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Cracking result. West Brom have been immense at home this season so to get 3 points there is a god send. Now we can really push on. I think the Defoe injury will be a blessing in disguise, he has been off form recently and it will force us to play someone else. Any one else.
We have two proper strikers and you reckon one of them being injured is a blessing in disguise?
That's some fucking disguise!
Our last two transfer windows have been heavily criticized (some fair, some not) but it must be said we've made some great signings. Lloris, Vertonghen, Dembele, and Holtby (maybe being presumptuous but he certainly looks a player) are guys that can lead your team sheet for years to come. Plus, if Adebayor comes back to last year's form and Sigurdsson is still young. Overall, we've done good work IMO.
In regards to this year, we'll go as far as Bale takes us. When he plays like this we are a different team. However, he still has the tendency to disappear from time to time.
Good win I thought.
Seriously wtf are you expecting?
Hardly anyone ever gets a result away from home in PL - we are going to finish 4th, only behind the three teams in the league with virtually unlimited resources.
This is pretty much as good as it gets, so if you aren't mildly content with it then you may as well give up.
I'd only add we also signed Dempsey, who has made more than a bit of a difference against a certain club in Manchester this season. Seems to me we've had 2 good windows, even if we failed to sign the striker we all want. If we finish 4th with Ade in form, I wouldn't be shocked to see a striker brought in with the CL money. As for today, hard fought away win. I'll take that every day of the week.
Yes I hope we get 3rd or 4th, the competition isn't great. But apart from the great get out of jail performance against Man U, we've recently had QPR, Leeds and Norwich performances, and this one would have been similar probably if Popov had stayed on. Just worried that spurs are heading for their usual 2nd half of season decline even a bit early this year.
Still, good to get a 0-1 away win and extend the unbeaten run in the premier league. I'm also looking forward to the Lyon game, I think that might be entertaining.
Don't get me wrong I love Dempsey I just don't think he's in the long term plans. Hope I'm wrong though.
At one point Holtby lofted a diagonal ball to the edge of the area, brought back fond memories of VDV.
I thought the amount of tempting crosses that just sailed across the front of the goal and out the other side was simply scandalous.
Parker looks like he's not entirely in control of what he's doing. Though his enthusiasm went some way to making up for that.
As I said earlier, hardly anyone gets a result away from home in the PL.......
A draw away at QPR is all anyone gets now as they play with no attacking intent whatsoever on a tight, difficult pitch.
A draw at Norwich looks just about fine to me, Utd and the Scum both got turned over there.
Leeds was a cup match, their "cup final" so to speak........we looked (as the rest of the PL has) disinterested in winning.
We'll go two points clear of Chelsea if we beat Newcastle.
yes, but our away form has made our season, so we really need our home form to improve if we are going to struggle away to the likes of QPR and Norwich. Just being realistic, we won 0-1 against 10 men, look what Andy Reid said on Radio 5:
"West Brom have not done too badly since the goal. I have been disappointed with Tottenham as they have just sat back, but you never know what can happen.
"West Brom are there for the taking but Spurs are just content to get men behind the ball."
after earlier saying:
"Gareth Bale cut inside on his tremendous left foot and gave Ben Foster no chance. That goal was just a matter of time.
"It is attack v defence at the moment. The stupidity of what Goran Popov did is that his team-mates are suffering against 11 strong Spurs players.
"I think Spurs will be two or three up very soon."
It would be nice for a spurs side to kill off a game more often, but at least we got rid of that curse of conceding goals and dropping points in the last few minutes (it's been the other way round)