It looks like the Dippers will romp it this year but please can someone at least beat them this season.
That’s what gooner fans are hoping for too.
It looks like the Dippers will romp it this year but please can someone at least beat them this season.
I have always said I don't know why we don't always leave Son/Moura on the halfway line when defending corners. Look how much space Salah had for his goal, it works but no one does it.
This lot ain't as great as they think they are and are definately beatable but no-one seems to want to score against them.
So frustrating.
Running away with the league and they;re not that great. Laughable.
Theyre a damn fantastic team - defensively solid, resolute, power and pace. The one thing id say they lack is someone with a bit of guile a bit of creativity but Firminho has that i think but perhaps int he middle of the park.
The thing is their mentality is unreal.
What will probably be an unpopular opinion on this board:
If Levy had given Poch a blank chequebook in 2017 and brought in all of these rumoured targets from the last couple of years (Grealish, Dybala etc) - we'd have still finished at least 10 points behind Liverpool this season.
To which Levy might therefore say that the decisions to be "pragmatic" with resources has been justified, at least until we drop out of the Champions League. Not that I agree with that, we should be giving it a go at the very least and you never know what can happen in the cups. But it does really make me laugh when people say that we could be where Liverpool are if only we'd kicked on from 2017 and invested into the team. They've been jammy in a lot of games, but you can't argue with the stats. 91 points from a possible 93. Unbeaten in 39 league games and just one defeat in 61 league games. Not lost a league game at Anfield for almost three years, haven't even dropped a point there for a year. Seven successive clean sheets, and just 36 goals conceded since the start of LAST season (we conceded 35 in 2015/16 alone when Toby got into the PFA team of the season and we supposedly had one of the strongest defences in the league).
I just don't see how Pochettino and the 2017 set-up would have kicked on to that level - the bar has very much been raised. We may have won a trophy or two. We may have run them close if we got lucky. But I just don't see that we'd have become this good, not even City have and they've backed their manager with a LOT more than ENIC ever could have even if Levy had just said "let's fucking go for it".
I find them as annoying as any of you - but sometimes you've just gotta put your hands up and say fair enough.
Mate, we had no squad vision re everything. The aging and outgoings of key defenders and CBs, and much worse re our DMs, has just been a model of neglect!What will probably be an unpopular opinion on this board:
If Levy had given Poch a blank chequebook in 2017 and brought in all of these rumoured targets from the last couple of years (Grealish, Dybala etc) - we'd have still finished at least 10 points behind Liverpool this season.
To which Levy might therefore say that the decisions to be "pragmatic" with resources has been justified, at least until we drop out of the Champions League. Not that I agree with that, we should be giving it a go at the very least and you never know what can happen in the cups. But it does really make me laugh when people say that we could be where Liverpool are if only we'd kicked on from 2017 and invested into the team. They've been jammy in a lot of games, but you can't argue with the stats. 91 points from a possible 93. Unbeaten in 39 league games and just one defeat in 61 league games. Not lost a league game at Anfield for almost three years, haven't even dropped a point there for a year. Seven successive clean sheets, and just 36 goals conceded since the start of LAST season (we conceded 35 in 2015/16 alone when Toby got into the PFA team of the season and we supposedly had one of the strongest defences in the league).
I just don't see how Pochettino and the 2017 set-up would have kicked on to that level - the bar has very much been raised. We may have won a trophy or two. We may have run them close if we got lucky. But I just don't see that we'd have become this good, not even City have and they've backed their manager with a LOT more than ENIC ever could have even if Levy had just said "let's fucking go for it".
I find them as annoying as any of you - but sometimes you've just gotta put your hands up and say fair enough.
Mate, we had no squad vision re everything. The aging and outgoings of key defenders and CBs, and much worse re our DMs, has just been a model of neglect!
The overplaying of key players, 'cause we haven't invested in a squad is plain to see.. The simple outcomes are Kane, Alli, Eriksen etc., ain't the players they used to be. For me, it's a physical toll that's caught up with them more than anything else. We've simply neglected investment in our squad.
City have different issues to us. They had the money to do anything they wish, but Pep messed up on the defensive side of their squad, and they got unlucky with injuries. Us? We have far more long-term, structural issues across our squad.
Thta's not what i said though, is it?Running away with the league and they;re not that great. Laughable.
And it's against West Ham, so thats 3 points and +5 gd right there.Liverpool have a game in hand.
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Liverpool should give us all hope. It did not take much at all in terms of time or money for them to go from where we are now to being clearly the best team in the world by some distance and steamrolling the league. It's a funny old game and who knows where we'll be 2-3 years down the line.