Virtually every team has had problems defending at Loftus Road - Liverpool deserved to lose heavily earlier in the season and somehow scraped a win.
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Virtually every team has had problems defending at Loftus Road - Liverpool deserved to lose heavily earlier in the season and somehow scraped a win.
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Obviously Ramsey said get it up and over the back four.
That was the be all and end all of their game...hoof.
Not too mention in the 2nd half they used the sun to their advantage with the hoofing, whilst we only capitalised with the free kick.
Any back four will find it hard to defend against a constant rain of balls over the top to Zamora and Austin.
We hit the bar, they hit the bar.
Apart from that I think Green had just as much to do as Lloris did.
Before we played them they had lost 5 times at home and we 4.
We have played there 6 times in the EPL and only won once before yesterday.
Oh, and Woolwich only managed to beat them 2-1 too ( with no Ferdinand, Caulker going off injured & Sandro after an Hour and they then they bagged 2 goals) in a similar game to us, and Liverpool scraped a win 3-2.
We had a bit of luck and they did. I wish Eriksen's curler would have gone in.
What pissed me off is Ramsey claiming that they were robbed with the two penalty decisions. None were clear cut penalties. After they magnified it x 20 I still struggle to see the contact Lloris made on his 'heel' w I know that if you are hurt you do not roll around moving the part that is so severely fucked...cunt.
As for the 'handball'..you cannot be serious. They were not stone wall penalties and would have been very harsh.
The way they're both scrutinised on MOTD was tragic just to fill time. They also had to make a claim for the first goal being offside ffs and then tell you it wasn't when there was no fucking doubt anyway.
While I am at it, what is an un natural position for the arms? Some players put their arms behind the backs when defending a cross from a winger. That's not a natural position and if it hits those arms will that not be a pen all day long as the arms are in an un natural position? What about if it its fired against your hand when they are protecting your balls in a wall ? A natural position would be at you side would it not, so pena all day long?
FFS, raising your arms in the air when you jump is natural. You cannot jump otherwise. Raising your hands to protect your face when the ball is whacked at pace towards it form a yard is instinctive, both are the most natural position ever for arms.
That was the be all and end all of their game...hoof.
Not too mention in the 2nd half they used the sun to their advantage with the hoofing, whilst we only capitalised with the free kick.
Any back four will find it hard to defend against a constant rain of balls over the top to Zamora and Austin.
We hit the bar, they hit the bar.
Apart from that I think Green had just as much to do as Lloris did.
Before we played them they had lost 5 times at home and we 4.
We have played there 6 times in the EPL and only won once before yesterday.
Oh, and Woolwich only managed to beat them 2-1 too ( with no Ferdinand, Caulker going off injured & Sandro after an Hour and they then they bagged 2 goals) in a similar game to us, and Liverpool scraped a win 3-2.
We had a bit of luck and they did. I wish Eriksen's curler would have gone in.
What pissed me off is Ramsey claiming that they were robbed with the two penalty decisions. None were clear cut penalties. After they magnified it x 20 I still struggle to see the contact Lloris made on his 'heel' w I know that if you are hurt you do not roll around moving the part that is so severely fucked...cunt.
As for the 'handball'..you cannot be serious. They were not stone wall penalties and would have been very harsh.
The way they're both scrutinised on MOTD was tragic just to fill time. They also had to make a claim for the first goal being offside ffs and then tell you it wasn't when there was no fucking doubt anyway.
While I am at it, what is an un natural position for the arms? Some players put their arms behind the backs when defending a cross from a winger. That's not a natural position and if it hits those arms will that not be a pen all day long as the arms are in an un natural position? What about if it its fired against your hand when they are protecting your balls in a wall ? A natural position would be at you side would it not, so pena all day long?
FFS, raising your arms in the air when you jump is natural. You cannot jump otherwise. Raising your hands to protect your face when the ball is whacked at pace towards it form a yard is instinctive, both are the most natural position ever for arms.
Bentaleb was so close to Austin when he shot that his follow through caught him in the chest - that can't be considered deliberate hand ball
No commentator even mentioned that.
He had his arms up because Austins shin was about to go straight through his stomach/chest. You let someone kick you in the chest and see if you wont fold your stomach in and try to parry with your elbows. Can't be any more natural, it's fucking instinct.
I think that case should never be a penalty. I could see it given for Lloris though, he touches him slightly on his foot, but honestly the guy threw himself flapping to the ground like an injured swan. Looks like a dive all day for the ref when you overdo it like that.
The only trouble is he could rarely can do it for 90 mins and was always injured.
Start with him every game strong and HAVE to bring him off thenhave those recurring injuries or bring him on nice and strong when they are tiring, manage him well and improve his fitness/liabiltiy to injury?
If you look at the amount of times he has tired at 70 mins and then been missing because of injury over the years, then this season has been better for him.
He's only been injured once this season early on in September ( which is a fucking miracle) and has looked much fitter, leaner and improved his game when he does play.
I think Poch realised his fitness was an issue and he suffered a lot of injuries. He is rebuilding him obviously and being very careful with him.
He has been managed very well imo.
edit: when MP took over I thought that Dembele would probably be gone. I just could not see how he could fit in with the managers game, i.e., press/fast passing/mobility.
However, Moussa is still here so he obviously thinks he can.
It's early days yet.
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I've seen loads of replays of the Lloris one and still can't tell for certain that he actually touched Isla at all.
From the refs point of view Lloris jumps and commits himself - if Isla just side steps him, he has a shot at an unguarded goal.........why not just score?......the fact he didn't suggests he just slipped or rolled his ankle
One thing completely unmentioned was the possible foul on Dier before Austin hit the bar - the commentators just seemed to completely ignore that one.
Dier goes to play the ball and his leg is stopped and he gets knocked forward onto his knees from behind/LHS. Clear foul IMV
http://footyroom.com/queens-park-rangers-1-2-tottenham-hotspur-2015-03/
from 1.49 its seen clearly - and amazingly the ref had perfect sight of it.....
that save of Austins was awesome BTW, WTF was their main goal threat doing back there?
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understands the game. I don't disagree with him for the sake of it.He wants us to have a defensive midfielder and thinks that will stop goals raining in. I've told him several times, you can't ask your midfield to press and defend space, it's impossible.
Because I genuinely doubt
He wants us to have a defensive midfielder and thinks that will stop goals raining in. I've told him several times, you can't ask your midfield to press and defend space, it's impossible.
Defence seems to be a sore spot for us right now. When you look at teams with extreame pressing systems like us and the masters of it Barcelona the defence is based on aggressive ball winning from the front, every player pushing up behind the next to deny the opposition any time.
This requires players with great tactical discipline, they need to know when to push forward to win the ball back in unison with teammates and when to fall back when the lines are broken, e.g open counter attack.
Sometimes in defensive situations I have noticed certain players trying to press when they should not have and thus leaving space in behind. I don't think our issues generally come from bad individual errors (although we have seen some recently) but mainly from the team shape not always being right and leaving us exposed so buying players won't solve the issue unless we get real quality, I think it's more experience with the system, a few years and we will get it right more often than not.
Pepe Guardiola said of his Barca 'we are a horrible team without the ball' and his Barca were far stronger defensively than us denying the opposition any time on the ball. All pressing teams are vulnerable to the counter and the ball over the top, we don't have Barca's players but we must use their example of how to solve the natural defensive issues that come with pressing and that's far more than get a nice centre back or defensive midfielder.
That's being said I wouldn't refuse Schneiderlin.