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i only managed to catch the second half. But from what i saw Dier for me was MOTM closely followed but Lloris. I thought Townsend did well when he came on as well.
Dier had a good game from start to finish, obviously MOTM! Only Lloris had a small claim to the MOTM award apart from Dier.
Kaboul was fucking awfull, I mean, really fucking bad. Won nothing in the air and was bullied by Cole the entire time he was on the pitch. Lamela was bad, Eriksen was bad, Adebayor was bad, Lennon was bad.
Townsend and Holtby changed the game when they came on, both should start the next game.
CAPOUE?!?! No chance, he was very poor. Got thrown off the ball way to easily and looked clumsy and slow. Dier was fantastic and I thought Hugo was his good self. Townsend came on and did well too. Eriksen poor match but credit for the through ball to Eric and Kaboul looking very vulnerable as usual unfortunately. Thought Lamela was poor as well... Hope he kicks on big time!! COYS
Capoue's blushes were spared on a couple of occasions when he lazily hacked at a couple of balls, one led to the great save from Lloris and another when he passed a simple cut back left edge of the box straight to him to a Wet Sham player in the box, can't have been easy for Kaboul going from RCB to LCB with a makeshift partner.
Same for Bentaleb as he made some big errors at the end that nearly cost us, and was caught too tired to get back on occasion.
Ade was static for large parts of the game, then had bursts of pointless running and still insists upong slowing the game down with 10 touches before he passes. Lennon was Lennon ran about but offered little. Lamela tracked back well but seemed too interested in rolling his foot over the ball and didn't really contribute in an attacking sense.
Rose did ok, Naughton did ok but for the brain fart (why have your hands so high?) but should never have seen red.
Eriksen didn't really do much and a lot of the fluid movement we've seen in pre-season was just not there for most of today with 10 or 11.
Even Kane made some sloppy tired passes and he'd only been on a few minutes.
I'll give it to Dier, for playing well in 2 positions and the winning goal. Lloris made a couple of match saving saves but his kicking again left us all having kittens, and the unnecessary (heavy) touches he takes led to a few scares...
Townsend looked lively when he came on having our first real attempts but quickly ran out of puff.
And Holtby looked spent very quickly too, although maybe as most of the team were shot by this point after playing 10 V 11 Townsend/Kane and Holtby had to work that bit extra...
Still a lot of work to do with this group but i'm sure Poch will have learned a lot from today, well i hope.
Just bizarre comment to make. You sure you weren't mistaking Kaboul for Capoue?
Also it was Kane who played the through ball to Dier for the goal.
Did you actually watch the game?
Sorry but I just disagree.Kaboul was v poor and capoue was just poor
Capoue played well.
Kane played the pass for the assist to Dier not Eriksen.
Just bizarre comment to make. You sure you weren't mistaking Kaboul for Capoue?
Also it was Kane who played the through ball to Dier for the goal.
Did you actually watch the game?
Sorry but I just disagree.
Down to ten men in a derby is about as hard as it comes.
Thought Capoue did well
It was Kane who made the pass for Diers goal.
Can't believe you got so much neg rep for this post agreed with everything apart from I think was Kane with the through ball to dier