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[give it to gordon]

Can I just say, spurs should be docked points for that horrendous kit yesterday.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Can I just say, spurs should be docked points for that horrendous kit yesterday.

Wow great minds and all that!! I was just coming on to ask what on earth they were wearing and what colour it was supposed to be!! It was horrendous you are quite correct, in fact I’d go so far as to say it should be banned and the match either awarded to us or declared null and void!! ;-)





I’ve only just watched MOTD2 so only just seen it.

 

[Cambo]

We just lack midfield control. Rodri is doing a lot more than he should be doing , Gundo last season helped control the midfield. We miss a Gundo type player probably why Pep wants Paqueta his work rate and ability would transform our midfield. Would help Rodri massively. Midfield is so important to how we play , our midfield last season was the best in Europe. But we’ve lost two of the most crucial parts to that midfield in Gundo who has left and Kev to injury.

We miss midfield control because Pep is playing one less midfielder than last season. Alvarez doesn’t do the same midfield work that Gundo did. This isn’t meant to be a criticism of Alvarez. He’s just not a midfielder, so we’re one short. And as you say we’re also missing KDB too, that’s a huge out.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Let's use the from

Well let's use the anger from the appalling decision (or non decision) from the referee as the rocket up the arse the team needs and be the catalyst to fire the team up into getting a winning run together. We've done it before, we can do it again. There's 24 games left and we are only 4 points off the top, the others will slip up and have their bad patches.

It could have been worse, we could have lost those 3 games and been even further off the pace. Is it a case of that we've been spoilt over the past decade and are becoming "entitled" to win everything. Let's hope not, let's remember that there will be barren periods between trophies but hopefully not the 35 years we had to endure before 2011.

I agree with your comments but my original post wasn't aimed solely at the last three games.
We were just as sloppy in some of the matches that were eventually won, (Bramall Lane being the best example), and even if we'd won 4-3 yesterday it.wouldnt have resolved our wider issues.
As.you say, it's not a disaster, and we've faced far worse problems.. However I just think it will take another transfer before we're back firing on all cylinders

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

All very true, but the mini-window in which we had Stones this season was comfortably our best football of the season - the 6-1 against Bournemouth and 0-3 at United had all of the stamps of a solid City side. It's really telling that when Dias, Stones and Rodri all play, we look a massively better side.

Not disagreeing, but if we're that reliant on Stones being fit, then we need a decent transfer window to cater for when he isn't fit.

 

[samuelyeboah]

I know we're in a "try to locate why things aren't working" mode but may I suggest things are fine and it just sort of sometimes happens in football. We've crushed spurs on the stats and the eye test yesterday, created loads of chances and didn't win. This happened to us even on our best season. We're 5 wins out of 5 in the CL, were 3 points behind top spot in the PL in December. We've already won the super cup this season. Things are fine! We'll still be up there end of the season.

 

[dadnlad]

Picking up avoidable bookings through stupidity meaning players will miss important tough away games is also poor imo.

think grealish would know 1 booking and miss villa game

 

[Eccles Blue]

Guess it was a bad day at the office day, but we really must get that office cleaned and all repairs made..... that's repairs to personnel of course, like JB, Nunes and KDB.
Plus we have 2 suspensions don't we? Jack and Rhodri?

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Got a feeling haaland will be made an example of as well

 

[BrianW]

We have, contrary to popular belief, a small squad.

We are currently missing KDB and John Stones, both of whom are key players.

We have other injuries too. And recruits who are (hopefully) adjusting to Pep's system and demands.

Despite all this, inexplicably, we are not in mid-table.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

think grealish would know 1 booking and miss villa game

Are you implying he did it deliberately. Or hat he should have known?

 

[jacko74]

Picking up avoidable bookings through stupidity meaning players will miss important tough away games is also poor imo.

Stupid bookings that players of certain other teams never seem to receive.

 

[ancoats]

Every club goes through a bad patch in the season at times, But it's damage limitation like getting the draw rather than losing that keeps you going, if you look at the table you still fancy us kicking on when it counts, 3 points off the top is nothing and it could be the midweek games that we can go back top of the league,

I will say one thing, when we click and play like we can somebody soon is going to get a thumping

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Got a feeling haaland will be made an example of as well

You can bet your bottom dollar it will be highlighted in the media until charges are brought.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Wow great minds and all that!! I was just coming on to ask what on earth they were wearing and what colour it was supposed to be!! It was horrendous you are quite correct, in fact I’d go so far as to say it should be banned and the match either awarded to us or declared null and void!! ;-)





I’ve only just watched MOTD2 so only just seen it.

