Horseshit. Schoolboy stuff. You learn very early to not play that ball inside the post. And since Hugo is so 1 footed that ball should have been wide. And even before that Tripps should have dealt with it, not let it bounce or when it did control it and take it out wide and out of danger. He is a shirker of responsibility and it shows throughout his game. It is one of the reasons that many don't like him in the team.Can't blame Trippier, he looked at Hugo and saw he was miles away, and the replay shows Hugo not shouting anything
Why? Aldous Huxley always relaxes me.Was gunna go to bed and read Brave New World......don't think Ill bother now.
You only have to see some of the names in our Squad to realise how fortunate we are to be 3rd.
Tripper, Davies, Sissoko, Llorente, Moura, Lamela, Dier, Aurier, Wanyama
None of those get in other top 6 teams. You could even include Lloris.
We have a handful of top players, at best.
We play average football. We have no pace. We play narrow.
It’s either Poch, Levy or both of them to blame for our current situation. We need to invest so much just to stand still for next season.
Quite frankly, I’m fed up of it all.
I can’t wait for the stadium. But I’m not sure what sort of team I will be watching.
My point. Zero shots, zero reaction, think I wish Kane was still injuredZero shots on target in 90 minutes is frankly pathetic.
It's 2019, haven't we moved on from using the term 'don't be a girl' as a form of insult? There are plenty of other appropriate non sexist terms that are more appropriate lol.
Been this way pretty much since Poch started IMO. We've always moved the ball painfully slow. Without Dembele now we struggle while being pressed big time.Incredibly frustrating watching that, especially after Burnley.
The biggest thing, by a mile imo, is our lack of tempo on the ball. We don't see anywhere near enough injection of quick pass and move/interchanging.
As a result we labour in possession and our easy to defend against.
I'm not sure the constant rotation at the back helps either.
But the lack of tempo is becoming more and more evident and we're playing the majority of the game tonight at a snails pace, same on Saturday.
No doubt we'll see a much bigger effort on Saturday, but for me that's our current problem.
You've previously alluded to the fact that Kane is perennially slow to get up to speed and it is ultimately costing us because we need that press from the front and not having him drop so far back into the number 10 role.I seriously don't know why Poch is allergic to a bit of structure in the team when it's required. In recent years we've seen it's great when the fluid shape with lots of free roles for players works, but that was then. Recently the narrow diamond has been increasingly found out, it's a problem sometimes when you're under the cosh, and tonight it wasn't working - with or without the ball - and we eventually got punished.
We're chasing a game, why not try eg. Son on one flank and Moura on the other, maybe even with two strikers in the box to feed as well? Very daring, I know. It would at least allow coverage across the pitch, so that with the ball there is an outball constantly, and without it you have an organised shape that helps the fullbacks. Fucking try something rather than sticking to the same script.
Also, lets be honest here, it's been like playing with 10 men with Kane the last two games. A handful, maybe two, of 'big plays' in the game doesn't impress me, because 99.9% of the rest of the game we've been carrying a passenger. Not pressing, not acting as a focal point, not running channels, others trying to do his work and abandoning their own. Cant get away with that. Someone at the club should have made the call he wasn't ready, but no one had the bollocks it seems. Fuck off can Poch be happy with his efforts this week. Maybe this weekend instead we'll see a difference...... Fucking hope so.
CE already gone. Been awful for ages
Been this way pretty much since Poch started IMO. We've always moved the ball painfully slow. Without Dembele now we struggle while being pressed big time.