 5
Son 5
Lucas 6
Kane 6

Actually think Lamela has looked sharp when he has come on lately
 
Bazali said:
I’m not offended

Just sick of all the negativity on here

We’re not playing well
Things aren’t great
The season should never have been restarted
I’m just trying to make the best of it and you giving Lucas a 1 was ridiculous
He wasn’t great but he made an effort

We move on to Bournemouth and then the Scum

Leicester will hopefully fuck them up tomorrow

No problems


:dierpochhug:
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Yeah lucas trys hard, great in the air but his passing was woeful tonight. A 5 is probably fairer
 
spursmalc said:
We allowed far too many free kicks and corners to allow Everton to pump the ball in but despite expecting 1 of them to cause problems we coped well. Having Toby back allowed much better distribution from the back. Biggest disappointment was the attack that again did not produce. A deflected goal all we had to show and we really need to improve on that.
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One thing is clear to me Sanchez is not good enough of a footballer to play for us as anything other than cover. The problem is his physical attributes are desperately need. Toby ad and Dier will get found out by quicker players we need to recruit a fast strong ball playing CB. They don't grow on trees mind.
 
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