Never open your curtains and it's one of those grey, miserable, depressing overcast days and just think to yourself "Wow, wouldn't a football kit the colour of outside be just lovely"?

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Stupid bookings that players of certain other teams never seem to receive.

There was a worse example of kicking the ball away from a Spurs player (RW in 2nd half but can't remember who it was, possible Lo Celso).

 

[Pontypool Blue]

Never open your curtains and it's one of those grey, miserable, depressing overcast days and just think to yourself "Wow, wouldn't a football kit the colour of outside be just lovely"?

On Me old Black and white telly, I could hardly tell WTF (haaland©) was going on!

 

[lazerblue]

F365 to our rescue :) :) (as many times when media is shitting all over us). It still doesn't make feel better after three draw.

Manchester City: The crisis
Manchester City drawing three straight games is getting some people very giddy about a possible title race, as if absolutely nothing has been learned.

City have not lost any of those games but Oliver Brown in the Telegraph is enjoying the notion that they might:


That’s absolute bollocks. They’re closer to Arsenal than they were at the same stage last season, two years ago they were a point behind Chelsea at this juncture and it’s literally only three years since they were eighth after 14 games.

The last time they were top of the Premier League table after 14 games was 2018. They have won four titles in the intervening five years.


Because comparing 18 games to four games is a rock-solid statistical model.


And 17 of those chances came v Chelsea.

And as for Tottenham, the xG for that game was 2.6 to 0.5 in Manchester City’s favour; they did ‘barely give Tottenham a look-in’. If you’re going to talk about ‘statistical merit’, maybe look at some statistics, fella.


And last week v Liverpool, he dribbled past 12 players. His dribbling ‘rate of return’ is the highest in the Premier League by some margin. He had one quite poor game that Brown happened to watch.

Brown then writes about the lack of control being exhibited by Manchester City this season, whose crisis takes them all the way down to third after a run of games against Big Six sides that they will not face again until mid-February, and fails to mention one quite significant fact: They are missing literally the best midfielder in the Premier League.

It seems relevant

F365 to our rescue :) :) (as many times when media is shitting all over us). It still doesn't make feel better after three draw.

Manchester City: The crisis
Manchester City drawing three straight games is getting some people very giddy about a possible title race, as if absolutely nothing has been learned.

City have not lost any of those games but Oliver Brown in the Telegraph is enjoying the notion that they might:


That’s absolute bollocks. They’re closer to Arsenal than they were at the same stage last season, two years ago they were a point behind Chelsea at this juncture and it’s literally only three years since they were eighth after 14 games.

The last time they were top of the Premier League table after 14 games was 2018. They have won four titles in the intervening five years.


Because comparing 18 games to four games is a rock-solid statistical model.


And 17 of those chances came v Chelsea.

And as for Tottenham, the xG for that game was 2.6 to 0.5 in Manchester City’s favour; they did ‘barely give Tottenham a look-in’. If you’re going to talk about ‘statistical merit’, maybe look at some statistics, fella.


And last week v Liverpool, he dribbled past 12 players. His dribbling ‘rate of return’ is the highest in the Premier League by some margin. He had one quite poor game that Brown happened to watch.

Brown then writes about the lack of control being exhibited by Manchester City this season, whose crisis takes them all the way down to third after a run of games against Big Six sides that they will not face again until mid-February, and fails to mention one quite significant fact: They are missing literally the best midfielder in the Premier League.

It seems relevant.

he's obviously not heard that mansour is trying to buy the telegraph, P45 incoming

 

[murcian blue]

Not sure why he even should be last man. They are a countering team, we are susceptible on the counter, but we persistently have 9-10 players in the final third for set pieces

When we have a corner Walker should stay back to cover any fast break

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

We have, contrary to popular belief, a small squad.

We are currently missing KDB and John Stones, both of whom are key players.

We have other injuries too. And recruits who are (hopefully) adjusting to Pep's system and demands.

Despite all this, inexplicably, we are not in mid-table.

We also have the likes of Kovacic, Nunes, Gomez and Phillips who are not deemed good enough to start making our squad even smaller on options to change a game or rotate. It’s putting pressure on the other core 14-15 players who don’t get rotated and results in more knocks and injuries.