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Weird, I thought paulinho was pretty poor. Multiple times his poor first touch was our undoing in the final third.
Thats a fair point about flying to Ruskkie land and then playing 2.5 days afterwards. We looked flat, however maybe AVB should have played more players that did not play in Moscow?We looked tired, predictable and apathetic today. For all the talk about how big and strong our team is this season, I lost count of the number of times we got muscled off the ball or lost 50/50 challenges. They were just much more committed and organised.
The system isn't good enough. As I said after the Chelsea game, I don't like the Paulinho/Dembele partnership in CM, our passing is too slow and we are far too open for the counter-attack. And I'm starting to lose patience with the inverted wingers thing too; at least Townsend did go on the outside a few times today but even then he was on his weaker foot and we had Defoe in the box. Naughton offers nothing attacking wise, we desperately miss Rose on that side. Also I have very little confidence in Dawson, I said at the start of the season that he probably shouldn't be the long-term solution and I'm convinced now.
Also I wonder if we should just give up on the Europa League, I don't think we are capable of flying away to places like Russia in midweek and then bounce back to put up a real fight on the weekend.
It's a meat and veg home game, to lose it 0-3 is shocking, terrible, unheard of - AVB hasn't got it - get rid of him
lamela should never be ahead of holtby in any list even the sub list, his not ready yet.
the whole team, almost bar none were a shadow of anything we have seen so far. Quite how we managed to look so poor across the board, to a team like West Ham is a total mystery. Eriksen looked lost and dembele and paulinho were making poor passing choices throughout the game.Weird, I thought paulinho was pretty poor. Multiple times his poor first touch was our undoing in the final third.
We looked tired, predictable and apathetic today. For all the talk about how big and strong our team is this season, I lost count of the number of times we got muscled off the ball or lost 50/50 challenges. They were just much more committed and organised.
The system isn't good enough. As I said after the Chelsea game, I don't like the Paulinho/Dembele partnership in CM, our passing is too slow and we are far too open for the counter-attack. And I'm starting to lose patience with the inverted wingers thing too; at least Townsend did go on the outside a few times today but even then he was on his weaker foot and we had Defoe in the box. Naughton offers nothing attacking wise, we desperately miss Rose on that side. Also I have very little confidence in Dawson, I said at the start of the season that he probably shouldn't be the long-term solution and I'm convinced now.
Also I wonder if we should just give up on the Europa League, I don't think we are capable of flying away to places like Russia in midweek and then bounce back to put up a real fight on the weekend.
We looked tired, predictable and apathetic today. For all the talk about how big and strong our team is this season, I lost count of the number of times we got muscled off the ball or lost 50/50 challenges. They were just much more committed and organised.
The system isn't good enough. As I said after the Chelsea game, I don't like the Paulinho/Dembele partnership in CM, our passing is too slow and we are far too open for the counter-attack. And I'm starting to lose patience with the inverted wingers thing too; at least Townsend did go on the outside a few times today but even then he was on his weaker foot and we had Defoe in the box. Naughton offers nothing attacking wise, we desperately miss Rose on that side. Also I have very little confidence in Dawson, I said at the start of the season that he probably shouldn't be the long-term solution and I'm convinced now.
Also I wonder if we should just give up on the Europa League, I don't think we are capable of flying away to places like Russia in midweek and then bounce back to put up a real fight on the weekend.