Pizy

I haven’t even been able to watch AFTV in what feels like a couple of months because these cunts keep quietly winning. 😒😒😒 Arse going out of every competition has been the best thing that could’ve happened to them and I’m sure Arteta is thanking his lucky stars. Full, 100% focus on the PL and having fresh players for every match. Because of this, those matches they have against the top teams that you’d expect them to lose may suddenly become much easier for them. They can luck out and catch those sides when they need to rotate for other comps. Feels like I say this with a different team behind us every week, but they are probably our biggest threat now. United and Spuds are too woefully inconsistent.

I just think he needs to find a club that’s as bloodthirsty to constantly improve as he is. It could’ve worked out here if we didn’t pull our usual “let’s stand still after winning” bullshit. Inter sold him on an ambitious project and then pulled the rug from under him by telling him that they had to sell for financial reasons. If he went to a club like PSG who will buy him every player he asked for I think he’d be happy.

I see Spuds have completely broken Conte. Explosive and damning post match comments from him. Most people questioned from the start why on Earth he would want to go there. A club of perennial losers with a chairman who notoriously doesn’t help his managers. A serial winner and highly demanding manager like Conte who is at his peak (unlike Mou when he was there) was crazy for choosing to go there. Conte should’ve waited until this coming summer. Could’ve perhaps had the PSG job or something.

Remember when we were comfortably ahead of Liverpool? Remember when we looked superior to them with 11 men and held them with 10? It’s so fucking gutting that injuries completely killed our chance at contending with the top 2. Would we have enough attacking firepower even with James and Chilly the whole season to win the title ahead of those two? Probably not. But we could’ve at least made it respectable. Seeing a Liverpool side who we made look average (and who were average to start the season) likely finish a country mile ahead of us is so annoying.

United are absolutely abysmal but Atleti have so few attacking ideas that it probably won’t matter. Think United gets through the tie by the skin of their teeth. Probably a CR7 penalty in the second leg or something.

I’m talking more outside the box or strikes from distance. He is a huge threat once he gets into the box but even right in the edge of the box he doesn’t have a go often enough.

He’s got this weird inability to strike a football with power. In general I mean, not specifically this match. Very much like Kovacic, it’s very strange that such super technically gifted footballers can’t strike the ball well. Every time Kai has a shot from distance it seems to be a soft roller across the ground that harmlessly gets to the keeper. Needs to add this skill to his game to ascend to the next level and become a truly elite striker.

Injury FC 😬😬😬 Not just any injuries, but injuries to our most important and in form players time and again. FFS!

If Jorginho returns to Italy this summer Sanches should be target #1. Kante, Kova, Sanches, and Connor G would be a lovely set of options.

They haven’t parked the bus, though. They’re aggressively pressing in midfield and forcing us to play quicker than Kante and Kova want to.

Blistering opening 10 minutes in which Havertz could’ve had a hat trick and then we lost all energy and allowed them to press us and rush us into mistake after mistake and let Renato Sanches single handedly boss the midfield. Alonso is clearly being targeted and you can see Thiago getting pissed off at him for having to bail him out like 3 times. Sanches is one hell of a player, btw. I wanted us to get him last summer and would love him still. He’s awesome on the ball and calm as hell.

I mean, if we want to continue to get nowhere near City and Liverpool, sure.

If Roman is indeed heavily sanctioned I hope our club hierarchy are aggressively pursuing player that will be free agents. Lots and lots of top players that could improve us without having to spend a penny on transfer fees. Should take a page out of some of the other top European clubs who do so.

He’s going to score tomorrow, 100% guarantee it. Then he’ll look like Bambi on ice and have 4 touches against Liverpool at the weekend and the cycle continues.

With all the intense criticism and everyone shitting on him I bet Lukaku will be extra motivated for this one. Because God knows he’s going to start. 🙄 Would be nice to see Werner in the starting XI.

If by some miracle we’re able to move on from him this summer we need to take a page out of Liverpool’s book in the search for a new striker. We need to stop shopping at the very highest price bracket and get creative. Scout around at medium sized or smaller clubs and find try to find the über talent that we can develop into a star. Mané, Salah, Jota, Diaz. All sub-£50m and developed into £100m caliber players eventually. There’s gotta be more of these sorts of players in Spain or Portugal or Germany. Dudes that are at midtable clubs but are ready for a step up. Either that or just get rid of Pulisic and Werner and sign some super creative AM’s and go the City striker-less route. We already have a system where we dominate 70% of the ball. So get tricky player who can actually do something with it.

You can really see it especially in his face. He had the chiseled jaw line and thin looking face. His torso was also lean looking. Now he looks like he packed on quite a few pounds.

I was so hopeful when he looked like a super fit beast against the likes of Arsenal and Villa early in the season. He genuinely looked like a changed player from his previous PL stints. Highly mobile, the ball would stick when it went up to him, he was tossing CB’s around for fun (remember him humiliating Pablo Mari?) and he was scoring brilliant goals. He looked like an absolute menace like Drogba Version 2.0. These days he looks like the Man United at the very end version of Lukaku. Overweight, barely moves, terrible body language, isn’t aggressive or dangerous at all. Opposing teams look happy to play against him. Wtf happened to the early season Lukaku?

Thank goodness we built ourselves up a nice buffer between ourselves and the chasing pack early in the season. Because with Ziyech being literally our only dangerous attacker right now and our team totally unable to put together a competent attacking display we’d be nowhere near favorites for top 4. If we were right there in the thick of it with a few points less than we have I don’t think we’d make it.

Spuds, Arse, and United can put in a performance like we just saw or they can lose/drop points in embarrassing fashion. So while we are shite ourselves, these sides behind us are all woefully inconsistent. We should be safe to finish top 4 considering our remaining fixtures. But if 2 of the 4 in the chasing pack catch fire we could be made to sweat. Arse playing once a week with only the PL to focus on should be a massive advantage.

This may be the best performance by a #9 I’ve seen in memory. Watch Spuds lose to Burnley next now after this 😂

UN-fucking-real.

True. Better he stays there than goes to either Manchester side. Still, makes it all the more difficult for us to finish top 4 with a strong Conte team.

If Conte can convince Kane to stay and Levy allows him to bring in a few of his own signings they’ll be a serious problem. They desperate;y just need an upgrade in midfield and at fullback.

Kane looks back to his absolute best and he is ridiculously good. Passing, creating, the runs he makes. Meanwhile, our £100m striker has 7 touches against Crystal Palace.