If any of you seriously believed we had the squad depth and experience for a CL and league challenge you must be kidding yourselves. Did anyone think wanyama janssen sissoko and nkoudo would be enough to bolster a young inexperienced squad that was not good enough for the EL. We faltered in the league missing 2 players. Dele is a kid with one season under his belt, yet we seem to think he's the finished article. We have to rotate, simple as. We cannot compete on both fronts. We have to keep within touching distance in the league. 5th is a must. We were not expecting CL football it's a bonus. However it's a major time in our existence and we need to be there thereabouts in the league with little outlay/ wage bill. It's a project. Hopefully the kids like Kane, dele, winks, dier etc learn and grow.
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I don't agree all.
Fucking dreadful bit I wasn't surprised. Especially after seeing the line up.
3/4 of our first choice back 4 were out. No wonder we looked totally and utterly disorganized at the back.
I love poch, but I still think he's trying to work out how to juggle multiple competitions. Apart from the league cup run where we mostly played shite until the final, his record is not particularly great. I honestly done know why.
And he needs to find a way to be able to play his strongest 11 2-3 times in a week. We are not good enough to be resting our best players In a competition like this.
As for the game, that was one of the first times I've seen us physically beasted since poch arrived. They were all over dembele and on the wings they just tore through us. They were a team of absolute monsters.
That said. That cunt should have walked for stamping on Kane's arse. It was right in front of the ref too.
3/4 of our first choice back 4 were out. No wonder we looked totally and utterly disorganized at the back.
I love poch, but I still think he's trying to work out how to juggle multiple competitions. Apart from the league cup run where we mostly played shite until the final, his record is not particularly great. I honestly done know why.
And he needs to find a way to be able to play his strongest 11 2-3 times in a week. We are not good enough to be resting our best players In a competition like this.
As for the game, that was one of the first times I've seen us physically beasted since poch arrived. They were all over dembele and on the wings they just tore through us. They were a team of absolute monsters.
That said. That cunt should have walked for stamping on Kane's arse. It was right in front of the ref too.
Wouldn't surprise me if Poch thinks we're so low energy that there's no point so has abandoned that altogether.
I imagine it only really works when everyone is in sync?
Kane, Lamela, Eriksen, Alli, Dembele and Dier was our midfield and attack when we were on top of our game. We haven't seen that ONCE this season.
Lets just keep it about this game. He was fouled in the box, that is it. Nothing special. He was woeful all night, as everyone else was, he was just worst of everyone, weak in tackle, couldn't hold the ball up, flicks going fucking nowhere.
Get off the fence and speak your mind ffs!
We jus beat West ham and had a decent showing against the arse you numpty
Thought Winks, Trippier, Rose, Dier and Wanyama were all worse than him to be fair.
Well done, Paddy. I'll give you that. There is the ONE thing, that makes it a shite performance from him. Not singling him out, they were all shite, he though was the worst.
I'm too fucking afraid you're right. Hope not.
no. it wasnt a gutless thrashing. we didnt fall apart when the second was scored and end up conceding 5. (and Lloris was in goal for those other games) we were poor tonight (as we have been through the champions league this year). no doubt. but a poor performance these days is a world away from a poor performance under sherwood.
If you cant see that, then the finest optician on the planet aint gonna help you.
Completely lost any ability to control, play or pass. Dreadful.
Yeah, we smashed West Ham, we played amazing didn't we? Absolutely thrashed them, we almost scored 20 goals in that game, no? So many shots on target.
Woolwich is a Derby. The rules of form and habit go out the window.
He was fucking shite.
I thought it was the manager's job to ensure the players are up for a game?
I would be happy if we could play some good football . Watching this season's shit
is becoming painful .
is becoming painful .
Like someone said earlier on here, we struggle with the approach, the mentality, focusing and having our heads not at the right places. It's just not this CL-campaign. It happens when it really counts. LC-final, West Ham at Boleyn last season, Newcastle away, Leicester home last season.
This is also known as the "Wenger-syndrome".
This is also known as the "Wenger-syndrome".