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marion52

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You win some you lose some, maybe he should have started Toby, easy to say now we lost, on Wednesday he got criticism for not starting Eriksen and turned out the right decision because we won.
Still don’t want to swap him for another
 

Mr Pink

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You win some you lose some, maybe he should have started Toby, easy to say now we lost, on Wednesday he got criticism for not starting Eriksen and turned out the right decision because we won.
Still don’t want to swap him for another

Easy to say when we lost? , I think most people were worried about it all week, as evidenced in the team for Arsenal thread.
 

alfie103

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I think he and verts play well together, I get what your saying but I think in this game it would have mattered.

We will never know but I don't think the reason we lost the game was because we played Foyth instead of Alderweireld. Dier, Vertonghen and Lloris also made mistakes which cost us goals.
 

rossdapep

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But we always lose there in that manner.

They get mad up for it, their cup final, go bezerk at us and we get overwhelmed.

Their players get 100% ability boost from the shock of hearing their fans actually make some noise once a season.
Then when they come to WHL they do the opposite and crumble.

Im upset we lost (was expecting it tbh) but id rather lose today and win later in the season when it can put the other team out of the running.

Let's see if they can follow up with a win at old trafford
 

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Annoyingly André Gomes, a player everyone wrote off in the summer as not good enough for us, is looking good again today.

Would’ve been just the player we needed in the middle.
 

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We will never know but I don't think the reason we lost the game was because we played foyth instead of Alderweireld. Dier, Vertonghen and Lloris also made mistakes which cost us goals.

Yes, yes, and yes.... But that's the whole friggin point, we looked so unstable as a unit, had Toby played I really doubt we would of looked as all over the place.
 

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Annoyingly André Gomes, a player everyone wrote off in the summer as not good enough for us, is looking good again today.

Would’ve been just the player we needed in the middle.

Agree, he's been absolutely fucking quality. Tenacious, vision with his passing, grabbing the game by the scruff at a tough place like Anfield... So impressed.
 

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Yes, yes, and yes.... But that's the whole friggin point, we looked so unstable as a unit, had Toby played I really doubt we would of looked as all over the place.

Why? We played the same team against Chelsea except for Vertonghen coming in for Alderweireld. If anything, you could argue Vertonghen coming back into the team made us look a bit weaker.
 

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Agree, he's been absolutely fucking quality. Tenacious, vision with his passing, grabbing the game by the scruff at a tough place like Anfield... So impressed.
I read fucking posts on here where people said he wouldn't be better than Sissoko... And this was in the summer before Sissokos recent good patch.
 

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Why? We played the same team against Chelsea except for Vertonghen coming in for Alderweireld. If anything, you could argue Vertonghen coming back into the team made us look a bit weaker.

Because we were at home against Chelsea and we got away with a clear penalty as well. But at home, its always easier to set the tempo, away from home to a rival its about how you combat their tempo.

Starting the best CB pairing in the league gives you a much better chance of doing that, where you need to be disciplined and compact as a unit.

Not starting an inexperienced, albeit talented, youngster who's already shown a propensity for rash challenges and taking risks.

It's really not fucking difficult to understand.
 

alfie103

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Because we were at home against Chelsea and we got away with a clear penalty as well. But at home, its always easier to set the tempo, away from home to a rival its about how you combat their tempo.

Starting the best CB pairing in the league gives you a much better chance of doing that, where you need to be disciplined and compact as a unit.

Not starting an inexperienced, albeit talented, youngster who's already shown a propensity for rash challenges and taking risks.

It's really not fucking difficult to understand.

It was the best centre back partnership in 15/16 and 16/17 but is it now? Alderweireld has done fairly well this year but he hasn't been imperious and Vertonghen, who had come back from a lengthy lay off, was the one who gave a needless penalty away and got sent off. You can set the team up how you want but if your experienced players make stupid mistakes then there isn't much you can do.
 

Garbob

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Oh well, have felt that if Poch gets us top 4 this season that would be fucking amazing for me. After the distratrous transfer window, no stadium as yet, the injury list we have had and there will probably be more over the course of the season top 4 is a really big for me.
 

dtxspurs

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It was the best centre back partnership in 15/16 and 16/17 but is it now? Alderweireld has done fairly well this year but he hasn't been imperious and Vertonghen was the one who gave a needless penalty away and got sent off. You can set the team up how you want but if your experienced players make stupid mistakes then there isn't much you can do.
He really has.
 

Hercules

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Whisper it very softly. Word is Toby wasn’t 100%. Has to manage his hamstrings. That is the word from within anyway.
 
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