Magic Lamps

Refs corrupted. Pope still Catholic

Well whatevs no idea what luiz is doibg here but once sich a cross comes in it is difficult to stop a player Llorentes size

What a trainwreck aurier is. Thank god we did not sign him

Well we fucked up our counters but completely outplayed them Clear pen obviously, refs still corrupted. How brilliant has Azpi beem even offensviely hownhe is bombing up and doen his flank. Removing that Willialonso poison from the team has made us play great football in an instant

Errrrr clear pen?

Best performance since september

Exactly..i hope Sarri notes this too

Well who would have thought we were better with a proper striker and hazard where he belongs? EVERYONE literally every fucking one

actually its hazard-giroud-pedro and emerson....wow...has sarri finally learnt?

If it is false 9, i aint watching. How much more proof does Sarri need that this does not work. The worst about it is, he is dubbed an attacking coach but the only reason he uses that is for Pedro and Willian to protect the flanks better than Hazard so this is a defensive tactic that we sacrifice any attacking penetration for.

Shit if true. Psg got him on a bargain at 35m. Should have stayed in the race.

Damn Amateurs. That's a 0-0 and false 9 t rw then.

About fucking time. Is he registered for spurs?

Robertson is defo better than Alonso but TAA is not better than Azpi not even offensively IMO, Azpi gets way too much stick he is usually pretty tidy in offense and a decent crosser. VVD is better than our CBS but David and Rüdiger are better than whoever their 2nd CB is rn. I would say Pedro is better than Shaqiri and maybe slightly worse than Mane but not much. Willian is shit but also not too much worse than Shaqiri who is more of an impact sub used in midfield anyway. Firmino is their main striker and clearly better than what we have but i acknowledged that already. So i remain with my point that we are only slightly worse than them overall, if you take the star players out.

and away goal rule? nothing written about that in the article

lol. so what now? but i think it is a mix from both. There is extra time but there is no away goal rule, at least if it is if wikipedia is right. also i remember when we beat liverpool having drawn 1-1 at anfield and iva scored a 1-0 winner at the bridge in extra time, so that would vindicate that.

I agree, I also think he would have rotated him in the more offensive 2 of the mid 3 where KDB/Gündogan/Silva usually play. Pep wants 2 absolute class players for every position and rightly so. You need that in a 60 games seasona nd even that might no be sufficient given how they miss agüero or kdb when ever they are injured. That being said what is most striking about Pep is that he is able to use 2 or 3 very different formatons and did so from the very beginning unless the same 4-3-3 over and over again like Sarri does. only switch to 4-2-3-1 when we have perfected 4-3-3 my ass. could have started the other way round at last

If that were us the meltdown over KPB and Paulinho here would have been endless. Those are the signings no one wants here and rightly so. KPB is a decent player but absolutely no fit for Barca whilst Paulinho turned out good but was no way low risk, he was expensive, flopped at the only to pclub he played before, was well over his peak from the look of it and came froma non-competitive league. To splash out 100m for a world class player is waht we should learn from Barcelona's transfe rpolicy.

Well I have to strongly disagree with him. I would take a player like Salah who is not remotedly as technically smooth as Hazard over him. Salah might have the occasional shit game and also has some gross technical errors in his game from time to time like a bad control or a lose first touch but scores almost every game and as a consequence Liveprool are title favourites whilst we are in for a struggle for 4th. That is more or less how the main differnece between a title winning squad and an ok CL place candidate - how prolific your top scorer or star player is. Add the 7 goals Salah has over Hazard and we have maybe 10 points more. Apart from those goals there is not much of a difference between our and Liverpools squad IMO. They have a better manager and slightly better players in defence and a better striker but that's it. But that is not really the problem I have with those comments. Often when a person commemorates the status quo it is to hide the fact that they are afraid to challenge themselves and push themselves to improve upon the current position because they are afraid to fail and have no excuse like "I never wanted it anyway" left.

I like how Spurs fans are pissing their pants in fear of Higauin kicking them out and banging on about how new players should not be egligible for return legs😂

Me 2. I think he was our best coach of the Abramovich era. We were really close 2nd that season and would have easiöy won if Lamps and Drogs had not been injured for half of it, which the club failed to make amends for in any transfer window instead replacing Deco and Ballack with Ramires and Zhirkov in midfield. Add to that the torres disaster when drogba was already fit again.

Batceloma signing KP Boateng as striker back up - they also love their weird transfers

I took a bit of time to watch a few vids of him. He seems technically polished and reasonably quick but have not really seen him defending and passing is not perfect either. Creates chances with his dribbling and runs, has a decent shot and good set pieces, where his assists come from. Would surprise me if we really were in for him but would be a good player for a lower-half EPL club.

Perfect. Will fetch a decent price for him then.

Sven Mislintat is leaving Arsenal. Should be all over them, a scout like him will be in demand everywhere and I reckon our chances will be good, he can stay in London and our scputibg facilities are excellent, lets hope the board does its job