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I thought we were really poor for much of the first half and even in spells in the second half, and we won 6-0. Bizarre! I suppose that's what you get when you take your chances. I mentioned to a lad at the ground about Bayern München last night - they were poor all game and won 0-3 in Dortmund.
Until the 28th minute it was three or four passes and we'd give it back to Spurs with sloppy and somewhat lazy play. Yaya was particularly poor. And they were outnumbering us in central midfield and were the better side on the ball.
We then started to get hold of the ball with Nasri and Fernandinho both taking responsibility to get us keeping possession better, and we were overall much better from then on (but slipped into strange passages of play here and there in the second half).
Some of our counter attacking play was superb - we saw the same against United - yet we don't play in this manner whatsoever away from home when it's clear to see constant meaningless possession in the opposition's half doesn't always work. I'd like to see us adopt some of these sort of tactics when things aren't going our way at away games. There's no way poorer teams will keep the ball or defend as well as they do camped in their own box with us breaking on them at pace and with quality like we have done in a number of the ten goals we scored against United and Spurs. I suppose that's another discussion though.
In the end we won 6-0 and it actually could have been more had we taken more of our chances against a team who had the best goals conceded record before today and, as I say, I don't even think we were that good.
Until the 28th minute it was three or four passes and we'd give it back to Spurs with sloppy and somewhat lazy play. Yaya was particularly poor. And they were outnumbering us in central midfield and were the better side on the ball.
We then started to get hold of the ball with Nasri and Fernandinho both taking responsibility to get us keeping possession better, and we were overall much better from then on (but slipped into strange passages of play here and there in the second half).
Some of our counter attacking play was superb - we saw the same against United - yet we don't play in this manner whatsoever away from home when it's clear to see constant meaningless possession in the opposition's half doesn't always work. I'd like to see us adopt some of these sort of tactics when things aren't going our way at away games. There's no way poorer teams will keep the ball or defend as well as they do camped in their own box with us breaking on them at pace and with quality like we have done in a number of the ten goals we scored against United and Spurs. I suppose that's another discussion though.
In the end we won 6-0 and it actually could have been more had we taken more of our chances against a team who had the best goals conceded record before today and, as I say, I don't even think we were that good.