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There is no doubt in my mind that he Lenglet should be considered first choice by Conte moving forward. Looked comfortable on the ball, unhurried and never out of position.
I harp on about this all the time but I think Royal is genuinely very good at passing combinations from deep to work around an opposition press. Sanchez weight and time of pass just does not allow for this. Himself, Romero, Bentancur, Hojbjerg work very tidy triangles in a way I don't think any of our other wing backs are capable of. (Perisic.. but he's an altogether more accomplished player). A real shame he can't make decisive passes in the opposition box, if he did we'd have an excellent player.
He plays in the middle of a back 3 - his job is to cover that huge space (piece of grass in the middle) so he was doing his job/ where I would be critical is defending with his arms behind his back - puts you totally off balance - hence his feeble effort to block the shot.
He's no difference that Lasso, but has tons more influence.
Don't knock him.
FFS
What's that great big lump of grass going to do?
He should have read what was going on and been covering Romero who he'd left 1v1 to mark no-one and cover nothing.
It was shit defending from Romero, how is Dier meant to react to such a weak tackle, you'd think that Romero would have dealt with it better than that.
No need to over analyse, just put the goal on Romero and keep it moving.
I think it's great they're shifting their game order to quality and excitement over big club bias.
The first two games clearly had the lot, while the Merseyside Derby and the Man City game was relegated to the tail end.
Quite refreshing IMO
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Behave - every fucking defender being drawn to the ball is school boy stuff - the big lump of grass would be a massive space that would be a massive opportunity to the attacking team to exploit.
Dier was doing exactly what he has been coached to do - his massive improvement recently partly due to his hard work and application and massively due to being expertly coached
I can be as big a doom and gloom merchant as the best of us can and rarely get carried away with a good result here and there. But, as others have mentioned, today’s score line was not reflective of the game. We had it in the bag and it was a 3-0 or so game to us game all day long.
I’m surprised at Bentancur not getting more of an individual mention here than he seems to be. I watched him and Lenglet very closely today at the game (I’ve commented on Lenglet in his specific thread) and think Bentancur deserves a special mention. He covered loads of ground effortlessly, was always available for a pass and was always looking for the ball. When he had the ball, he continuously drew two Fulham players in at a time then beat them through little one twos or by passing through them with ease and setting us off again. I thought it was his best performance for us this season by far.
I’m surprised at Bentancur not getting more of an individual mention here than he seems to be. I watched him and Lenglet very closely today at the game (I’ve commented on Lenglet in his specific thread) and think Bentancur deserves a special mention. He covered loads of ground effortlessly, was always available for a pass and was always looking for the ball. When he had the ball, he continuously drew two Fulham players in at a time then beat them through little one twos or by passing through them with ease and setting us off again. I thought it was his best performance for us this season by far.
That would be amazing if we all did that. We absolutely went mad went Richi netted; such a shame.
I'm referring to your earlier post about how the new signings did.
Richarlison and Lenglet = very good.
Persisic = a late sub so not much to say about him this time (he came on for Son not Sess)
I agree. Having said that, I don't think there was a game that didn't offer some great entertainment, barring Chelsea West Ham maybe, even the scoreless draws were highly entertaining.
Good weekend of Football all round I reckon.
She's class..... Amazingly, she was "near me" too after the Forest game last weekend.
The old "any press is good press" ouroboros.
Cracking game of football, post-match drinks in the White Hart upstairs, and then a walk to Edmonton for a Turkish - What a day!!
The team were excellent today, and we were so unlucky not to have scored more. PEH's movement for his goal was outstanding, and he had a really solid game.
Fulham's time-wasting antics in the first half was beyond pathetic, and to the ref's credit, he clamped down on it, in the 2nd half. Great atmosphere too
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The team were excellent today, and we were so unlucky not to have scored more. PEH's movement for his goal was outstanding, and he had a really solid game.
Fulham's time-wasting antics in the first half was beyond pathetic, and to the ref's credit, he clamped down on it, in the 2nd half. Great atmosphere too
.It was shit defending from both, but at least Romero is proactive, he actually gets a tackle in, albeit a shit one, but the ball just spins out the tackle to Mitrovic, but at that point Dier, watching all this unfold still has time to react and push out toward Mitrovic - but he just fucking stands there, three meters away and makes no attempt to do anything.
I didn't say "every defender should be drawn to the ball".
What you basing your knowledge of Dier doing what he's instructed to do? You got any footage of Conte telling Dier to fucking stand and watch instead of doing shit?
Ana, 30, had photos for me apparently. I hd kids around me so was wary about opening them.