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Saoirse

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Of course Skipp could've been worse than Eriksen. He could have given the ball away in a poor area and conceded an equaliser. There's plenty of times to put on an 18 year old and I'm firmly of the opinion we should do it more often. Under intense pressure away from home is absolutely not one of them.
 

werty

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Taking Son off was a crap decision in the end I thought. Kane scored but that was all he did right today.
Son's defensive effort meant it was a completely justified decision. That was the time to go to a back five and bring on Sanchez instead of Eriksen though.
 

ardiles

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Sissoko has been improving a lot lately but I think this has been his best for us so far, if you disregard a few minor errors.

His confidence and composure has really soared recently and especially in this game. The other players are now more eager to pass him the ball than earlier in the season.
 

HobokenSpur

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Are you fucking high? He was one of our better players in that last 30! Relieved a lot of pressure with his ball carrying
sissoko. Number 17. The French international. That one. No I’m not high. I’d like to be. But I’m not.
 

journeyman

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Hugo was very good today - we would have certainly dropped points without him.

So this may sound petty - but his ability to dive the wrong way for almost every penalty is uncanny. If you were tossing a coin, you could never be wrong so often.
 

heelspurs

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Because he knows he precipitated their comeback.

Extremely annoyed with him.
Just to make you feel better, on that nutmeg, even if it got through he had no chance to retrieving it so why even try it. And why/how are nutmegs even on the minds of a defender as an option anywhere on the pitch as, in theory, no matter where you are you are the 'last line of defense' i.e. if you lose the ball people are gonna be out of position. He wouldn't see the pitch for a long, long time if I were manager.
 

rossdapep

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I sense a few changes may be afoot now, get the impression Pochettino is fuming. Hopefully some changes at full back.
He spent a good ten seconds ranting to Perez when the camera panned to him.

What do we reckon? Trippier's pathetic display or more general team?
 

Saoirse

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Sissoko has been improving a lot lately but I think this has been his best for us so far, if you disregard a few minor errors.

His confidence and composure has really soared recently and especially in this game. The other players are now more eager to pass him the ball than earlier in the season.
And yet his absolute best is still zero end product to speak of and only our third-best CM defensively. He just isn't good enough and was never going to be. I can't help thinking if we'd given someone like Amos all his gametime down the years (and yes he would have made errors and cost us points but by goodness did Sissoko do the same in his first year) he would be the far more accomplished player now.
 

Adam456

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Why does Hugo always use the word 'aggressivity'.

Nobody else uses it.
Because English is not his first language ?

I would say don't be such a dick but perhaps you don't realise. Some abstract nouns in English end in 'ivity' e.g. exclusivity, sensitivity. Others end in 'sion' e.g. aggression or 'ism' e.g. impressionism and so on. When learning a language it is easy to get the wrong ending
 

thinktank

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Just to make you feel better, on that nutmeg, even if it got through he had no chance to retrieving it so why even try it. And why/how are nutmegs even on the minds of a defender as an option anywhere on the pitch as, in theory, no matter where you are you are the 'last line of defense' i.e. if you lose the ball people are gonna be out of position. He wouldn't see the pitch for a long, long time if I were manager.

I know...that's what's even more infuriating... it was utter madness suicide.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Those who are correctly criticising Trippier's poor judgment defensively should also bear in mind that his perfect, arching cross found our 5'-8" winger's head in an ocean of space, with such precise momentum that all Lucas had to do to score was to make good contact with it.
 

Johnny J

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Aug 18, 2012
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Dier, Dembélé and Wanyama. All injured. Every defensive midfielder we have. Are you seriously proposing that we should have four first-team defensive midfielders in the squad? That would go down well with the "play it forward faster" tendency.
No, I'm not. Dembele isn't a DM, in my opinion, he's a CM, and is past his best. His stats have been getting worse every season, and he always gets injured several times each year.

Which leaves Winks as our only proper CM, and he can't fill that role the whole season.
 
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