Not sure man.
We'll be well up for this and we're pretty good at home. 9 wins in our last 10.
Though that one loss came when Porro and Udogie were both missing.... So here's hoping we've got atleast Porro back.
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Not sure man.
We'll be well up for this and we're pretty good at home. 9 wins in our last 10.
Though that one loss came when Porro and Udogie were both missing.... So here's hoping we've got atleast Porro back.
No predictions from me - I've made too many mistakes to fall into that trap.
I WANT us to win by 2 or more goals (some hopes), to help our GD vs Villa. I actually don't care how we do it either. Just get the fucking goals and don't concede any.
Recently our attack has been toothless, our midfield has been flakey and our defence seems to be either running back desperately or half asleep at corners.
Occasionally they give us periods of lovely, quick, attractive-looking, pitty-patty one-touch passing, but where do we end up? - camped on the outskirts of the opposition's 16yard box, where it all breaks down, often with Son involved.
What's the answer, in terms of tactics? Fucked if I know. Get the ball into their box as often as possible and show passion for the entire game. Not too much to ask, is it? We either win or we go down trying.
I WANT us to win by 2 or more goals (some hopes), to help our GD vs Villa. I actually don't care how we do it either. Just get the fucking goals and don't concede any.
Recently our attack has been toothless, our midfield has been flakey and our defence seems to be either running back desperately or half asleep at corners.
Occasionally they give us periods of lovely, quick, attractive-looking, pitty-patty one-touch passing, but where do we end up? - camped on the outskirts of the opposition's 16yard box, where it all breaks down, often with Son involved.
What's the answer, in terms of tactics? Fucked if I know. Get the ball into their box as often as possible and show passion for the entire game. Not too much to ask, is it? We either win or we go down trying.
Fuck it
Spurs 4 Scum 0
Spurs 4 Scum 0
Zonal marking and just watching the ball is as bad as the personel.
Every team does zonal marking these days, you man mark two or three big threats and the rest of the players defend a zone. Woolwich have the best defence in the league doing this. Zonal marking is not the reason we are shit on set pieces.
Lack of height and lack of aggression are the reason. As you say, players ball watching. Lucas Moura was a dwarf but he was aggressive on high balls and was damn good at getting to them first. If our players were as determined as him it would more than make up for the lack of height.
Our tallest players aren't great though.
Vicario struggles with physicality, VDV isn't great in the air, Bentancur doesn't seem to win many headers. We look like a team that has never seen a corner come in before.
Scarily, we often look like we've never taken one at the other end either.
We should have done everything to keep Gianni Vio.
Vicario is great - but he's shit at corners for sure.
Don't you remember what happened when they both played fullback in this system, which relies on them to be quick and dynamic massively, earlier in the season?
It is a huge problem to the effectiveness of our game if they both play and are asked to do the Porro/Udogie role.
there's nothing inherently wrong with Zonal marking, a lot of teams go zonal and get good results. Liverpool for example.
ours needs work, and i have no doubt it will be worked on pre season but when you 7 or 8 of your defenders in a set piece situation are made up of brennan johnson, son, werner, maddison, porro, udogie and bissouma i feel you're already at disadvantage and putting massive pressure on Romero and VDV as the only two with real commanding areal prescience
One of the many situations where we miss Harry, he would often be the guy that heads the corner away.
Don't worry. He'll have recovered in time to play against us.
I predict Ange will Start Maddison in the centre again and we will all pretend to be shocked that they completely control the midfield creating chances galore.
He shouldn't be taking them TBH.
Stamo our authority, stoo odegaard and saka we win. Ben white can be woumd up as well.
You've got a slightly dodgy right middle finger, haven't you?
Sorry mate. Dodgy eyesight.
Stop saka and odegaard we win. Hope porro plays sunday. We need to buck up though and that includes Ange. Newcastle was a disgrace. Beaten before we started.