Are we the most entertaining team in the country right now?

I'd say that we always are, tbh. The issue happens when teams play all out defence against us, and then we struggle to break them down and it becomes less exciting.

The thing is - that is on them, not us!

Any time where teams don't just stifle, and try and play, then we are more entertaining than anyone.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Palace and Bournemouth are more consistently 'entertaining' than we are.

We've been very erratic this season to be fair. That said, we're doing very nicely, thankyou!

May is when it matters.
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Agree, but only because teams don't stick ten in defence against them.

If they had to face what we regularly have to face, they'd be seem less entertaining.
 
mattcity5 said:
Agree, but only because teams don't stick ten in defence against them.

If they had to face what we regularly have to face, they'd be seem less entertaining.
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True, but that’s the price we pay for playing 'Pep-style' football. Personally, I thought we were more entertaining to watch during Manuel Pellegrini's first and second seasons, when teams didn't park buses every week.
 
I’m really enjoying it at the moment. Not totally serious but almost enjoying a loss more playing how we do now compared to a win the last two seasons. Hopefully only gonna get better!
 
Lavinda Past said:
Palace and Bournemouth are more consistently 'entertaining' than we are.

We've been very erratic this season to be fair. That said, we're doing very nicely, thankyou!

May is when it matters.
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Its a lot easier to be entertaining when teams get involved in basketball (end to end) games like they do against Palace and Bournemouth. We still play most of our games against a back 10 which makes it almost impossible to play exciting footy IMO.
 
The old saying "it takes two to tango" could never be truer.

We are entertaining, we've shown it loads of times when we come up against similarly minded sides. We should be giving opposition teams shit for being so negative (yes it's their right, but it kills the entertainment), not accepting descriptions of ourselves as boring when that happens.
 
dublinblue12 said:
Probably play the best football but as a neutral our games cant be that entertaining, hardly ever end to end stuff is it, boring id imagine
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As my mate said to me a while back...
Watching any team playing under Pep is "death by a thousand passes".

It goes with the territory. When you're that good, most matches end up as glorified training sessions.
 
We have:
The most possession - 61.7% (Lpool second with 57.9%)
The most goals scored - 20 (Arse, Lpool and Chels have 18)
2nd highest xG - 19.46 (Palace most with 20.19)
5th most shots - 138 (Lpool most with 156)
8th most combined goals F+A in games - 28 (Utd games most with 33)

So we are up there, yes. But other teams still try and make our games with them as boring as they can with trying to waste time and sit deep. So we still struggle with that. Although, our game against Bournemouth was one of the most entertaining games I’ve seen this season from any two teams.
 
I missed Spurs at home thankfully and in the other games since then, I have felt generally pretty optimistic about the future in the way we have played. Much better than last season when I thought we were poor, even when winning games.

Away-Not so much. I don’t think we have played particularly well.
 
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