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The only positive is our defence looked a lot better bar that pathetic f. Uck up. We are in desperate need of a striker with pace to complement Harry kane. If Harry Kane is off the boil then we have no plan B. I want Berahino who would provide pace and will be a good partnership for Harry. IF levy don't make a signing then we will struggle
Positives:
- Improved result and performance on last season.
- The midweek games didn't look like they affected us too much.
- Defence looked fairly solid and Aldy had a good game.
How much you can read into this with it only being the first game, remains to be seen.
Walker handled Young admirably pretty much all game. Though it may be a case of fighting fire with fire, pace v pace. Hopefully he can carry on to improve off the back of this. Real unlucky with the Og
Toby and Jan looked solid as well
Dier did well too although the idea of him playing DM doesn't particularly excite me
I thought we deserved to get something from the game., a draw would have been a fair result. Often our own fans will cry how lucky we are to scrape certain wins, by the same token we can consider ourselves a little unlucky today, as we played ok in one of the hardest fixtures of the season
Negatives:
Our bench was very weak, nothing there that can change a game of this stature
Bentaleb seems to be getting too big for his boots lately
Not taking our chances.. Eriksen should have smashed that volley instead of chipping it.. More annoyingly, Kane shot from an impossible angle when a cross would have meant a certain goal.. He needs to look up more often
Young should have scored though 2nd getting our only shot on target but at Vorm rather then corner. Mata also scuffed/dragged it wide in 1st half
Young lacked intellegience like last season in final third, his end product is really poor.
Hafi, you didn't test Vorm once all game and had to Rely on a Kyle walker own goal. You were shocking. Spurs more than deserved a draw. Was only 1 team in it
we need a bit of trickery up front . We should get that Adam Traore from barca. Young , pacy and lots of trickery And won't cost much. And off Course a pact attacker to complement Kane.We are been left behind in the attacking stakes as everyone seems to be upping their gAme.
Eriksen was absolute pants today . Needs a kick up the backside . At times looked like he couldnt be bothered . He needs competition and Poch should try caroll next game . After watching today's game don't really think the team needs much apart from what's already been said. But we need 3 points on the board asap to build confidence . Coys!!!
Alderweireld made a huge difference in defence. It just shows how one player can add huge value. If we get in a quality DM and a pacy wideman it would significantly improve our game.
comment by Topgeezah (U15856)
posted 3 hours, 21 minutes ago
Lamela didn't start - that was a positive
It was like he was Pochettinos love child last year
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Couldn't agree more.
In all fairness we looked better when Lamella come on for the last 10 mins.
Chronic predicted we would lose 0-3.
So I guess losing 0-1 can be seen as a positive from Chronic's viewpoint.
I think we need another striker to partner Kane. You can't win a football match if you dont score goals ... that's the rules
Come off it, if Lamela is our great hope in that position then we better hope we find a Bale no.2 on the left to compensate!
Poch has come out after the game and said although we played very well " we need players" .... Good poch. Now get on the boards case.
Generally I did not think we played that badly altho to be fair utd did not impress me at all.
I thought the starting lineup was reasonably well thought out considering we were away to utd BUT my big complaint is we never looked like scoring.
Ok to start the game the lineup was ok but surely we had to have something on the bench just in case we needed a goal.
What about something a bit more radical. Bentaleb played left back in one of the games towards the end of last season and it was the best game I have ever seen from him.
When Rose is fit why not play Bentaleb left back and push Rose forwards as his attacking work is a lot better than his defensive work anyway. He also has a bit of pace and we might actually trouble our opponents defnese more than once or twice a game.
Just a thought as I think we have virtually no threat from wide and with just Kane isolated up front we are going to struggle to score particularly against the top sides.
Neither Lamela or Chadli are the answer and thats for certain. I would rather play Trippier and Bentaleb as full backs and have Rose and Walker as wide men at least they have some hope of being a bit faster than a dumper truck in reverse and might actually put some heart into the game
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 8 hours, 28 minutes ago
Generally I did not think we played that badly altho to be fair utd did not impress me at all.
I thought the starting lineup was reasonably well thought out considering we were away to utd BUT my big complaint is we never looked like scoring.
Ok to start the game the lineup was ok but surely we had to have something on the bench just in case we needed a goal.
What about something a bit more radical. Bentaleb played left back in one of the games towards the end of last season and it was the best game I have ever seen from him.
When Rose is fit why not play Bentaleb left back and push Rose forwards as his attacking work is a lot better than his defensive work anyway. He also has a bit of pace and we might actually trouble our opponents defnese more than once or twice a game.
Just a thought as I think we have virtually no threat from wide and with just Kane isolated up front we are going to struggle to score particularly against the top sides.
Neither Lamela or Chadli are the answer and thats for certain. I would rather play Trippier and Bentaleb as full backs and have Rose and Walker as wide men at least they have some hope of being a bit faster than a dumper truck in reverse and might actually put some heart into the game
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Wow, surely we don't need to be that radical. Playing Bentaleb as left back? Walker as right mid?
Isn't it better to just play 5-3-2 and have them rose and walker as wing backs than moving players around?
Isn't it better to just play 5-3-2 and have them rose and walker as wing backs than moving players around?
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Thats a hell of a lot of running for two full backs every game considering the effort from the rest of our midfield players at times
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The only positive is our defence looked a lot better bar that pathetic f. Uck up. We are in desperate need of a striker with pace to complement Harry kane. If Harry Kane is off the boil then we have no plan B. I want Berahino who would provide pace and will be a good partnership for Harry. IF levy don't make a signing then we will struggle
posted on 8/8/15
Positives:
- Improved result and performance on last season.
