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Only that way you can score against teams playing to keep the score like West Ham, or from 30 yards out or from direct corner kick. So the second half was hoofball but no power inside the box, no movement to win rebounds.

Was Mudryk for Chuku, Chilwell for Caicedo.

I did n't say I admired Poch either today.

Not really. Wingers are better for counterattacks but most of the matches we play are like that. Vinicious Junior is not performing only when his team is counterattacking !

Apart from Jackson it was a Potter team playing today under a better -we think- manager.

In the first half we definitely looked like a team able to score. Second half was Potter ball. Don't know what happened but we were sh*te, not counting Mudryk or Caicedo's mistakes.

He 's not a premier player. He could do that in Ukraine against Dnipro-1 and other schoolboys. Those clever scouts should go to the Faroe islands next and buy the best fisherman.

Look the first half was unlucky. 1-1 instead of 2-0. In the second half we were a Potter +++ team, even before their second. About Caicedo what can I say on a first day ? Never mind the pen he made two childish errors before that.

I wish we kept Havertz or Mount and sold Mudryk.

Appalling second half - boring to a neutral spectator. West Ham were going to park the bus in any case and the first ten minutes of sloppiness gave Antonio the second goal. Mudryk can stay in west London if he wants to sell pizza.

Can you believe this ?

Enzo tried to make a Jorginho run but in the end it was obvious for the keeper where the ball was going.

Who was after Jorginho ?

Badly executed penalty. Don't we have any good penalty takers ?

Russia has football hooligans too ? And from all those who are known to cause trouble abroad ?

THE MAP OF FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM IN EUROPE From what I have heard -without being certain- I believe football hooliganism exists in the following countries: Cyprus - Greece - Turkey - Serbia - Croatia - Italy - France - Spain I go from east to west. Also Ukraine but maybe after the war they stopped doing these things. Among those how many have carried out actions in foreign territory ? I know the English in the old days before Heysel, the Croats and the Serbs sometimes. Others ?

I 'm afraid this looks like another Kante story.

Aube scored twice against Panathinaikos. There were two more Marseille goals in which he had direct involvement, fractionally offside disallowed by VAR. A small difference in pace compared to premier makes all that difference in a player ! In Zagreb Dinamo lost also because of lack of pace. Whereas they pressed and dominated in the first half, in the second half the Dinamos were ... searching for water ! So AEK found ways to play their game and they could have won by more.

Panathinaikos is said to be the team with the bat's bone. Look what happened yesterday.

the bat's bone is a potent talisman

Panathinaikos too went through - the bat's bone worked.

AEK beat Dinamo 2-1 in Zagreb. The Croats were 1-0 up at half time but in the second half they were crushed - could have been 5-1 for the Greek team. In the last five minutes with AEK 2-1 ahead their keeper Livakovitch made four (4 !) fantastic saves to keep the score down. Meanwhile Panathinaikos looks like going down to Marseille.

Well, in Greece they think Thatcher was a heroic figure, even those who are anti-Tory. But maybe the five year ban was not her idea. Uefa ordered it and Thatcher knowing of it announced it first. This is what I read elsewhere. I strongly believe governments and UEFA could stop hooliganism for good, but a few posts above I describe their antics.

Lampard used to do that, also Tuchel. Yesterday we played well - like against Dortmund in Germany if we compare with recent Chelsea matches. But just like then we could not find the net.

I remember England v. Paraguay in 1986, the match before the hand of god. It was a stadium full of NF hooligans. When England players were walking outside to collect balls for a throw in they were being shrouded by an NF flag hanging from the terraces (much to their dismay). But nevertheless M.T. made a name and afterwards very little things happen when as rightly you say it was absolute carnage. So whatever, I 'm talking about Thatcher method rather than Thatcherism as such.