Magic Lamps

So gonna happen. Gazza not scored in ages. We will be under huge scrutiny on set pieces. Milivojevic deliveries to Tomkins, Cahill, Kouyate etc defended by our kamikaze backline will be chaos. Still got to win this somehow. If we manage to win this we will either have a 9point gap on Arsenal or leapfrog Leicester. We will either close the gap to Liverpool or ManCity. The former would make PL less suspenseful so you can bet your ass on the FA corrupting the ref and rigging VAR to an unprecedented extent. It will be an absolute battle vs 14men and VAR. I guess we will have to score 4 goals for one to stick amidst VAR checks. So take those bloody chances. Dont lose the ball in stupid areas. Dont commit stupid fouls. So Barkley and Alonso the two braindeads in chief should be farther away from the pitch than the FA are from their moral compass.

Absolute madness. Big mistake from Lamps having Kante as an unused sub vs Ajax, just should have let him out and Deschamps guessing. If he returns injured again he should consider quitting France nt. It is a 50:50 now if he indeed returns injured we can probably forget about him for this season. If he stays fit we profit because they made him match fit for us.

His resilience will come in handy for the rest of his career. It has already earned him a starting spot given he would hardly been given the chance from the go if RLC and Kante had been fit fornthe starr of the season

I liked that too. The goalie probably would not have saved it even if he had gone the right way. This is critical as at some point a keeper will wait for Jorginho to make his mind up and then jump. Jorginho knows he thus has to strike the ball well enough to give a late jumper no chance. We have seen this before with Hazard and Müller taking pens, waiting for the keeper to pick a side and strike the ball blindly. If the goalie does not switch a side, they strike with power, usually to their left. Jorginho has developed a unique variation of that with this silly hop. Usually you would require a strong standing foot to make a shot but Jorginho still manages to generate some power, hopping into his shot. But what the hop does is buying him more time to look at the keeper while still being able to look down at the ball for a last moment.

I like his awareness, delivery, set pieces, overall skillfulness and the fact that he is left footed. But he is a tad too unathletic for the style we are playing and does not contribute enough defensively. No wonder Azpi had so much attacking join down his side. He is also one of those players who tend to stay too long on the ball although not as bad as with Barkley. Apparently he had a release clause of just €30m in the summer which no club was willing to pay. Bayern even were in talks but declined. That smells a bit fishy.

I would love that. Wenger using his voodoo to sell the Bayern board 4th place trophy as the ultimate goal as stay in charge for 15 years😄

If we had bribed the ref he sure as hell would have let Azpi's winner stand. Also that picture does not proof anything. First, one does not see the ball properly so the timing could be off, second it was checked by VAR, third the lifted heelmof the defender looks over the red line. I guess both teams can be somewhat content with the result and still can advance on own accord

Yup, he has the lukaku/aubameyang disease. The bigger the occasion, the more pressure the more likely he is to miss. This does not make him a bad striker. but the absolute great ones like Agüero, Ronaldo, Eto'o actually have a better conversion rate in big fixtures because they are able to raise the intensity even more. As I said in the beginning. the number of goals will not be a concern for Tammy in the end. But is he the striker to win us big titles?

Yes, that is exactly who you are. I did not say he is not good enough because of today. But he was poor adn yes he cost us. With an own goal that showcased his poor coordination as well as a plethora of missed chances.

care to give me videos of the headers being contested then. he had massive height advantage about all ajax players, when he jumps for a ball that those cant reach and they do not engage him, it is a free header. You can not possibly deny that he is absolutely wank at heading. For a tall striker being shit at heading like Peter Crouch can be your undoing. When you are this lanky your advantage in reach will be somewhat neutralized by taking longer to sort your feet out (unless you are a rare talent like Ibra). Today was an example of this. When you then also suck at heading you basically have no height advantage. Today Tammy's lack of coordination and heading ability cost us.

all our attackers were poor today, including Pulisic. No wonder our goals were scored by 2 defenders and 2 pens by Jorginho

nope he missed a series of free headers. and he is not PL top scorer. But given the chances he had he should be. Only becasue DD made a meal out of that BArca semi which obviously was way mroe grave does not make Tammy good enough.

Conte is not a clever politician in his communication with club hierachies. it is the third club he stirs up a conflict in

So so clumsy. He had 4 uncontested chances with his head, fucked up 2 one on ones and scuffed 2 more shots on the turn, one of which luckily turned to an assist. Any guy with a normal coordination would have scored a hattrick tonight. How can you be a professional footballer being this shit at headers?

There surely are tons of players who are down to this, the question is if there are good enough. But that is what you have scouts for. Javi Martinez has essentially been playing that role in Bayern for years. Mikel did it for us for ages. Casemiro s also not always playing when he is not needed.

not necessarily, in CL it is not settled on GD but on a "mini table" of progressing teams. It would depend on how lille does vs ajax as we have the one on one vs ajax. Anyway, 4 points and we progress. But i also rather want to go either 1st or 3rd. Which means we have to win at the Mestalla to be sure.

Still not sure if he is good enough. His positioning on 2 of the goals conceded today was questionable to say the least. Onana on the other hand made like 10 saves. I checked and Onana only has contract till 2022 so a cheeky bid next summer might land him....

After yet another absolute shit show, his Chelsea career should be over. Sell without replacement, I don't care. He cost us the game vs Utd and possibly today . Azpi for some reason offers more offensively on the left than on the right anyway.

On the upside lile now have noting to play for and are out of Europe altogether. 4 points out of 2 games will make us progress

I think it was brave. Numbers back were hardly our problem defending vs 9 men. I would have taken tammy and kovacic outs and brought on Giroud and Bats if we had had 2 subs left. If the chacnes Tammy had today fell to someone else we would have won by a landslide today.

you kidding? we created tons and tons and tons of chances but abraham and Bats put them safely in Onana's hands or wide. we were wasteful as always and had the worse goalie but we could have easily won this 10-4. Ajax scored with every shot whilst we need 20 chances per goal.

2 goals disallowed, 2 own goals, 2 red cards, 2 penalties

disappointed in the end but probably fair overall. "This loss is on Lampard"

absolutely hands down respect to ajax for hanging on like this with 9 man. what a keeper. and we are stuck with fucking kepa

I repeat my point about Tammy. He is an absolute poor header. he is uncontested every time he goes ariborne and yet only passes it back to onana