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He will forget coz he wasn't playing against Saha ?Emerson Royale making a debut against Saha. He won't forget that. Why not a few sub appearances?
He will forget coz he wasn't playing against Saha ?Emerson Royale making a debut against Saha. He won't forget that. Why not a few sub appearances?
more likely calling his next employerWhat was the purpose of Fabio Paratici running around and clocking up a whopping telephone bill?
You can say it was one of those days and everything that could have gone wrong did - injuries beforehand, injuries during the game, an increasingly patched up defence, red cards, penalties, etc - but that would be kidding ourselves. We were second best throughout, had little discernible game plan, and were so flat today.
Early days, but much like last season, results and sheer effort have masked big deficiencies in quality/performance so far. It is inevitable that will run out though. You simply cannot offer so little with the ball, in terms of both your plan and then quality to enact it, and hope to do anything long term.
A game like that does nothing to allay my fears about Nuno and what football we're in for and what he's comfortable with. Mid-low block, give up the ball, seemingly pinning our hopes on Moura slaloming his/our way upfield so we can counter.... Just fuck off with that. It has to be better.
Harsh on Dele. He had some moments ie the blockThink you’ve been extremely generous in giving Dele and Kane a 3. Kane was shit today but it can be said he’s been on international duty, but Dele hasn’t (and isn’t going to be in the future based on his performances) so there’s no excuse for his lethargy or anyone else in the team who didn’t play in international games.
Found one of them then!Is your brilliant analysis that we would have done better this game if we had a 2nd striker on the bench? Honestly, think before you speak.
This is such anti Levy nonsense. Honestly.
A lot of people thought that the fortunate results against Watford and Wolves were good and a sign we could win even when not at our best. Does today now counter that?
Who would you have played under the circumstances then? Tanguy wasn't going to start. Rodon wasn't going to start. The only change I may have made was Gil for Winks and have Dele in the midfield three. But that doesn't do anything to help Skipp coming off an injury midweek.if you ask 10 fans none of them would put a such line-up
I often wonder what would have happened in the CL final if he started as he should have ?Laughable.
Only positives I can pick out are I think Lucas looked great first half and certainly our most dangerous player. Emerson I thought started well to be honest. In time he'll be good.
But my word we need better depth. Should have brought on Ndombele/Gil at half time.
We got what we deserved for a terrible performance. However, how was that not a foul on Lucas prior to the Tanganga/Zaha incident? Also Zaha should have seen red. Not defending Japhet either, he was stupid to challenge minutes after a booking.
Nuno has a lot of work to do. The South America debacle, injuries to Son/Bergwin and now Dier have ruined us. Kane looked disinterested the whole game. Saddens me.
Yes we may have done better in the window but to say this had anything to do with Levy is wrong. This was to do with the set up. At least play the cards you have as well as possible, or if see it is not working and have chance to swap then bloody take it.Half baked.
Every window.
Levy believes we have enough in the squad which simply isn't true as seen today.
As soon as a few are unavailable we are back to relying on Winks, Davies and other really average footballers.
Dele may have improved his effort but he's not a go to player for creativity and control. He can do great stuff in small flashes but you need much more than that.
Not much more to be honest. Not necessarily his fault, he was played in a position where he looked totally lost and was ineffective at best.Harsh on Dele. He had some moments ie the block
Granted, he was up against a hungry Zaha, but he was certainly not impressive. Looked clumsy and rash. I won’t judge him on this performance but he was not impressive.Some good performances today. Impressed with Emerson, Rodon, Moura. Alli did well. Japhet is a legend already. Kane was shite. Should have put Bryan on. Other than that worst scenario is we are 1 point behind the league leaders after 4 games. COYS!