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I think Puly is more used to playing on the right. But he showed he is really good scorer. Don't know who should play on the left from those two...

He was born to play fast counter-attacking football. Very fast and clinical, but I don't see him doing well in crowded places. His composure was really great yesterday. Maybe he is player like Pedro.

Problem is we have too many right-footers, no one is leftie.

When RLC get fit, or even before that, I think Lampard should tweak formation so two of Mount/Barkley/RLC could play together. We are stacked at that most-advanced-midfielder position, and not that good on winger positions, especially now with CHO out. Willian did not play minute of pre-season too. Maybe something like, with Mount and Barkley rotating, and Pulisic taking right wing: --------------------------------- THE STRIKER ------------------------------ -------------------------Barkley--------------------------------Pulisic--------- ---------------------------------------Mount------------------------------------- -------------------------Jorginho---------------Kante-------------------------

Kovačić could play in any second tier * club as a starter in a bit different setup. For example, Herrera-role in Man United would be perfect for him - Matić destroyer, Pogba attacking outlet. Or Dembele-role at Spurs - Wanyama destroyer, Eriksen attacking outlet. He is not bad player at all, not top world-class player of course, his problem is Jorginho who is better player. Am I happy we are getting him? I guess I am, but not very much. Because he AND Jorginho deserve to play from the start, and I'll rather kill myself than watch those two in same lineup. He will always be a bit wasted here as long as Jorginho is our main man. ________________________ * first tier are Barca, Real, Juventus, maybe Bayern, Pool and City, you know what I mean, all top clubs except those guys

Are we doing anything long-term? It would be very counter-productive to bring Mourinho after Sarri, those are two opposite philosophies, and our board want us to play attacking football. And let's be honest, most of us do too. It really baffles me that year after year we bring totally different managers, with different styles. That's why Drinkwater and Bakayoko couldn't even make a bench in Sarri system. Or even captain Cahill. Same way as Jorginho/RLC/Christensen/Mount wouldn't make it in Mourinho's setup. Kepa's great ball playing would be wasted under Mou too. So I don't know what Lampard can bring us, no one knows actually. But I sure as hell don't want another turn-around. Let's stick to attacking, possession--high-press approach, or something close to that. After all, now we have players more suited for that kind of playing.

Totally agree. We can mention our bad spell when we "bottled it", that period when we lost 6-0 to City and whatnot. Only difference is that their crisis is happening NOW, and not then. All this talk is because of the last season when United obviously overachieved with this crop of players, aka Mourinho-effect happened, and Spurs were in great form... then, when it really looked like you need to get 76 points to be worthy CL place contender. In most of the seasons in last 10 years it was enough to get 71 points to finish in top4, like we did this season.

They have no chance in (semi)final to win UCL, City have. Just being pragmatic.

Messi deserves to win Ballon dOr, it's been a long time since his last time. So really happy CR got knocked out. Next I want fuckin' City knocked out, so they don't come any closer to us in European comps success. Come on Spurs!

If we get transfer ban postponed, we should offer Barca Willian + cash for Coutinho. Really win-win for everyone, they clearly want Willy. (If Hazard leaves, of course).

With present RLC's form, I think we should let Kova go and buy ourselves some young prospect as a Jorginho substitute (who would succeed him soon) like we tried with that guy from Zenit. Kova should play regularly at some more Modrić or Dembele DLP type role, in 2-man midfield.

This is really really not true. I remember many many big games with Conte and Mourinho where we were really not up to it. UCL k-o games against Atletico and PSG especially, not to mention 2015-16 season.

Why? Except Kante, Jorginho is doing the most of our defensive work from midfield, he is really ok defensively. Or you think Kovačić is significantly better? He tried to deploy more balanced side, and our strikers made him that choice easy. Willian instead of Higuain also gives much more cover at the back. You don't need to go all-out-attack, or all-out-defense, man wanted to put balanced side, and he did it really good. We played against side which will finish league with 95+ points, on their stadium, and if we had a bit more luck with Hazard scoring or them NOT scoring two goals in 3 minutes to somewhat kill us off, draw could have been obtained.

I have more and more faith in Sarri, and no, that's not sarcasm. CHO really doesn't look ready for top opponents, and he was even worse before, hence why he didn't play. RLC looks better, but he was injured 3 times through season which interrupted his progress. Emerson is better than Alonso, but not that much better. And it made sense to play false-9 versus Liverpool, given the form of Higuain. Can't complain about man one bit, I think we played good, but Liverpool on Anfield is really tough for everyone this season.

Thank you, Conte!

Really hoping Willian, Pedro, Barkley and Kovačić gets involved in this game - that would mean CHO and RLC likely both plays against Liverpool.

Yes, but that doesn't mean that they are very top players and that what they offer is what we need in this moment with Sarri (Alonso and Willian).

Yes, we have also won the league with Alonso and Oscar as starters. Poslano sa mog SM-A310F koristeći Tapatalk

We were totally lucky... but for all that bad luck that happened this season, we deserved it. For Christs sake Sarri, drop Kovačić, start playing RLC. Kovačić should play in a formation where he doesn't need to go in opposition third. He needs to improve defensively and play role which Dembele played at Spurs. He will never be good enough to be offensive asset, I'm sorry Mateo.

Our defense is so horribly bad that even attacking teams against us choose to play all-at-the-back, because they FUCKING KNOW they need 2 chances to score one goal. For fucks sake.

We have Hazard, Kante.. and CHO? CHO?! Stop this CHO shit, like he is second coming of Garrincha. He is just a kid that may sometimes be slightly better option than Pedro or Willian, but that's it at this moment.

Sad thing about will be that in Real, even if he might not be in his the best years, he will look way better because of better players around him and it might look like those are his best years.

For the bolded - THANK YOU. I only gave him credit for his crosses. He is playing here and there in last weeks, and that should be enough for now, but he definitely must start against Dynamo. It's clear as a day that he won't improve us so much at the moment, if at all, and we can't afford that much of a risk, we are in a fight for our lives. Agree with your other points as well, this was positive game at the end, only the result was missing.

Sarri plays RLC for 37 and CHO for 33 minutes, brings out Jorginho to put WIllian and play 4-2-3-1, and no one will give him credits for that? People are always moaning that he doesn't switch to "plan B" or that he doesn't give chance to young lads. And I know most of us are hurt by Sarri's decisions made in past, but he was really good yesterday. EDIT: Not to mention that fuckin Alonso is nowhere near first XI, which is also very very great. Also, RLC said himself that he is slowly getting minutes because of his back problems, hence why Kova started. We were clearly superior side and got a bit unlucky with their goal, our defence is really awful. They are 7th at the table for a reason. They took points from almost all big sides this season. And about CHO - he did some good crosses, but he wasn't much better than what Pedro is usually overall. It's one thing to score in EL, and other thing to score in EPL with defensive side like Wolves. CHO made some awful clumsy mistakes, I remember that he once passed directly to them actually.

Kudos to Sarri, did everything really well today. Poslano sa mog SM-A310F koristeći Tapatalk