- The midweek games didn't look like they affected us too much.
- Defence looked fairly solid and Aldy had a good game.
How much you can read into this with it only being the first game, remains to be seen.
posted on 8/8/15
Walker handled Young admirably pretty much all game. Though it may be a case of fighting fire with fire, pace v pace. Hopefully he can carry on to improve off the back of this. Real unlucky with the Og
Toby and Jan looked solid as well
Dier did well too although the idea of him playing DM doesn't particularly excite me
I thought we deserved to get something from the game., a draw would have been a fair result. Often our own fans will cry how lucky we are to scrape certain wins, by the same token we can consider ourselves a little unlucky today, as we played ok in one of the hardest fixtures of the season
Negatives:
Our bench was very weak, nothing there that can change a game of this stature
Bentaleb seems to be getting too big for his boots lately
Not taking our chances.. Eriksen should have smashed that volley instead of chipping it.. More annoyingly, Kane shot from an impossible angle when a cross would have meant a certain goal.. He needs to look up more often
posted on 8/8/15
Young should have scored though 2nd getting our only shot on target but at Vorm rather then corner. Mata also scuffed/dragged it wide in 1st half
Young lacked intellegience like last season in final third, his end product is really poor.
posted on 8/8/15
Hafi, you didn't test Vorm once all game and had to Rely on a Kyle walker own goal. You were shocking. Spurs more than deserved a draw. Was only 1 team in it
posted on 8/8/15
we need a bit of trickery up front . We should get that Adam Traore from barca. Young , pacy and lots of trickery And won't cost much. And off Course a pact attacker to complement Kane.We are been left behind in the attacking stakes as everyone seems to be upping their gAme.
Eriksen was absolute pants today . Needs a kick up the backside . At times looked like he couldnt be bothered . He needs competition and Poch should try caroll next game . After watching today's game don't really think the team needs much apart from what's already been said. But we need 3 points on the board asap to build confidence . Coys!!!
posted on 8/8/15
at Arsey
posted on 8/8/15
Alderweireld made a huge difference in defence. It just shows how one player can add huge value. If we get in a quality DM and a pacy wideman it would significantly improve our game.
posted on 8/8/15
comment by Topgeezah (U15856)
posted 3 hours, 21 minutes ago
Lamela didn't start - that was a positive
It was like he was Pochettinos love child last year
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Couldn't agree more.
posted on 8/8/15
In all fairness we looked better when Lamella come on for the last 10 mins.
posted on 8/8/15
Chronic predicted we would lose 0-3.
So I guess losing 0-1 can be seen as a positive from Chronic's viewpoint.
I think we need another striker to partner Kane. You can't win a football match if you dont score goals ... that's the rules
posted on 8/8/15
Come off it, if Lamela is our great hope in that position then we better hope we find a Bale no.2 on the left to compensate!
posted on 8/8/15
Poch has come out after the game and said although we played very well " we need players" .... Good poch. Now get on the boards case.
posted on 9/8/15
Generally I did not think we played that badly altho to be fair utd did not impress me at all.
I thought the starting lineup was reasonably well thought out considering we were away to utd BUT my big complaint is we never looked like scoring.
Ok to start the game the lineup was ok but surely we had to have something on the bench just in case we needed a goal.
What about something a bit more radical. Bentaleb played left back in one of the games towards the end of last season and it was the best game I have ever seen from him.
When Rose is fit why not play Bentaleb left back and push Rose forwards as his attacking work is a lot better than his defensive work anyway. He also has a bit of pace and we might actually trouble our opponents defnese more than once or twice a game.
Just a thought as I think we have virtually no threat from wide and with just Kane isolated up front we are going to struggle to score particularly against the top sides.
Neither Lamela or Chadli are the answer and thats for certain. I would rather play Trippier and Bentaleb as full backs and have Rose and Walker as wide men at least they have some hope of being a bit faster than a dumper truck in reverse and might actually put some heart into the game
posted on 9/8/15
comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 8 hours, 28 minutes ago
Generally I did not think we played that badly altho to be fair utd did not impress me at all.
I thought the starting lineup was reasonably well thought out considering we were away to utd BUT my big complaint is we never looked like scoring.
Ok to start the game the lineup was ok but surely we had to have something on the bench just in case we needed a goal.
What about something a bit more radical. Bentaleb played left back in one of the games towards the end of last season and it was the best game I have ever seen from him.
When Rose is fit why not play Bentaleb left back and push Rose forwards as his attacking work is a lot better than his defensive work anyway. He also has a bit of pace and we might actually trouble our opponents defnese more than once or twice a game.
Just a thought as I think we have virtually no threat from wide and with just Kane isolated up front we are going to struggle to score particularly against the top sides.
Neither Lamela or Chadli are the answer and thats for certain. I would rather play Trippier and Bentaleb as full backs and have Rose and Walker as wide men at least they have some hope of being a bit faster than a dumper truck in reverse and might actually put some heart into the game
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Wow, surely we don't need to be that radical. Playing Bentaleb as left back? Walker as right mid?
Isn't it better to just play 5-3-2 and have them rose and walker as wing backs than moving players around?
posted on 9/8/15
Isn't it better to just play 5-3-2 and have them rose and walker as wing backs than moving players around?
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Thats a hell of a lot of running for two full backs every game considering the effort from the rest of our midfield players at times
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