-
Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
- Thread starter JerusalemMan
- Start date
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
Harsh. Watch Dier today. Brilliant. Really brilliant - his best display for as long as I can remember and he's been excellent most of the time since the first lockdown. Watch Reguilon's positioning as they got a ball across the box right at the end. Excellent. It's not just about numbers.
nayenezgani
Jimmy Neighbour
Exactly. The defensive unit today gave us the opportunity to snatch the win. Priceless clean sheet.
StephenH
David Ginola
We were playing WBA remember?
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
Yeah they aren’t great and haven’t exactly been scoring for fun this season but they did score 3 v Chelsea and 2 v Everton. You still need to defend well and be strong which our lads did and were. Defensively, I was very happy with us.
Apart from Moura’s suicidal Winks impression in injury time. Jesus wept, nearly threw something at my new telly when he did that!
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
He did it twice. Couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I hope Jose gives him a kick in the nuts coz that sort of brick costs goals. Sadly, Moura seems to only have one way of playing.
nayenezgani
Jimmy Neighbour
He doesn't engage his brain, does he? It's all instinct and manic intuition.
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
There was one where he dribbled right back into the middle of the pitch and lost it. Firstly, don’t dribble unless you’ve complete control of the ball which he didn’t have. Secondly, if you’re going to do it, go towards the touch line.
StephenH
David Ginola
We are very defensive now. I don’t like this, I prefer more of a balance favouring the offensive side of the game.
Mourinho is a defensively minded coach sadly. He imho, is overreacting to the West Ham result.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
We’re really not
We have had a lot of games in short succession and have created the better chances
That’s a basic for teams
Don’t forget teams are defending better now as a whole (all teams) now their actually beat to match fit
Bullet
Luka Modric
It was like watching an Under 9's team, the way Moura dribbled into the congested middle. Brainless amateur play.
I'm with you, it's the same as last season, sacrificing our attacking play to be defensively solid.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Without the brain fart errors that cost us
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Whose scored 20?
braineclipse
Willie Hall
Second highest number of goals scored so far this season. We've had a somewhat easy run, but still.
We're still quite fast from fully settled. Reguilon, Doherty, Hojbjerg and Bale all new signings starting today. Ndombele imo very much like a new signing.
I believe we can get much better, and we as fans should try that thing or withholding judgement for a bit. I've heard good things about that.
braineclipse
Willie Hall
To some extent, yes.
Only really in terms of one player (Sissoko) in terms of player selection.
We're very good attacking on the break, we're very good when we find space in behind. When those aren't possible we struggle quite a bit more. Need to keep developing our play, but developing that attacking play against well organised hard working teams is one of the hardest things in football. It will take time if it happens. The potential is there. More to come from quite a lot of our players and we're yet to see Ndombele and Lo Celso together for any meaningful time at least.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
That’s normal though
Very few teams batter everyone every game
And right now 9 points and 2 clean sheets from 3 is pretty good going
Especially as we are the team in those games creating the better chances