cosmicway

Look let's face it. The attack is Sahara desert - Gobi desert. And it was n't 0-0 to blame it on them parking the bus. It was 1-0.

Only Norwich are worse than Spurs.

But I never saw him in a good position really to be utilised. Except for that once when Ziyetch made that wrong pass to him.

At least that was n't like Burnley or Everton. Under more normal circumstances I would consider it as a small loss (don't tell me that Porto who has the same colours as Brtn are better). I was about to search the Amex stadium phone number to suggest to some of you to call Ziyech, when at that moment he scored the goal. But apart from that nuts from him. Between him and Pulisitch I prefer Pulisitch. Lukaku was isolated again and our long range shooters who found some opportunities always went for the roof (CHO=Kante=Kovasitch). Kai is certainly not ready, that being the reason he is not starting. About Lukaku again I don't think he is fundamentally different from Diego Costa. The difference was that back then we had Hazard who was opening defenses with his solo runs and feeding Diego. Also Cesc. In the end we did n't like Costa, because he was a heavy man and we did n't like heavy men. But with Lukaku we changed our minds and splashed 100 mil.

We got to play football for the 4th place. Forget the league - it's gone. We may just finish second because pool are not anything special but 4th pl. is enough. Last year it became a thriller from Hammer films.

Lukaku can't possibly adapt to Tuchel's system. Same as Greaves back in AC Milan 1961. They wanted him to play fast counters alongside Altafini and one-twos but that was n't his style of play. So he moved to Spurs.

Must be from several seasons back. From the colour it looks like a player of the visiting team -Ergotelis- and they are up 1-0 against AEL. Those guys want to take him out quick and they stumble.

I think City are making progress every year while we are stop-go. Two years ago City were fancied for the CL but went down unceremoniously to Lyon. Last year they nearly made it (we beat them). Now they look even better plus 13 points ahead in the league.

Could have waited you mean. I doubt this was the feeling here though.

True, very important misses coupled with the other mishaps. But we are talking about Lukaku and possible alternatives.

DM-WB-CB are defensive positions. Defensive midfielder, wing back, centre back. Sure, we 'd like someone like Tiago and ten years younger. But it's the attack we seem to have problem, in the years after Didier-Lamps. Costa was good but we did n't really like him. Then Remy-Pato-Morata were not even EPL material and Werner lost his legs against Fyrom Macedonia. Hazard too departed and Giroud was 34.

But Kane wanted to go. Have they declared an embargo against us ? What's DM-WB-CB ? Wing back, centre back and ?

Could Hazard perform now if he returns ? My Greek experiences with failed big money transfers who returned is rather negative: Sideris: The legendary Olympiakos Piraeus striker went to Belgium in 1969. Did nothing there, returned to Olympiakos in 1971. But now he was useless - just made it in a couple of friendlies. Anastopoulos: Another legendary Olympiakos Piraeus striker who moved to Italy in 1986. He and his team failed, returned to Olympiakos but no good anymore. Tsiartas: The midfield general of AEK Athens of the 90s. Went to Sevilla in 1996, returned, was just as good as before for three-four more years. But Tsiartas was good in Sevilla too. What is your experience of similar situations ?

I was unhappy with Lukaku because Belgium lost the 2018 world cup vastly through his miserable performance in the semi (and I had some good wagers). Last summer there were the following names in the market for Chelsea centre forward: Haaland - Lukaku - Kane - Lew The first and the fourth were not for sale as it worked out. Would you be happy with us making no expensive transfer or with Kane perhaps ?

City dominated alright. But might have been a different story with the Lukaku chance. You saw what happend after the goalkeeper saved it ? The ball went to Ziyech in a shooting position. The City goalkeeper badly placed after his effort to save from Lukaku and Ziyech aims for the roof of the stadium.

The idea that a big man can be useful in a counterattacking situation is something new to me. So I can't side with Tuchel for using him but also I can't side with Rom's critics.

The only player whose brain is still ticking when in attacking situations is Kante. Unfortunately his body build is not suited for him to move inside the area.

He f*cked up one chance when he passed the ball towards Ziyech who was offside as well. In the other chance he did his best but the goalie was lucky.

Maybe Lukaku is not what he was touted to be after all but look, the heavy forwards are not suited for counterattack game. Sometimes -not very often- they do score in such games but no. In these situations you need a Werner (+ scoring ability of which the real Werner has not).

Relative improvement (if holds out).

Come on. That's him. We Greeks remember with a smirk the great legend Antoniadis (nowadays a big time lawyer) when we see Lukaku. He was never a footballer but scored 30 goals per season.

We have n't improved leaguewise (plus two serious injuries and covid incidents of course).

What do you expect ? You expect in a game where we try to do something through counterattacks Lukaku to shine ? Neither he nor Costa, Hrubesch, Chivers or anyone like that would.

Even if these things had not happened (i.e. Burnley-United-West Ham etc), City would stiil achieve the double league win against us judging from both legs. They are more fluent up in attack, that makes the difference I think and not possession as such.

Expected sh*t.