Magic Lamps

Sounds legit. A washed-up semi-pro at Reading with no connections to Havertz, Leverkusen or even German football would be the first you call when you have some undisclosed transfer news.

That is a good point and I think it was visible throughout the season that we lacked a bit of a defensive concept. I am sure Lamps is aware of that and will aim to develop himself and the team in that direction but I the players independent of their footballing and physical abilities have to be capable of picking those ideas up. I bet no one said Azpilicueta and Mount to stay away from their markees for the villa goal or AC and Rüdiger to miss balls. Also during the season esp Rüdiger and Zouma have repeated Positional mistakes over and over. At some point you wonder if those players are capable of executing the ideas of the coach. Esp Rüdiger and Zouma are two players who rely heavily on their instincts and athleticism. AC is more methodical but has mental issues and is not a good athlete. Tomori is probably the best prospect very methodical and very fast. His drawback is that he still has concentration problems and he is a bit too small. Leicester I think has a really good defensive. Esp Soyuncu and Evans are tactically very disciplined and don’t make many mistakes. Sheffield and Wolves probably have worse defenders individually but they too are tactically more disciplined than ours and work better as a team. Esp Azpilicueta our captain always defends on his own. Teams don’t really exploit it too much bc Azpilicueta usually wins those tackles. Usually the right sided cb is in line with the rb in case the rb gets beaten. AC however yesterday and Rüdiger in other games often is still in the center covering the striker which leaves space when Azpi gets beaten or there is a loose ball. On the left we usually do it better cos we expect Alonso to get beaten so the left sided bc aligns with Alonso to cover the run past him. Consequently there will be a hole in the middle. For this a midfielder has to step in bc position to cover the space there and another to cover the cut back. Then the striker has to track back to cover late runs of opposition midfielders or cbs. This basic movement pattern is learned very early in football academies in Germany. Yet we have failed to replicate it this season on a reoccurring basis. If some players have not learned by now I wonder if they will ever learn

He is a weapon when healthy. He already would be a world class player if not for his constant injuries. One has to say that he usually comes back fit as the butchers dog from his lay offs. Some players learn quicker than others so he will still have a good career, like Robben who got so accusomted to frequent injuries that he always hit the gorund running when coming back so it never really halted his progress.

Not even sure what is better here for us. If Liverpool win, the title is clinched so maybe City will be a bit lost for motivation. But I guess City derive their motivtion from their joy of play anyway as all guardiola teams do. At least watching Liverpool effectively calms my heartrate which is still raging from our game lol

It is obvious that most of our players were super rusty and it was a big advantage for Vila that they had a game already. Only Mount and Kante looked somewhat fresh. But those misplays from AC and Rüdi were amateurish.

damn that was painful to watch. we got really lucky today. at least we gave Villa some of their own medicine with all that time wasting and breaking their flow unfairly. still some absolutely shocking individual performances.. AC, Christensen, Willian, James, Alonso were absolutely torrid

GET IN

its obviously gonna happen

OMG. i saw that goin in. wtf did Christensen there

there will be like 10mins added on for sure. so we better not waste time like they do. just score another

Tammy's pace to hit them on the counter. Sensible option to have from the bench. But we all know they will gonna score so we need a third

as soon as we go in front we appear to stop playing. it so weird. the moment for your next goal is always right after your last cos the opponent is still rattled.

The communication between kepa and his CBs is so off hehad to wave them off for the long ball 4 times till they moved

all Villa players were offisde for the freekcik btw, still no whistle

We cant defend set pieces to save our lives FFS

Take willian off FFS

Willian you idiot

The ref going at his whistlign game again

two weird goals but the difference once again is Pulisic. He is our best attacking player.

Say what you want but Pulisic always. Creates some kind of danger. now dont fuck up again defensively

Pulisic just as I said, should have started. great cross tho. first out of hundred

Willian is also useless, take him off.

Lose this, lose City (where we dont really have a chance) and even 5th place will look a distant dream.

Giroud tbf is absolutely useless when he is this rusty, he always needs a run of games.

we are so ponderous they have ages to position themselves, we should circulate the ball way quicker and shoot from distance, their goalie is shaky. there he comes, 54 mins too late