Magic Lamps

Welcome to the prem Big Ed

Lol every tottenham lmayer at least 10m inside his own half on average Omg what was that

Thats how you get your first goal Nice and clinical deepest Bus ever undone

Mou with a classic 5-5-0 lol they have some pace in the counter but so do we

At his age one should celebrate them as they come 😄

decent lederner lineup. No cb on the bench is weird tho

how is the ball gonna go to the nea post through allour players coming from that angle tho? if you watch closely there is not really an avenue for the near post ball across the box. far post was the only direction this could have causeddanger.

this indeed is a worry. i hope it is just a smokescreen like so many things he says bc it is obviously incorrct. Bayern had a ton of injuries but played most of last season with alaba and boateng as cb pairing. without that it would probably have been süle and alaba. Paris obviously had Silva and kimpembe mostly, Barcelona played Pique and Langlet, Madrid Ramos and Varane. Only 3men defences can afford some flexibility IMO. Also what does communication have to do with modern football? it is just basic logic. People are better and communicating with each other when they know each other better and players play better together when they are used to each other. Maybe there are other ways to make cb pairing work but surely having them play next to each other week in week out is the most obvious way.

Offside trap was not the planned option, everyone automatically just moved up bc of how the ball is played so it maybe also was a collective mistake which happen when everyone goes ball wathcing. but alonso actually should have stayed with his markee holding the line. bc he didn't Reece tried to cover them both i guess or simply lost concentration himself. A more sophisticated defender than RJ would probably have made the smart choice and played them all offisde, saving the day by doing so but he was brought in this position by Alonso being the only completely misjudging the direction of the ball. On a different note whilst our attacking play is boring AF and we are still not solid at the back, there is some improvement in the ladder in the sense that only the Silva mistake was a goal we conceded without Kepa or Alonso being at least partly at fault. This is a trend that we also saw in the last few matches of last season. If concede less from collective mistakes and more from individual mistakes. Mostly from Kepa and Alonso who i have called out for ages. Vs Liverpool and Brighton we looked defensively extremely solid for most of the match apart from Alonso/Kepa. AC has really stepped up apart from that red card obviously. Zouma has been faultless this season so far (so really sad not to see him last weekend). But yeah the chopping and changing needs to stop. By playing Kante as holder again, Lampard has minimally improved our defending but downgraded our attacking fluidity. IMO 4 things need to happen for us to finally improve in the long run -finding a consistent back 4 -replacing Kante with a ball playing but physical DM -Kepa and Alonso out of the squad, they are making the players around them look worse than they are -get ziyech, chilwell and pulisic fit and gelling in the team I am confident Lampard knows this but he might have a different schedule than we would like

Another runaway title for Liverpool will harm the attractiveness of the league. Wonder whether and when refs and fA turn on them

Even if it is Alonso a boss should never humiliate an employee in public even if they deserve it. That being said I really hope Alonso leaves. But if this story is true it must stay an exception otherwise FL will be a dead man walking lieb Mourinho if he creates a toxic atmosphere and he has been looking grumpy for quite some time now

Our game, bayern, bvb getting thrashed, leicester hammer shitty, w ham thrash wolves. corona footy is crazy.

i thought it was red when the pics were leaked but it not even pink it's like baloney.

Yeah and we lost just one out of 9 league games without Kanté last season. The season before we went on a run of losing one in 13 with Alonso and 6 our of 9 without him. Small samples make stupid opinions

Tbf tammy missed a ton of easy chances like he always does. Pretty sure Werner will start more matches , simply bc if the price tag. On a Different. Note, read a completely different ridiculous ‚analysis‘ from sky that pins our problems to our best defender Rüdiger being frozen out and our Defence was slow with esp Christensen lacking pace. I mean honestly how stupid can journalists be?

LOL you must be kidding. Kovacic does what he does, bring the ball forward, break the press and ease the transition. He also did so yesterday no shame in that. Silva had plenty of time to control the pass. He should have calculated the surface correctly but miscontrolled it

Ddg was never In his life even in the top5. That is just a myth propagated by Manure biased media

He definitely looked better as striker than today on the wing. I hope he starts in the middle vs pttenham with Havertz behind him CHO/Mount on the wings

both apparently not fit but Pulisic is in contention for the next weekend lamps said on friday.

He really is bad. Worse than bad. Just shocking. Completely useless in attack 90% of the time bc he has no pace to get past a player even with a head start, cant cross, cant dribble bc lack of pace just passes the ball backwards every time. cant win a tackle to save his life. he gets targeted by every oppositon even westbrom

You kiddin? everyone hates alonso starting. We dont need to repeat it everytime. Alonso costing us a goal is such a regularity, vs Brighton I wrote i wont repeat it from now on bc it is expected. same as Kepa not saving week shots or Tammy missing easy chances when they play. Do we need to repeat those predictions every time bc otherwise they are no valid criticism? Buying one left back is not enough when you need two. Alonso being good offensively is a myth.

I said so before, this 20/21 season is the last of him being an undisputed starter. He is alright winning back the ball but does not help the transition. I think we need a player like Rodri who can sit deep, defend with his body and still pay good passes out. Can’t rely on Kovacic doing it all.

If he would score like 10 goals per season and maybe ship 5 or 6 (like Gosens e.g.)I would be like fair enough, alright squad player with decent offensive nous. But he scores every blue moon and ships a goal almost every game. Emerson is bang average at best but I can’t remember him being as shit as Alonso has been for quite some time now . Neither are good enough. Both should be gone. Really feel like a broken record having been saying this for ages now. We need another LB as I think Castillo and Maatsen are nothing special either people keep saying against bottom half opposition Alonso is enough but he clearly is not. We won’t get away with him in games even vs shit sides. He simply doesn’t cut it at top level.

LEts better hope we have Chilwell and Zouma back for this

3 goals and countless chances vs the deepest bus ever has to be applauded. 3 individual errors not. It is easy to cry fire Lamps. But we need to get behind the reason for our mental weakness in Defence first.