Agreed. Best officiating I’ve seen in the last couple of seasons was definitely at home in the CL last season v Frankfurt. Excellent ref and team.
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Picked up a shitty virus a couple of days back and flogged my tickets for this one on.
Probably for the best as that may just well have finished me off.
Not for the purists perhaps but personally I'll take a bit o' Angeball all day long! We must be the most watchable team on the planet right now. Especially for the neutrals.
Probably for the best as that may just well have finished me off.
Not for the purists perhaps but personally I'll take a bit o' Angeball all day long! We must be the most watchable team on the planet right now. Especially for the neutrals.
To be fair it was two very bad errors from Udogie that gifted them the goals. Don't remember too many other great chances for them.
Those types of errors don't happen often - never mind twice in 1 game!
Very entertaining if stressful game too. Great to be back though!
First half we got sucked into Brentford's tactics and struggled to create anything. 2nd half however we were much better, Ange's subs worked a treat it allowed for so much more creativity. Hojberg did well when come on.
Richarlison was my MOTM. Nice to see Johnson score considering he gets some stick.
Brentford are a bunch of cheats and that Maupay is deffo getting them relegated.
The referee was absolutely awful.
First half we got sucked into Brentford's tactics and struggled to create anything. 2nd half however we were much better, Ange's subs worked a treat it allowed for so much more creativity. Hojberg did well when come on.
Richarlison was my MOTM. Nice to see Johnson score considering he gets some stick.
Brentford are a bunch of cheats and that Maupay is deffo getting them relegated.
The referee was absolutely awful.
So very poor in the first half, that was unreal. Incredible for the first 10-15 mins of the second...could (should?) have scored more than 3.
I admire Ange's philosophy and that he always wants us to play, look for a pass etc, but comes a time when you gotta drop back a wee bit and when you got the ball in the dying minutes, take it to their corner flag and waste whatever time is left...instead of looking for one more pass like Kulu did twice. It sure ain't pretty, but it's much better than nearly conceding the equalizer at the death.
Hopefully the boys learn that they gotta be on their A-game from minute 1 every week. Gotta be more clinical in both boxes and cut them silly errors from our game. Then we're golden.
COYS
I admire Ange's philosophy and that he always wants us to play, look for a pass etc, but comes a time when you gotta drop back a wee bit and when you got the ball in the dying minutes, take it to their corner flag and waste whatever time is left...instead of looking for one more pass like Kulu did twice. It sure ain't pretty, but it's much better than nearly conceding the equalizer at the death.
Hopefully the boys learn that they gotta be on their A-game from minute 1 every week. Gotta be more clinical in both boxes and cut them silly errors from our game. Then we're golden.
COYS
The faces Brennan Johnson and Madders made after the 2nd goal while mocking Maupay. i'm dead.
That was a whacky game. Loads of control first half but not a lot of penetration (matron), interspersed with mad moments of back door flapping in the wind.
Udogie was a real mixed bag. Offensively pretty good, defensively very bad all night. In between was very involved in the game.
The subs were kind of baffling. I never want to see Kulusevski as an 8, but I guess if you want to take some risks and swap some control to have more "offensive" players on the pitch I guess the Skipp/Johnson/Kulusevski re-jig is gettable (not what I want to see but gettable). I really didn't get the need to just straight swap Bentancur and Hojbjerg at the same time? It meant later on in the game you have no ability to put things back to a more safer - see ut the game - midfield. Especially as Maddison was making his first start for three months as well. And I'm not sure what the perceived gain was meant to be?
As a result, the second half felt like a bit of a chaotic mess at times. I guess if Udogie hadn't gifted them a goal out of absolutely nothing, it might not have become or felt quite so chaotic and desperate.
Kulusevski nothing. Again. Set the tone in the first couple of minutes when put clean through and bumbled it away. The rest of the game was one big fucking bumble for him.
