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Agree with all this but will add the most troubling thing for me the players really don't seem bothered. There's no energy, no enthusiasm, no drive. We usually seem better in the second half most games but still mediocre by most standards.
Players on yellows as well. Look at royal couldn’t make a challenge. Build up to first goal bent just turns his back to shit. PEH couldn’t tackle. All the while we had hungry skipp on the bench and Biss plus spence/Doh. Surely they would have been better than any of those 3 in the last 15 mins. I really do not get it when he says we needed to be better in last 10 mins. Couldn’t he ducking see we had tired players on yellows that he needed to change it. What did he expect? It was his fault we were crap !
Not really. I was simply making the point that if you are 7th place in the Portuguese league then you aren’t that good and that we should be beating them. When they come up against a decent side in this competition they will capitulate. We were terrible and make anybody look good at the moment
It’s probably the tactics. Can Kane really be happy playing in a system that created f all for him. Sure he needs to do a lot more. But his constantly going deep as there is f all creativity behind him or on the wings.
Spence all day long. How many fucking defensive players do we need?
I'd play Spence, see what he can do otherwise like Gil and probably Sarr we'll never bloody know. But Conte seems to be using Spence to make a childish point which is really poor so more likely to be Doc if he changes things.
At this stage he could throw Hutton or Carr in and i'd be happy it wasn't Royal.
Agree he keeps bleating about how the club bought him. Be interesting to see if royal is benched and he plays Doh will spence be on the bench or royal. Remember less subs on the bench for EPL games. That would be a telling sign. I hope science plays with Doh on bench and royal dumped somewhere we even the Sweeney couldn’t find him
Poor team management, tactical decision making and a total lack of attack minded creative midfielders who can control the middle of the park, take the game by the scruff of the neck and formulate attacking moves. If we had prime Dembele, Eriksen and Walker this would make us a much more cohesive unit. We need players who play in a similar style.
I was thinking yesterday that there is no way we’d be giving away the ball so much if Dembele was still with us.
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Very true. The ball would just be stuck in the middle of the park for the majority of the game. Dembele would tackle their advancing players, hold the ball up well, pass to PEH or our front 3 who would get dispossessed, the opposition would advance with the ball and then rinse and repeat lol.
I don't see how their style of play implies they're being overloaded with tactics as there doesn't seem to be really any exciting movement, cute passing sequences or anything really that particularly surprises or unsettles the opposition. I think one can assume if a team is predictable like we are there's a lack of variety in the tactics!
Club mentality in question, coming from the top.
It’s not his fault we don’t score goals or let them in. Whose job is that??
Let’s check the goalscorers in the CL this year…..
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