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Weight was on wrong foot (and his position seemed slightly off).
Hugo seemed a bit fragile today.
Weight was on wrong foot (and his position seemed slightly off).
"Tottenham Hotspur you'll always be shit"
Pathetic performance today - only Sanchez and Sissoko did ok.
2-0 flattered us massively, Arsenal deserved a bigger victory given their dominance.
I think you see here why we as a club will probably never win anything.
Rose on his was out, I expect Alli to leave also, his performance was shockingly bad, his pass completion must have been less than 50%.
We lost because we couldn't do the basics of controlling the ball or passing to team mates, especially amongst our forward players.
Arsenal in contrast looked very solid at the back and fluid going forward - we never looked like scoring a goal at any point in the match.
I think in the context of the game, we did very well to lose only 2-0.
So what. They’re still behind us. We’ll still finish above them. They won’t put a performance in like that all season. Neither will we.Hate to break it to you, but they’re only one point behind us.
To be fair a game like this can change a season, we aren't going to win this league this year anyway because City are miles ahead and can't see anybody stopping them.
Worried about us dropping off the pace because we were shockingly bad today, worst I have seen us play in a NLD.
People, don't get carried away.
Kane was clearly off colour, probably because he's not 100% fit. Alli had been nursing a hamstring issue. Those things matter when you play games at this level. The performance was poor but the goals conceded were marginal – you could argue with either. Yes, Arsenal were better but what got them over the line were tiny margins that could have easily gone the other way. People forget that we also had Alderweireld and Wanyama missing. That's the spine of the team either out injured or off colour.
The one worry is we've played the top 6 fours times and lost 3 – and in each of those defeats none of our players have scored (Chelsea was an own goal). That's a worrying trend. It suggests that head to head we're a weaker team compared to our competition. The only one we haven't played is Manchester City, by some distance the strongest side in the division.
I'm not sure you'd get any of those for £30M in today's market but I accept your point. I still feel that if we have a full squad of fit players (in particular Toby - to free up Dier, Dembele (who looked crocked today to me), Wanyama and Lamela we don't play Sissoko in any important games at all. In fact without Sissoko I'm not sure who would play in midfield with our current injuries - Eriksen with Son further forward?I actually bad mouth a half -fit Kane and the constantly mis-performing Dele (who shouldn't even start these days) -I don't blame Eriksen - he needs players to create space for him and that ain't going to happen if those two aren't on their game. As for Sissoko - he looked Ok today - but he's no game changer, is one dimensional and has poor technical ability - I don't see how he adds value or improves our team. He can get by - but I want more from a 30 million pound player. I'd swap him in a heart beat for a Zaha, a Rashford or a Salah - they're the types of players we should be buying for that kind of money. And if you can't see that - I suggest you buy some bi-focals.
Please feel free to enlighten me as to how and what you think Sissoko brings to the team?!? Direct running with the ball &...........works hard &........
Back off the ledge. We were as awful today as I’ve seen us in a long time. But we’ll recover. We always have as long as Poch has been manager. We have a long run of games after Dortmund against sub par opposition. It’s a chance for us to get healthy and we’ll kick the shit out of these fucks when they come to Wembley in a few months."Tottenham Hotspur you'll always be shit"
Pathetic performance today - only Sanchez and Sissoko did ok.
2-0 flattered us massively, Arsenal deserved a bigger victory given their dominance.
I think you see here why we as a club will probably never win anything.
Rose on his was out, I expect Alli to leave also, his performance as shockingly bad, his pass completion must have been less than 50%.
We lost because we couldn't do the basics of controlling the ball or passing to team mates, especially amongst our forward players.
Arsenal in contrast looked very solid at the back and fluid going forward - we never looked like scoring a goal at any point in the match.
I think in the context of the game, we did very well to lose only 2-0.
But they were both absolutely awful, honestly, we probably would have been better if Alli had gotten himself sent off nice and early, he was that bad.
Always is against gooners for some reasonHugo seemed a bit fragile today.
Pathetic.
Arsenal were excellent but we were absolute shit.
We are becoming extremely proficient at losing the games which matter.
People, don't get carried away.
Kane was clearly off colour, probably because he's not 100% fit. Alli had been nursing a hamstring issue. Those things matter when you play games at this level. The performance was poor but the goals conceded were marginal – you could argue with either. Yes, Arsenal were better but what got them over the line were tiny margins that could have easily gone the other way. People forget that we also had Alderweireld and Wanyama missing. That's the spine of the team either out injured or off colour.
The one worry is we've played the top 6 fours times and lost 3 – and in each of those defeats none of our players have scored (Chelsea was an own goal). That's a worrying trend. It suggests that head to head we're a weaker team compared to our competition. The only one we haven't played is Manchester City, by some distance the strongest side in the division.