This Stoke defeat?

[Matt.D]

The high number of fouls is because we get caught in possession so often and when tackled lunge out to get the ball back.

Speed things up, please.

Yaya & Vinnie are responsible for a lot of the fouls we concede. Toure because he's a lazy bastard who can't be arsed chasing opponents so just pulls them back or trips them. Vinnie has a habit of making absolutely needless challenges which often result in fouls from behind.

 

[cleavers]

The high number of fouls is because we get caught in possession so often and when tackled lunge out to get the ball back.

Speed things up, please.

Yaya & Vinnie are responsible for a lot of the fouls we concede. Toure because he's a lazy bastard who can't be arsed chasing opponents so just pulls them back or trips them. Vinnie has a habit of making absolutely needless challenges which often result in fouls from behind.

We should sell them both.

 

[Paulpowersleftfoot]

The high number of fouls is because we get caught in possession so often and when tackled lunge out to get the ball back.

Speed things up, please.

Yaya & Vinnie are responsible for a lot of the fouls we concede. Toure because he's a lazy bastard who can't be arsed chasing opponents so just pulls them back or trips them. Vinnie has a habit of making absolutely needless challenges which often result in fouls from behind.

We should sell them both.

Preferred Michel Vonk and Jamie Pollock anyway

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The high number of fouls is because we get caught in possession so often and when tackled lunge out to get the ball back.

Speed things up, please.

Yaya & Vinnie are responsible for a lot of the fouls we concede. Toure because he's a lazy bastard who can't be arsed chasing opponents so just pulls them back or trips them. Vinnie has a habit of making absolutely needless challenges which often result in fouls from behind.

I know what you mean but don't buy your logic.

Yaya isn't 'lazy'. He's a big unit and immobile over a yard or two. So players do run past him and he does have to pull them back at times, as a deep midfielder.

One of vinny's biggest strengths is the way he bullies strikers, and the way he comes from behind them and won't let them pick up the ball. He's so good at it that he does it all the time to 'hole' players too, so people like Rooney can't get in the game. But doing that is always going to cost the occasional foul, because of a mistimed challenge or a refereeing mistake. Overall it's a pric worth paying.

 

[Mattyc55]

Still fucking annoying me this.. wish we had Arsenal on Saturday I fancy us there

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

This defeat is grating me, I'm sure other folk feel the same way. Still sick to my stomach that we were so inept.

 

[cleavers]

Still sick to my stomach that we were so inept.

We weren't inept, we did everything we could to score, and luck on their part prevented it. We compounded that by giving away a dreadfully easy goal, where we let them waltz through us first, and our keeper had a mare second.

Other than that they showed no ambition to win the game, just bore the crap out of the watching public, and we had more than enough chances to win it comfortably, shit happens as they say. Its not an excuse I agree, but we weren't inept as the stats showed.

 

[sam-caddick]

You hear about players wanting to play their next game as soon as possible after a bad defeat and that is what worries me a little when you consider we are in a two week international break only to come back to a week consisting of three games against Arsenal, Bayern Munich, and Chelsea.

What I am pleased about is that the Arsenal game is the first Premier League match of the weekend and not a Sunday evening or Monday night game when we will likely have been put under pressure with another Chelsea win.

4 points from Arsenal and Chelsea is a must though with a point at Arsenal and a win at home to Chelsea, bearing Chelsea is a must!

 

[BlueAnorak]

Still sick to my stomach that we were so inept.

We weren't inept, we did everything we could to score, and luck on their part prevented it. We compounded that by giving away a dreadfully easy goal, where we let them waltz through us first, and our keeper had a mare second.

Other than that they showed no ambition to win the game, just bore the crap out of the watching public, and we had more than enough chances to win it comfortably, shit happens as they say. Its not an excuse I agree, but we weren't inept as the stats showed.

Balderdash Cleavers.
We were slow to get the ball forward, slow to spread the ball across the pitch, didn't shoot often enough from long range and our final passes were sloppy. Jovetic & Aguero wasn't working as a pair and Sagna's overlapping was frankly awful (though the last 3 points should improve over the next month).
We were pants.

 

[Blue Is the Opposite of Blue]

Lol ugh.