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Why are we trying to make it complicated. When we attack up our left side our left back is going forward so the rest of your back three shuffle across. So lenglet would be nearly a left back,Romero middle to left,and royal narrows in to right centre back. That’s the way a back four always operates.
Royal played right back.
I barely watched yesterday's game tbh. Just glanced up every now and again while I was doing some weeding.Is everyone apathetic to the season now, or is there a correlation between winning and match thread sizes on TFC?
Just assumed as English would count towards HG quota. Calm the fuck downHow the fuck were you not aware of that considering how long he's been at the club and been mentioned almost religiously? Serious question.
remember back to mid 70's the season we were going down, would tell mates after most games "don't bother I'm not coming next week to watch this shower" next week phone would ring "we'll be round at 1130" and off we go to WHL or awayI barely watched yesterday's game tbh. Just glanced up every now and again while I was doing some weeding.
Love the club and always will, but it's been the season I've enjoyed least and am switched off from it now. It's made me very negative and I'm not usually like that. Even my wife said I'm not joking around about it all and I don't think its just the football. Its the constant circus of shite piped out by the media 24/7 that I'm playing into and don't want to get sucked further into it. I shouldn't be looking at photos of the chairman and actually want to egg him. It is just a game and he's just a man who's made a string of mistakes but maybe next season he finally gets it right and it all starts coming together again bit by bit. Then maybe we get some unity back in the fanbase.
tl;dr - fuck this season and bring back hope for the next.
Porro. Mason said that himselfRyan has been banging on about the players being together and playing as a team. I noticed Son tracking back, Kane clearing off the line. Romero seemed more disciplined, Royal covered Porro but Porro still mucked in.
Davies although rusty added some bite to the left.
I didn't think he had a good game or Lenglet but there were so many tweaks in defence to try and take in.
It's easy to say....its because Dier wasn't playing but there is far more too it than that.
Ryan also mentioned we had a 6th man pressing to engage Palace further up the pitch. I need help identifying who the 6th man is, my apologies.
Hope you put your house on it.Not sure on the scoreline
Put your house on a clean sheet though
COYS, Traumahound
Enic & levy have sucked the love & joy out of it for many. Glad we won but wouldn’t be particularly bothered if we hadn’t. All pretty meaningless with europa or conference best we can get.Is everyone apathetic to the season now, or is there a correlation between winning and match thread sizes on TFC?
Enic & levy have sucked the love & joy out of it for many. Glad we won but wouldn’t be particularly bothered if we hadn’t. All pretty meaningless with europa or conference best we can get.
I can take or leave them. Don’t think it matters much if we don’t make either. Not good enough to win the europa anyway.I'm happy with either and would use them to give minutes to fringe players where possible. CL is a step too far anyway if we are to go through a rebuild.
Mason & Kane clear up the formation tweaks. 4-4-2 without the ball, 3-4-3 with the ball.
Also, I suspect Davies was selected as LWB/LB instead of Perisic to help contain Olise.
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Mason: "Ultimately we wanted to engage Palace higher up the pitch because we know they have some individual brilliance, and we wanted to avoid them getting the ball in our final third and the box running at us," he said.
"So we added a sixth man into the press and tried to be a bit more aggressive and I have to compliment the players because when you've been working in a certain way for so long to make that change at this stage of the season it's very positive for me."
Mason then admitted that the extra sixth man he added to the press was Porro, utilising the Spaniard's fitness.
Kane: "It was Ryan's first full week to work and train. We changed to 4-4-2 without the ball to get the extra man and then with the ball it was similar to our normal formation. It's nice to get on the scoresheet and when you win it feels that bit sweeter."
Spurs set next manager stance and why Ryan Mason was furious as Lenglet came off
There's a reason for that. Conté never had the opportunity of having all those defenders, fully fit, on the pitch in one game. He might have had them available but Porro hadn't come out his terrible start and Emerson got injured. Davies was injured so it was Sess (until he got injured) or Perisic.Infinitely more entertaining than Conte/Stellini ball.
Well said. The difference was having 3 CBs that worked well together and WBs that were fit enough to push the whole game.Mason & Kane clear up the formation tweaks. 4-4-2 without the ball, 3-4-3 with the ball.
Also, I suspect Davies was selected as LWB/LB instead of Perisic to help contain Olise.
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Mason: "Ultimately we wanted to engage Palace higher up the pitch because we know they have some individual brilliance, and we wanted to avoid them getting the ball in our final third and the box running at us," he said.
"So we added a sixth man into the press and tried to be a bit more aggressive and I have to compliment the players because when you've been working in a certain way for so long to make that change at this stage of the season it's very positive for me."
Mason then admitted that the extra sixth man he added to the press was Porro, utilising the Spaniard's fitness.
Kane: "It was Ryan's first full week to work and train. We changed to 4-4-2 without the ball to get the extra man and then with the ball it was similar to our normal formation. It's nice to get on the scoresheet and when you win it feels that bit sweeter."
Spurs set next manager stance and why Ryan Mason was furious as Lenglet came off