In week 6?Account for yourself.
I'll be happy to at the end of the season
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In week 6?Account for yourself.
It's the PL's closest top-5 ever (to this point in the season). I still think we can make the top 4 this year, but it's going to be a bloody slog, and our attacking midfield will need to more consistently pull their weight for us to do it.
The three behind the striker is where we need to see improvements imo. The likes of Son, Lamela, Alli, Eriksen and Sissoko are all good players, who on their day can do amazing stuff, but none of them are absolutely top-class, not right now at least, of course in the future they could still improve a lot. At the moment though they lack consistency and dare I say it... just a bit of extra quality as well.and our attacking midfield will need to more consistently pull their weight for us to do it.
Payet, maybe, although he's also over-rated due to lack of competition. Mahrez 2016 is not Mahrez 2015, funnily enough, although I'm sure all those people who pointed out that Leicester last year amounted to a lot of dumb luck were just bitter haters.The three behind the striker is where we need to see improvements imo. The likes of Son, Lamela, Alli, Eriksen and Sissoko are all good players, who on their day can do amazing stuff, but none of them are absolutely top-class, not right now at least, of course in the future they could still improve a lot. At the moment though they lack consistency and dare I say it... just a bit of extra quality as well.
Where City have de Bruyne and Silva (although the latter has regressed a bit compared to how good he used to be...), Chelsea have Hazard, Woolwich have Ozil and Sanchez, Liverpool have Coutinho and United have Pogba (needs some time, but will get there imo), we just don't have players of that extra class playing in those positions. We used to have them in Bale and VDV, but haven't come close to that since.
Our team can match any other in pretty much every position, but in the three behind the striker we come up short imo, that is where we could do with at least one top-class addition. Even the likes of West Ham and Leicester arguably have a better player in that position than we have in Payet and Mahrez respectively.
Go support Man City then you plastic, glory-hunting mugSome sort of silverware please.
I still think we can win it. Early days but right now it seems like it could be any of 6 teams.It's the PL's closest top-5 ever (to this point in the season). I still think we can make the top 4 this year, but it's going to be a bloody slog, and our attacking midfield will need to more consistently pull their weight for us to do it.
Agreed. If our attacking midfielders (especially Eriken and Lamela) start to deliver the passing we need (which hasn't happened lately) then we could really jump up. The next 6 games are the biggest test of this. Good results in those set us up very well for the rest of the season.I still think we can win it. Early days but right now it seems like it could be any of 6 teams.
Go support Man City then you plastic, glory-hunting mug
Constantly slagging off players and mangers on here for not winning every single game
Log off you utter mug - you've been completely destroyed, discredited and ended after last night
Log off you utter mug - you've been completely destroyed, discredited and ended after last night