Why the fuck are you here then? Why the fuck are you responding then?
You could just post a football opinion but I guess that's just too hard for you.
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You could just post a football opinion but I guess that's just too hard for you.
Same Guido who slated 'Champo' Trippier relentlessly, obviously knows a good full back when he sees one.
Clueless.
Clueless.
You are supposed to have me on ignore!! You are still lacking the minerals (you do this always) to tag me directly or reply directly to a post......bottler. And as usual, you have absolutely nothing to post about football.
Difference between talking about and talking to is hard for some people.
'Champo' must of course mean La Liga winner.
'Champo' must of course mean La Liga winner.
He would be better in a 4 eg his complete inability to attack won’t be so exposed. Defensively he’s gonna be shite
yep 3rd goal his fault but not other 2. 2nd goal Kulusevski just decides to leave the Southampton player with a free run despite spotting the run early. Emerson can't be expected to mark 2 players.
That being said he was absolutely awful yesterday as he usually is. He doesn't offer anything in an attacking sense and defensively he's not great either. What exactly is the point in having Kulusevski on that side when Emerson doesn't offer an option meaning Kulusevskis lack of pace is completely exposed.
Good post.
Conte did not react in the 1st half and made poor subs in the 2nd.
But Royal was poor and Soton targeted him from the kick off.
There isn't.
Who should have he replaced him with smarty? Emerson wasn't playing in some of the previous matches, and we still concede plenty of goals, and our defense was dog**** ....
With who exactly Conte got to replace him ?
Thanks mate.
He was poor but it would take a World Class FB to have dealt with the threat of Saints last night and I'd suspect they too would have struggled given how we set up, specifically Saints didn't target him but the spaces around him.
The biggest problem was I felt both PEH and Winks were too high, so they were easily bypassed, it meant too that they could have two players either side of Royale (they did the same with Reggie too). It meant they were able to pull our back three out of position, so Royal would be pulled out wide with another player left unmarked behind him, which meant Sanchez got drawn to him, then Romero etc etc etc..
Quite often, Sanchez and Royal had swapped (as did Davies and Reggie) such was Southampton's movement. It did show that we didn't panic and that their was communication between our players to enable this but by being outnumbered (Saints always having a spare man over in space) we were terrible at closing them down and they more often than not crossed/passed unopposed.
I think all of this could have been countered if Conte started with a midfield 5 (with WB's) but perhaps more significantly if he did what he did when we played Leeds who for the first 45mins pressed us off the park, which was to drop Winks and PEH (or Bentacur) beside Romero (Central CB). This worked a treat against Leeds, meant that Dier (the central CB) was free (unpressed) and enabled us to build play through him which he did really well and it turned the game.
I don't think Conte did anything other than making subs which were like for like in terms of position and nothing changed positionally that helped players that were outnumbered. I think we improved 2nd half but I'd put that down to us trying to press Southampton more than we did in the first half, the issues of us being outnumbered in key areas were still there.
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I agree with some of this, the Conte part especially. Piss poor tactical and structural set up last night. And whilst not loving Emerson, I also think some of the criticism of him is not rational or reasonable, it’s just pure scapegoatism.
This was evidenced in the Leicester game when we were actually worse in the second half when we swapped Doherty than we had been in the first with Emerson. Our last minute miracle fed the scapegoat confirmation bias.
Neither Emerson or Doherty are great attacking RB’s, pretty similar in actual production (very little) but at least Emerson is more dynamic and is generally better defensively (though not great last night obviously) and technically.
We maybe could have done better than Emerson, but I’m not sure which world class attacking RB who is also world class defensively, and can play RWB and RB - we could have signed - when Bayern Munich have Pavard as a RB, it tells us something about the availability of quality RB’s generally.
But I can’t help but point out (because agreeing with that bore
The Mercurial No.10
is never a good look) you were pretty fond of scapegoating a previous spurs RB yourself.
Like you did with Sissoko you meanI agree with some of this, the Conte part especially. Piss poor tactical and structural set up last night. And whilst not loving Emerson, I also think some of the criticism of him is not rational or reasonable, it’s just pure scapegoatism.
This was evidenced in the Leicester game when we were actually worse in the second half when we swapped Doherty than we had been in the first with Emerson. Our last minute miracle fed the scapegoat confirmation bias.
Neither Emerson or Doherty are great attacking RB’s, pretty similar in actual production (very little) but at least Emerson is more dynamic and is generally better defensively (though not great last night obviously) and technically.
We maybe could have done better than Emerson, but I’m not sure which world class attacking RB who is also world class defensively, and can play RWB and RB - we could have signed - when Bayern Munich have Pavard as a RB, it tells us something about the availability of quality RB’s generally.
But I can’t help but point out (because agreeing with that bore
Now that was scapegoating
smarty? You have to ask who we would replace him when there is another right wing back on the bench???? LOL tbh we could replace royal with 'anyone'. he is total shit. yes of course we concede goals when he doesnt play. because sanchez, reggie are both shit too but royal is by far the worst of the lot and make the decision to terminate aurier's contract to then spend money on royal a joke
No, that was calling one of the shittest midfielders that has ever pulled on a spurs shirt, shit.
I backed up that criticism with evidence, anecdotal, pictorial, video and statistical. Frequently.
Your boy was a duffer. Accept it and move on.