Ange's football is definitely coming with back door issues though. We didn't actually allow them loads of shots and they only had three shots on target, but some of that was due to some pretty scary last ditch defending. Several times they exposed our system and had some very dangerous situations.
That said, there were, as ever, plenty of positives. First half wasn't as bad as some were making out, we controlled the ball pretty well, tried to press them high and turnover, keep them squeezed up, but everything was very narrow. And Brentford's tactics were looking to be paying the odd break away dividend.
That blitz of the first ten minutes second half we just blew them away. Some great transition football. After that it all got a bit messy. We had small spells of control, but also spells with no control.
Having Maddison back really helps with build up. Werner was decent tonight, some good runs, posed them some questions, played a part in a couple of goals and worked pretty smart without the ball. I liked when he lost it in the second half he raced back to win it back from the opposition player. Johnson did ok when he came on, got himself into a good place to score and seemed to be working a bit harder without the ball.
Udogie was a real mixed bag. Offensively pretty good, defensively very bad all night. In between was very involved in the game.
The subs were kind of baffling. I never want to see Kulusevski as an 8, but I guess if you want to take some risks and swap some control to have more "offensive" players on the pitch I guess the Skipp/Johnson/Kulusevski re-jig is gettable (not what I want to see but gettable). I really didn't get the need to just straight swap Bentancur and Hojbjerg at the same time? It meant later on in the game you have no ability to put things back to a more safer - see ut the game - midfield. Especially as Maddison was making his first start for three months as well. And I'm not sure what the perceived gain was meant to be?
As a result, the second half felt like a bit of a chaotic mess at times. I guess if Udogie hadn't gifted them a goal out of absolutely nothing, it might not have become or felt quite so chaotic and desperate.
Kulusevski nothing. Again. Set the tone in the first couple of minutes when put clean through and bumbled it away. The rest of the game was one big fucking bumble for him.
Ange's football is definitely coming with back door issues though. We didn't actually allow them loads of shots and they only had three shots on target, but some of that was due to some pretty scary last ditch defending. Several times they exposed our system and had some very dangerous situations.
That said, there were, as ever, plenty of positives. First half wasn't as bad as some were making out, we controlled the ball pretty well, tried to press them high and turnover, keep them squeezed up, but everything was very narrow. And Brentford's tactics were looking to be paying the odd break away dividend.
That blitz of the first ten minutes second half we just blew them away. Some great transition football. After that it all got a bit messy. We had small spells of control, but also spells with no control.
Having Maddison back really helps with build up. Werner was decent tonight, some good runs, posed them some questions, played a part in a couple of goals and worked pretty smart without the ball. I liked when he lost it in the second half he raced back to win it back from the opposition player. Johnson did ok when he came on, got himself into a good place to score and seemed to be working a bit harder without the ball.
Plenty of shit unexplainable reffing in the CL too.
Probably the most divisive player in the squad (sit down for now Brennan)
Comes into his own against the better teams for me or when we're under the cosh where he holds the ball well and has this uncanny knack of wriggling away from 2, sometimes 3 players with the ball and all of a sudden creates a lot of space.
If he could cut out the dithering and even if it was just every now and again go down the line. Keep em guessing but we rarely if ever see it?
So yeah given what we're trying to achieve maybe his days here are numbered.
Seems a good lad though!
IMO, Son can still play LW at a decent/pretty good level based off of his performances on the wing this season, but he is not the dribbler he used to be...rather have him as the striker on this team.
Kulu is a maddison back up at best IMO.....hes good at certain things but overall a limited player.
Agree that RW is a huge issue.
Skipp did pretty well in the first half so I think he must have had a knock.
Bentancur struggled a bit and lost his head a couple times.
Either way, the changes clearly worked and we were a lot more threatening with Kulu and Maddison in the middle with Johnson on the flank. Højbjerg put in another excellent shift imo too.
We should trade for him now for the larfs
Højbjerg was exceptional again this evening once he came on.