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But we were also something like the highest scoring team with the second best defensive record in the PL last season with Lamela and Eriksen starting just about every game. You seem to treat the exception as the rule and the rule as the exception instead of the other way around.
The idea that starting Eriksen on the left cost us the win when we conceded from a free kick given away by Wanyama centrally is completely fucking ridiculous.
You zoom in on Wanyama? Why not zoom in on the whole move, not just the free kick?
Lamela LOST THE BALL and put us under pressure. As usual with back to goal he was stripped like candy from a baby.
Him and Eriksen do that all the time.
When you play both Eriksen and Lamela you risk this.
I'm not a risk taker.
What was my proposition? To play Dembele there. Would Dembele have been harder to get the ball off? Like Lamela was?
Let's say he was. Dembele lost the challenge. Got muscled off the ball like Lamela did. Would Dembele defending the free kick have added more protection than Eriksen or Lamela?
Lamela lost the ball in the final third LEADING to the free kick. Nobody ever watches like I do. They zoom in on one free kick. I zoom in on pressure.
When you mention goals, we risk being the old Spurs. I called them cricket scores. Chaotic games with lots of goals. That won't get you above the Gooners e wry year.
All of our embarrassments have coincided with Eriksen and Lamela starting.
On paper Janssen should score more than Eriksen or Lamela. I don't think adding his strength and goals and putting a more solid player in Dembele further forward will negatively impact our average goal scoring.
But it will impact our goals against. I just gently reminded the board that we haven't won a game in 5 of our last attempts.
This part is important: That first half we were under pressure. It's a miracle we only gave one away. Do you IGNORE THAT FACT? Do you only blame Wanysma for the free kick? Or do you think like I do and ask why were we under so much pressure and how can we alleviate that? Dembele is a calming influence on our team. Janssen was a Catalyst. The second half was also helped by Poch's fitness regime.
It seems like you all want more of the same!? Want Dembeke to give the free kick away instead of Wanyama? Because there is nothing Dembele can do with Eriksen on one side and Lamela on the other with Alli mincing around like he has been recently.
Nobody ever watches like I do.
1. Conceit and pretentiousness are unbecoming.You zoom in on Wanyama? Why not zoom in on the whole move, not just the free kick?
Lamela LOST THE BALL and put us under pressure. As usual with back to goal he was stripped like candy from a baby.
Him and Eriksen do that all the time.
When you play both Eriksen and Lamela you risk this.
I'm not a risk taker.
What was my proposition? To play Dembele there. Would Dembele have been harder to get the ball off? Like Lamela was?
Let's say he was. Dembele lost the challenge. Got muscled off the ball like Lamela did. Would Dembele defending the free kick have added more protection than Eriksen or Lamela?
Lamela lost the ball in the final third LEADING to the free kick. Nobody ever watches like I do. They zoom in on one free kick. I zoom in on pressure.
When you mention goals, we risk being the old Spurs. I called them cricket scores. Chaotic games with lots of goals. That won't get you above the Gooners e wry year.
All of our embarrassments have coincided with Eriksen and Lamela starting.
On paper Janssen should score more than Eriksen or Lamela. I don't think adding his strength and goals and putting a more solid player in Dembele further forward will negatively impact our average goal scoring.
But it will impact our goals against. I just gently reminded the board that we haven't won a game in 5 of our last attempts.
This part is important: That first half we were under pressure. It's a miracle we only gave one away. Do you IGNORE THAT FACT? Do you only blame Wanysma for the free kick? Or do you think like I do and ask why were we under so much pressure and how can we alleviate that? Dembele is a calming influence on our team. Janssen was a Catalyst. The second half was also helped by Poch's fitness regime.
It seems like you all want more of the same!? Want Dembeke to give the free kick away instead of Wanyama? Because there is nothing Dembele can do with Eriksen on one side and Lamela on the other with Alli mincing around like he has been recently.
Don't think Gibbs is a real fan. Saying he'd have played Dembele suggests he didn't realised he's got a 6 match ban.
Clearly a troll, comes in spouting his 'beasts' nonsense whenever results don't go our way. Then blaming the likes of Lamela, Eriksen now Alli for being too weedy. Has he not seen how ripped Lamela is? :lameladisgust::eriksenlol:
Your personality type summed up in a sentence.Lamela lost the ball in the final third LEADING to the free kick. Nobody ever watches like I do. They zoom in on one free kick. I zoom in on pressure.
Except for when Poch has tried doing that, and it didn't work out particularly well - eventually leading to Dembele cementing his place at CM and being one of our best performers. But no, fucking with that would be a great idea because we conceded a free kick that one time last week, when Dembele wasn't even on the pitch.On paper Janssen should score more than Eriksen or Lamela. I don't think adding his strength and goals and putting a more solid player in Dembele further forward will negatively impact our average goal scoring.
Nonsense. And who, pray tell us, would be playing at CM when you move Dembele forward?But it will impact our goals against. I just gently reminded the board that we haven't won a game in 5 of our last attempts.
Spurs 3-0 Manchester UnitedIt seems like you all want more of the same!? Want Dembeke to give the free kick away instead of Wanyama? Because there is nothing Dembele can do with Eriksen on one side and Lamela on the other with Alli mincing around like he has been recently.
Its called the me against the world syndrome!If Gibbsy wasn't such a fucking headcase, it would be infuriating.
Kind of is already. I have absolutely never seen someone with a stronger conviction that everyone else is wrong.
When Gibbsy sees the team line up before the match...
(yes, a full version would be good, but meh)