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The Europa League being a distraction/tiring is just bullshit. Once our players are told this , they start to believe it. We've enough players to be able to balance an approach for all the competitions we're in.
Sounds like you're old school like me. I remember the 2nd division season and although I was devastated when we got relegated, the atmosphere at matches was amazing.
Hang in there. The way football's going, they'll end up having to pay us to go to the games.
You're right Dan, it's disgusting.
We seem to attract players that seem to believe they have made the big time once at THFC. They become all poncie like their hair cuts. They really can't be asked.
Only Chiriches was the problem today. He was so bad that I would never play him again. It disrupted the whole of the team from kick off. He was the hole that sunk the ship. I've never felt this way about a player before.For the first time since Torres went to Chelsea I've seen a worse striker performance than the ones he put in. Whenever someone passed the ball to Ade, particularly in the first game, it was an immediate loss of the ball, no matter how precise it was. I'm not one of those people who always pour hate on Ade, but it has to be said that this game was absolutely dreadful, and he hasn't had a good one this season (not even against QPR, when the rest of the team performed). Playing with ten men and no striker would probably be better, cause then at least people wouldn't waste possession trying to set him up.
That, and too little direct movement into dangerous positions from our AMs made our game totally toothless. Lamela and Eriksen should both play, but they can't be two of three AMs. And taking Chadli off, which is the one moving into space and into the box, was a mistake, imo (and I had him captaining my fantasy team this week).
Lloris: 6
Mostly ok, but could possibly have commanded area better on the goal.
Dier: 6
Ok defensively, did very little going forwards.
Kaboul: 7
Best game he's played for a long time. Defensive control, did a good job on defensive set pieces, had better crosses going forwards than anyone else in either team.
Chiriches: 3
Wasn't always completely horrible in his defensive work, but the way he kept giving away easy corners as if they don't matter cost us at least one point.
Rose: 6
Another decent game by Rose. Still needs to improve his crossing, but doesn't have a lot to hit in the box, usually just Chadli and a static Ade.
Capoue: 8
Our best player. Good at winning the ball, good at distributing it.
Dembele: 5
Lost the ball in dangerous position at times, trying to dribble. Wasted a good counter attack opportunity by dribbling. At times he's slow. But he also showed great ball winning skills, and that he can pass the ball quickly at times.
Eriksen: 4
Tried to make the killer balls, but usually not precise enough. Hasn't been in his best form this season, and showed that today too. Terrible set pieces.
Lamela: 6
Is trying to make stuff happens, and the more the team struggles the harder he tries. Ended up trying to hard to do stuff on his own. Good effort, but needs to get more lethal. The only one of our front four that seems to quite consistently try the high press thing. Doesn't work well as long as the others do f... all.
Chadli: 4
Took a long time to get involved. Made a few good runs into the box later in the game, but was substituted during his best period of the game.
Adebayor: 0
His score reflects his number of positive involvements. Seems like he's doing some running to get in positions to receive the ball, but is so sloppy/bad in his first touches that even though his team mates hits him with accurate passes he immediately loses it. On through balls he's too slow, on lobbed balls he's too weak. We would be better off with no striker than with Adebayor at the moment. He needs to get back to his form, or we're farked.
Paulinho: 3
Had some bad involvements, a couple of terrible passes. Makes decent runs though, into dangerous positions. Should be played as one of the starting AMs, because of his ability to run into space.
Soldado: 3
He looks like a fish out of water at times. Had our best chance though, being at the end of a Kaboul cross. Showed good movement in the box on that occassion.
Lennon: 3
Moved about, as usual. Seemed a bit more comfortable than he has lately when he got to play as a pure right midfielder. As usual, his deliveries provide nothing.
Almost the same team?
It can't get any worse - posative?
That's how it was done years ago. Players that were keen wanted to play every game. That's when men were men and chairman were faceless.
