I also enjoyed my Chick-King breasts.
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I also enjoyed my Chick-King breasts.
Is that based on any Jose game you’ve ever seen?I think if we had a competent central midfield, one of the best strikers in the world and arguably our player of the season all playing, then yes. I think we'd play a different way and go toe to toe.
Is that based on any Jose game you’ve ever seen?
No it wouldn’t. What a ridiculous comment.
So basically we can now never play expansive in a game against a good side because we got spanked by Bayern.
Except it wasn’t for them.....Nothing ridiculous
See Totti 's reply
At the highest level, you need full strength, missing 3 key players and taking risks is foolish.
Except it wasn’t for them.....
You do realise we lost 1-0 right?! You’re talking about the tactics like it was some sort of success.
Probably. On no basis.No. By reading the discussion, you'd see that we're talking about how an expansive game would probably have seen us lose the tie by more than 1 goals.
We only started putting any kind of pressure on them when we had our best central midfielder on the pitch.
The fact he wasn't available from the start and we were missing our two best attacking players to test their inexperienced centre halves probably shows you why we couldn't go into the game in the same manner.
I expect we'll play similar away to how we did for most of the game at home. (Unless Ndombele starts) - try and stay resolute defensively and hope to get to on the break.
I think if we had a competent central midfield, one of the best strikers in the world and arguably our player of the season all playing, then yes. I think we'd play a different way and go toe to toe.
I’m sorry that’s just tired old rhetoric being trotted outYour entitled in your opinion mate but I'm basing mine off watching him Evey minute almost this season and the last 3. He's a good plan B at striker in a pinch but he's not a specialist there. When he's on a purple patch he'd score goals at CB but he's overall game doesn't suit a guy leading the line never has.
And the club more then likely know that and will be looking at bringing in a proper ST to cover Harry this summer. But the risk we took not getting on in Jan was awful IMO and cost us on Wednesday and will likely cost us points in the PL also that was my point
You conceited arseI’m sorry that’s just tired old rhetoric being trotted out
you’ll drag in some of the less erudite but most on here will see straight through that
I made comments about Absinthe previously. Step away from the keyboard.There was the black guy
white guy with a big round head
other than that I couldn’t tell them apart
all looked the fucking same
oh the keeper but that’s only because he had a stupidly big forehead ... put a normal size forehead on him and he’d have blended in just the same
Firstly, it's fucking hilarious that you lads managed to put 16(!!) disagrees on this. I wasn't watching my notifications so I came back to the post and just found it like this. I'm absolutely rolling.I don't understand how so many non-Spurs fans on here manage to make themselves hated so quickly. I'm a club neutral yet look at my profile: I've been here a while and got like 100+ post reactions and not a single negative.
It's clearly possible to be an active neutral participant, even a respected one, on this forum but these idiots find it absurdly difficult.
Well said. I'm not going to rehash my deep dive on why xG is a really shitty stat for deciding who "should" have won any individual match because it's long and boring for most people (here for anyone who is interested in that stuff) but my essential conclusion was exactly what you just said: trust your eyes over any statistic, especially xG.I don’t care what XG said. They hit the post, Werner had a one on one so did the striker shortly after the goal. They could have been 4-0 up before we even started playing.
I’d rather use my eyes than rely on stats.
I'm really bumping the shit out of this now-irrelevant thread, but I liked your post. As I elaborated on in the post above this one, I'm happy to see people coming around to the massive limitations of current xG models.There might not be a clearer indication of how dumb those stats are when you look at this game. How they have an xG of 1 is just hilarious. Which golden opportunity was the one? I thought that they had 3 pretty impressive chances before the clock hit 2 minutes.