Think he's out on a bit of chunkJenas good value on MOTD2
Looking particularly 'Dr Dre'. Hench
Just watched the game over again and for all we were the better team overall and deserved to win?? The start of that second half and those two headers - Giroud and Koscielny - nobody anywhere near them, its awful. It is our achilles heel (still) as it was for a lot of last season. Toby and Jan need to be much more commanding from set piece situations, against.
I don't disagree and I hope they can improve a bit but it may just not be possible for them to out-jump taller players who are exceptionally good in the air.
Can't rely on verts in the air tbh, would prefer Dier to have marking duty on main threat on oppo. set pieces.Just watched the game over again and for all we were the better team overall and deserved to win?? The start of that second half and those two headers - Giroud and Koscielny - nobody anywhere near them, its awful. It is our achilles heel (still) as it was for a lot of last season. Toby and Jan need to be much more commanding from set piece situations, against.
It wasn't down to out jumping them or not, nobody was anywhere near them, on 3 occasions plus.I don't disagree and I hope they can improve a bit but it may just not be possible for them to out-jump taller players who are exceptionally good in the air.
Cutting out crosses would help but in fairness you can't stop every attack from every angle all the time, and the defence actually did a very convincing job overall.
I'd rather keep Jan and Toby with their potential aerial weakness (it's not as bad as all that, either) than lose the many other qualities they contribute to the team that we've been lacking for a very long time.
It wasn't down to out jumping them or not, nobody was anywhere near them, on 3 occasions plus.
It was and still is an issue we just don't seem to address although we have improved defensively in other areas.
For me it looks like we simply do not decide who's marking who before or even during a game.
If you're playing Arseholes you know Giroud and Scrotumsacker are the biggest aerial threat. So why wasn't Verts marking one and Alder marking the other?
To me it actually looked a few times like Lamela had been given the task of marking Giroud and thats nuts.
Any high balls in worry me but I suppose its a testament to how well we played that we reduced them to long ball in their own back yard.
It is an issue but boys played really well today bar that.
We're definitely stronger than the sum of our parts. Great team work.
...nine of the last 16 England debutants have worked under Pochettino either at Tottenham or on the south coast.
Don't care, he's shit....An extraordinary statement in yesterday's Guardian's preview of today's match, which I have to assume they have bothered to check:
Can't rely on verts in the air tbh, would prefer Dier to have marking duty on main threat on oppo. set pieces.
Oh God please don't tell me we were using zonal marking.It looked more simple to me. It seemed we were marking zonally. As soon as Giroud got that first header which hit the bar, Poch should have got Dier to man mark him at any set piece. Unfortunately that did not seem to happen and each time he had a free header. Lucky for us he didn't take advantage.
He wasn't stellar, but he's the best option we have imo. Has the height and physicality and is, generally, good in the air.Dier was one of the main culprits today at set pieces I felt, certainly guilty on a couple of occasions.
Did anyone watch the MOTD2 highlights edit?
It was basically all Arsenal highlights. It included our goal plus about 2 spurs chances. What a joke.
Then Jenas proceeded to say it was the most complete performance he'd seen from a spurs side -
Well you wouldn't have had a clue from watching the shit the BBC put out!