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whats wrong with our shooting. shit kovacic injured. has been decent so far. i had hoped it would be alonso and what the fuckis ederson doing at the half way line not being booked?

lol Kante running ove rLaporte. only stopped by fould not spotted of course. fast centre back my ass

whenever we break through city's midfield they are completely disjointed. have to make that count.

this is ridicuous from oliver

just the moment we are in front, the decisions go against us. I always be wondered...refs instructed to make games and seasons more exciting... no surely could not be...

i know cant even remember if we have got a pen since the opening week.

willian you fucking prick edit sorry about that but come on just hit it with power from 13 yards out

and that looked like handball

the whole guy is plain hideous.

yeah that is why he is on the pitch. freekicks in that exact range and position are what he is all about. probably the best in the world from that very position only.

that should have been alonso's freekick. he always nails them.

mind this is city without their 2 best players and they are still head and shoulders above our full-strength squad. the amount of quality they have is just ridiculous. best team on the planet you have to fucking admit even if i hate them.

we scored often with hazard as striker still he is not at his most efficient in this position and the rest of the team is not comfortable with playing a false 9 either. also imo in a game where you have only a minority of the game, a false 9 adds no value. the goal was a fluke, let not kid ourselves here, we were absolutely shit and so inferior it is not even funny and we will lose this at least 3-1 if we do not get better and make some tactical changes asap. false 9 belongs on the waste bin of football history.

BRING THE BUS

well that goal was unexpected but wont change anything i fear.

i dont get the false 9. it was conte's downfall and never ever worked. Especially against superior teams a player liek grioud who can collect high balls and keep them is paramount. no idea what sarris is playing at. counter attack vs a team way faster in body and mind than us?

absolute disgrace. cant keep a ball to save our lives. why bother pressing when they cut through us like a hot knife. i know they are better than us but with the midfielders we got we should not get overrun like that. horrible team selection. adn the players are no better panicking all the time when one in a million times they win a tackle. set up to fail and the players executing that perfectly

That team is set up to score 0 goals.

What has fifa to do with it anway? I think we need to abandon fifa and uefa asap and Organize things on a club to club or associazion to association basis. And i think it will happen sooner or later

but every goalscoring wi ger will at some point become an inverted one. Dont think it will be different with pulisic. The way modern football is set up with overlapping fullbacks makes traditional wingers redundant

while you are spot on with point 2 and 3, I do not quite like the comparison to Alonso. Alonso is just a below-average defender who likes to hang around the opposition's box and thus happens to score or assist goals every once in a while. Then he gets his Motm and everyone is talking what a great leftback he is. And that is because he is ok at scoring goals for a defender but moreso because every pundit out there is too lazy to assess a what a left-back actually has to do in a game when most oppositions we play are too shit to actually exploit his torrid tactical game. Bakayoko on the other hand actually gets those MOTM awards for the player he acutally is supposed to be. A combative DM. So as Baka, opposite to Alonso, actually has the necessary skills to be good at his job but has a different problem - he is a confidence player. Remember those 10m passes he put out for a throw in under no pressure or those extremely late tackles? Cant tell me is not capable of doing these things right. He just was too afraid. ACtually he is more like Morata. Both more or less have the physical and techncial qualities for their positions but blow hot and cold because of their mental consitution. And with both being in their mid 20ies i think it is too late to expect a quick fix to that. Football is a business where young men have to be able to withstand a certain kind of pressure. Make a decision in no time and execute it perfectly with millions watching. Few people are cut out for this and it is only natural many guys never really adapt to it. Moreover, I think the problem with both of them also is that even if there was some magic trick to fix their confidence issues forever and Baka and Morata were always on top form, IMO they still would be just about good enough. When we recall Morata's and Bakas best matches against oppositions who actually put on a fight not sth like that game were we waltzed Stoke from minute 1, were they really brilliant? IMO they weren't. Say Morata vs ManU when he scored the winner or Baka vs Atletico away. Thsoe were good performances but if that is the best you can get out of them on top form IMO that is not enough.

ugghh you are right. so if we sign him that has to mean Hazard is gone... well thats not so good then.

I can actually see this happening. Dortmund are dissatisfied with his progress and have enough players in that position. Also he is the biggest star in US soccer which is ou rmain foreign market so I can definitely see this making sense froma n ecnomic point of view even for 70m. I think he is decent enough but IMO not more talented than e.g. Kenedy or Bertrand Traore (both similar playing style and equally strongly left-footed) who we are/were happy to sell. But we need a RW, a left-footed one would be great too and I can still see him becoming a very good player if given the chance.

No data is such a petulant little sissy it hurts just watching. That's probably why people prefer giroud.He is just as average a striker but at least a proper lad.

We have like 6 players with 5 or more goals in all comps now. Really sharing them around.