Donki
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Ok I will bite, do you see a similarity with Jose's time with United and he shorter time with us? Yes or no?
Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 23
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Ok I will bite, do you see a similarity with Jose's time with United and he shorter time with us? Yes or no?
SlotBadger
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Yeah, but not by the person laughing at your post, because that would require an iota of humility.
stormfly
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I’ve been happy to rip into Spurs when performances and fight have been abysmal but I really don’t think our performances and fight has been at all bad since the Chelsea match. The players are still playing for the coach, the football has picked up, players have been put back into the squad and the fight has been there. Recent performances have shown that results will improve very soon. Stupid individual mistakes are still happening but a couple of wins will hopefully iron this out as confidence improves. I really think we’ll finish this season strongly.
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CrazyHeart
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One, who would you replace him with? Another Sherwood or a Lampard? They'll take over mid-season which is almost always a recipe for disaster and then they'll go through the same rinse/repeat cycle where a discussion of new signings will come up and here we go again.
Agree with you that we do have problems defensively and our forwards are not playing to their potential... that's something Jose's gotta fix - no argument there.
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Yeah mate that’s how bad it’s got serge aurier is one of our best players this season
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I'm not mad, tbh I'm Surprised (I'm not really) by the angry response seeing as everybody universally accepted that this was going to be a loss.
As I said in the match thread, I think our season starts now. We have Chelsea, Liverpool, City out the way and top4 is still possible.
We have some problem with chopping and changing the defence, that is not good. We need to pick a back 4 and stick with it, I'd certainly include Rodon.
I think it was smart to get Bale and dele minutes and have them back in. I know Bale hasnt worked out so far but I think we should just start him and see if we see an attitude shift if we give him the confidence of starting. We saw it with Ndombele in the documentary he was devoid of confidence and kept talking about not starting games and look at him now. I'd be looking to do the same with Bale, maybe his attitude doesn't warrant it but his quality does and I hope the attitude follows.
I thought the game today the defensive shape was fine in first half and we got undone by a clumsy pen and then paper wrists. I think theres elements can build on, I know it doesn't feel like that but if we just continue with Hojbjerg and Ndombele, go with a front 4 which I hope in the long run includes Lo Celso and Bale and go with a consistent defence we can begin to turn shit around.
As I said in the match thread, I think our season starts now. We have Chelsea, Liverpool, City out the way and top4 is still possible.
We have some problem with chopping and changing the defence, that is not good. We need to pick a back 4 and stick with it, I'd certainly include Rodon.
I think it was smart to get Bale and dele minutes and have them back in. I know Bale hasnt worked out so far but I think we should just start him and see if we see an attitude shift if we give him the confidence of starting. We saw it with Ndombele in the documentary he was devoid of confidence and kept talking about not starting games and look at him now. I'd be looking to do the same with Bale, maybe his attitude doesn't warrant it but his quality does and I hope the attitude follows.
I thought the game today the defensive shape was fine in first half and we got undone by a clumsy pen and then paper wrists. I think theres elements can build on, I know it doesn't feel like that but if we just continue with Hojbjerg and Ndombele, go with a front 4 which I hope in the long run includes Lo Celso and Bale and go with a consistent defence we can begin to turn shit around.
mrlilywhite
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I thought it was more like City being on tick over
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Mattspurs1982
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you’re not allowed to say that here ?
SlotBadger
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Chatting out of his arse as always.
Trying to say Mourinho is relying on Dele and Gareth to bale him out when he’s ”treated them badly.”
They are grown men, paid stupid money, and they simply haven’t been picked to play for a football team. Boohoo.
freeeki
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Players in their late 20s who have been on a noticeable decline for years generally don’t improve much.
But you know this already.
Univarn
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There's no shame in losing to this City team. Since we last played them Pep learned how to shut down counter attacks by always having 5 players behind the ball and having his most flexible players on the pitch so they can rotate around to keep those numbers.
That said how Jose looked at that and said "welp our only option I'm is to sit back and counter" is just so sad it's not even pathetic. He's just been retreating more and more into his worst form it's annoying how much 3rd year things fall apart Jose we're getting at the moment.
That said how Jose looked at that and said "welp our only option I'm is to sit back and counter" is just so sad it's not even pathetic. He's just been retreating more and more into his worst form it's annoying how much 3rd year things fall apart Jose we're getting at the moment.
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‘if’ Jose goes his replacement needs to be someone who will play to the players strengths and not try to get them to do the polar opposite of the way they like to play. Asking them to press and work hard is to be expected but asking them to be play defensive every game is a recipe for disaster.
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We've been on a winning run, and obviously a losing run this season. It could change again, I'm hopeful that we'll put together a good run all the way to mid April. There's also Europe League which I take as a welcome distraction now. I'm not saying I'm 80% confident that's how things will go, but I do think that we don't really know what is yet to come. Can we put a winning streak together? I think that's plausible.
Navy242046x
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Mate did you expect lloris to make his gloves dirty?? Mate he is shite
JUSTINSIGNAL
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i really agree with all of this.I think we’re going to pick up form.
Inq
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You've only just noticed that recently?
nah, but with current issues we are having as a club it has been magnified significantly.
