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I don't know if it is considered bad form on these boards to mention an opposing player in a positive way but I couldn't help thinking yesterday how much I wish Spurs had a player like James Ward-Prowse.
Well neves is also really fucking good.He's a good player but let's be real, every half decent player that comes up against this midfield are gonna look good.
You're gonna see people cream their pants over Neves on Sunday, watch.
In terms of his ability to make a crossing pass or a shot from distance it would be really good to have a player with that skill set.He's a good player but let's be real, every half decent player that comes up against this midfield are gonna look good.
You're gonna see people cream their pants over Neves on Sunday, watch.
the problem here is sanchez, he is marking romero's man
then yes, winks could have solved the problem
and kulu should have controlled the number 15
Had one. No video but when I clicked the play button extra browser windows popped upYou need an ad-blocker.... I had none of that crap.
Why does conte leave him on for the full 90?He is fucking shocking bottom half player at the very best.
It is like playing with a 10 year old in central midfield
I’d like to know what training routines we do as our possesion play is shocking! We don’t look couched at all. We only create chances if the opposition fuck up or Kane / Moura make some thing happen. How comes soton with players like Armstrong and orereo can play better football than us and create proper chances. You can’t tell me they have better players.They were only better because we were so abjectly, dismally inept at passing the ball to another member of our own team, as we have been for ages.
It's just simply unforgivable that KWP was playing and starring for them last night and we had donkey Emerson playing for us, KWP came through our fucking academy and had been at the club since he was a kid, what the actual fuck is that about!?
This fucking club...so frustrating!
Totally agree keeps persisting with playing crap players or ones not suitable for his defensive system. I can’t remember many games where we have come out and taken the game to the opposition. It’s just the bad days of Maureen but with even more defenders. Wouldn’t it be nice to come out like soton did especially at home and batter the opposition? We just a slow defensive gane and wait for some magic to come off at the front which invariably it doesn’t. It’s like people use ti say under Jose we basically have to score from every one of the very few chances we actually create. It was sustainable under him and it isn’t now. Wonder how we would play under say Ralf? What would be his tactics if he was in charge of us. Conte May have passion but doesn’t appear to be transferring it to the players yet.I just don’t know why we are persisting with a back 3. We don’t have the players for it. I’d rather sera 442 or even a 451.
Not 100% convinced on Conte yet. Makes some fucking odd selections and is slow to change things.
That was so pathetic ! We had free kick in their half and what do we do ? We go back and he gets caught. Can’t remember what the score was at the time. However whenever we have a throw in , free kick or oppo to go forward we always go back. How many times do you see our players get the ball and then turn backwards to our own goal instead of moving forward?Sorry, Winks turnover after our free kick that resulted in a 2 on 1 was a better scoring chance than allowing 2 crosses from 30+ yards out. Winks is just lucky his didn't turn into a goal.
Totally agree keeps persisting with playing crap players or ones not suitable for his defensive system. I can’t remember many games where we have come out and taken the game to the opposition. It’s just the bad days of Maureen but with even more defenders. Wouldn’t it be nice to come out like soton did especially at home and batter the opposition? We just a slow defensive gane and wait for some magic to come off at the front which invariably it doesn’t. It’s like people use ti say under Jose we basically have to score from every one of the very few chances we actually create. It was sustainable under him and it isn’t now. Wonder how we would play under say Ralf? What would be his tactics if he was in charge of us. Conte May have passion but doesn’t appear to be transferring it to the players yet.
Good enough to totally outplay us and create umpteen chances?They aren't that good though, today was an outlier by all accounts and they still relied on two bits of quality from JWP to make the difference.
Good enough to totally outplay us and create umpteen chances?
they've also been on the other end of some terrible defeats in recent seasons .... that probably increases expectation of a easy win, rightly or wronglyYeah I disagree with that. They're a good team, not long ago they outplayed City and were good value for a draw. This was always going to be a hard game against a side who press extremely well and have nothing to fear at all. Southampton is almost never an easy game, even when we absolutely battered them it was more a case of the game running away from them than it being a pushover.
They play physical, energetic football and have the best set piece man in world football and a proper handful of a CF in Broja. I went to watch them at St Mary's earlier in the season and they completely dominated Leeds. A lot of our fans went in to this one thinking it would be a walkover when it was always a fucking hard game against a proper PL side who are ALWAYS game.
We've had a lack of on field leadership for more than 20 years.not just lack of leadership though, lack of football intellect from fucking midfielders who dont have the savvy to look behind to see if theres any danger. fucking braindead shit. shouldnt need to have their arses wiped by someone who has the bottle to open their mouth and talk to teammates.
Our fans are melting. Last night is not the be all and end all, nor were our good performances vs Brighton, Leicester.
United aren't very good given what they've spent, Woolwich and West Ham are decent on their day. We're not a great amount better or worse than any of them. Top four is attainable, we have a great coach, some excellent players, some who can waver between 2 and 8/10 depending on which way the wind blows. For some people the last game is the only one that's ever been played.
I don't know what's going to happen, nor does anybody else, but I'm going to try to enjoy the rest of the season and avoid all this aching over Emerson and Harry Winks.