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Have to say I was hugely impressed with that performance from Lamela.
Won't be long before this lad truly takes off. His touch, vision, and work rate were top notch today.
Dembele was instrumental to our dominance, drove us forward. Much, much better showing from him.
Chadli is developing that great habit of popping up in the right spaces at the right time.
Those three were definitely the pick of the bunch but I'm giving my MOTM to Lamela. The most determined player out there and always looking to win the ball back and some of his touches were just beautiful.
In terms of the game I thought it was an excellent performance overall. The two goals we conceded were about as ugly as they come. Johnson did well to engineer a bit of space for a shot but it was a scruffy sort of attempt which took a deflection - that's what beat Lloris, you see it so often. The second was just a lack of concentration, so avoidable.
That said we should of had at least 4/5 goals today. Adebayor should of had at least one, we had two decent penalty shouts, twice struck the woodwork and there were several other promising attacks that should of came to more, or at least a few of them anyway.
This game has a habit of punishing you if you fail to punish the opposition when you should do - and that's what happened today. Poyet looked absolutely delighted with the point - which is normally a pretty strong indication of how the game played out.
All that said, whilst the result was disappointing the performance certainly wasn't. Yes there are plenty of things to be improved on but we're seeing progression and Poch's style coming out more and more. We're still well in the early stages of development but that really excited me today.
The fluidity of some of the moves we put together were as good as I've seen. I would love to see Soldado given a go behind that three, Christ knows how many he'd score if his confidence was flowing. Sort of game today were he could of helped himself.
Won't be long before this lad truly takes off. His touch, vision, and work rate were top notch today.
Dembele was instrumental to our dominance, drove us forward. Much, much better showing from him.
Chadli is developing that great habit of popping up in the right spaces at the right time.
Those three were definitely the pick of the bunch but I'm giving my MOTM to Lamela. The most determined player out there and always looking to win the ball back and some of his touches were just beautiful.
In terms of the game I thought it was an excellent performance overall. The two goals we conceded were about as ugly as they come. Johnson did well to engineer a bit of space for a shot but it was a scruffy sort of attempt which took a deflection - that's what beat Lloris, you see it so often. The second was just a lack of concentration, so avoidable.
That said we should of had at least 4/5 goals today. Adebayor should of had at least one, we had two decent penalty shouts, twice struck the woodwork and there were several other promising attacks that should of came to more, or at least a few of them anyway.
This game has a habit of punishing you if you fail to punish the opposition when you should do - and that's what happened today. Poyet looked absolutely delighted with the point - which is normally a pretty strong indication of how the game played out.
All that said, whilst the result was disappointing the performance certainly wasn't. Yes there are plenty of things to be improved on but we're seeing progression and Poch's style coming out more and more. We're still well in the early stages of development but that really excited me today.
The fluidity of some of the moves we put together were as good as I've seen. I would love to see Soldado given a go behind that three, Christ knows how many he'd score if his confidence was flowing. Sort of game today were he could of helped himself.
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