Magic Lamps

Luiz is harsh cos he had some legendary games and wondergoals at his first time around and his first season under Conte was immense too.

Lolol that looked like he did it on purpose

NOw Alonso's bad positioning has almost cost us a goal. what has to happen that he gets dropped?

Barkleys injured. I would bring on RLC and Emerson.

Kovacic, Giroud, Alonso have been shit for sure tho. Azpi's offensive impact very decent this time tho

Two sitters? Those were difficult chances. And we know for our is a shot finisher but that is not why he is in the team. Alonso right now is shit at everything

Look at his position just before the end of the half. Instead of creating space with a run down the left Alonso takes up Hazards position driving even more Fulham player back

Please just sack Alonso already

Does not surprise me. Always loved Giroud as a players always plays for the team. The Goals he scores now are just a nice bonus. Hazard surely will eat his words i remember him stating that he was not happy about signing a siege tower striker initially.

Depends i guess. Lots of places here are very chill. Also Austrians are really relaxed and level headed very different to Swiss and Germans. But in the Germany you earn decent money, life costs are low and have a pampered welfare state too. Surely I would trade that for the sun of Andalusia or Algarve if i needn't the work here. How about Slovenia btw? From the outside it sounds perfect. Sea, Alps, free educazion, decent healthcare, people speak English or even German, not overpopulated, not poor but also not expensive.

tbf that ricocheted into his feet from 2 yards with some power and a wicked spin. But ofc a natural striker would instinctively set himself up to give him a better chance of scoring. I remember Lampard scoring that exact same chance at least 3 times from the top of my head, including a winner at Everton. Morata really should not have become a striker, just not cut out for it. If he had received the correct education he could have become a good winger with his pace and off-the ball movement which tbf is not too bad.

Having been in Munich a lot for work I can say that the charm wears off after some time. It is super expensive compared to the rest of Germany and locals are often rather conceited. Shops close at 8 pm and the with everything being so polished, voiceless minorities who disturb the illusion of idylle like Beggars, Sinti&Roma, drug-addicts are pushed around by the police instead of being properly supported. But if you are rich and narrow-minded it is probably one of the best places on earth. So perfect for most Bayern players. The rest of Bavaria on the other hand is really beautiful landscape-wise and the farer away from the tourist hotspots the more grounded and friendly people are. Would not want to live in the middle of nowhere there either tho. Best places to live are probably somewhere in the middle like Augsburg, Würzburg or Nürnberg.

Köln resigned Modeste for free. Immediately able to feature. Could have been a more than solid stopgap until a good striker comed available

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Why? Same food, same weather, same kind of hillbillies with questionable (part)human ancestery speaking an incomprehensible dialect

Which de jong do you mean?

I wonder what tgere is no thread for Luke Jovic, 20y.o. Bundesliga top scorer only half a year on his contract..even if he flops here his resale value would be immense

Wut? The group is as good as won. We only have to beat fucking Vidi to be 100% sure of 1st place. Should not risk Hazard, azpi, kante or jorginho at all in the el now

I don't think that is accurate. Azpi does overlap and whoever played right winger has profitted from that more than they have last season with Moses overlapping. Pedro and Willian both have been very decent so far in interplay with Azpi. I remember him sprinting to the touchline at least 3 times vs Crystal Palace and he is always putting in quality crosses. He might not be the most adventurous dribbler but he is fast, direct and most importantly always tracking back, never out of position. It is his primary duty to defend and he does that very well. It is not that in Sarris system the fullbacks are overly offensively influential. Look at Hysaj at Napli hardly more offensive output. Rather have it that way than Alonso constantly roaming around the edge of the box. This squad has many problems but Azpi is not one of them.

I wonder how you came from this to Jorhinho ‘surplus to goods’ in an Ancelotti system like you state in every other comment. Surely Carlo would not have minded a player of this quality he also used Ballack and Deco at a similar role here before

Like it or not but he won us a game we did not get play well in. That is what strikers are meant to do. Dont care if he missed that 1 on 1. Look at Lewandowskinor Aubameyang they also miss most of their 1 on 1s. It is about a decision and when the keeper makes the same move its bad luck. But other than last season Morata where he would fall over or roll the ball to the keeper in all his missed ones this season made a decent confident decision and was kept out by some great goalkeeping. No shame in that IMO. Should keep on the good work and we will have a good price for him

Obviously a perfectly legit goal disallowed. Anyway, morata is actually playing really good .even apart from his usual opener very good link up play

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interesting, given their time at the top hardly overleapt and Iniesta had Busquets behind him who was not too shabby at what he did either. Anyway I think the problem with Kante is that while obviously not as good as a box-to-box player than as a DM IMO the tacitcs are the problem. Defensively he is not making as much of an impact also becasue of his positioning. When we get behind the ball it is still Jorginho central which imo is a waste bc Kante belongs in the middle when we dont have the ball. In the middle is where the most tackles and interceptions happen and that is where he is good at. 1on1 situation or doubling down on stationary player, stealing the ball. On the wing play is usually more vertical and thus he is not often enough near the ball to make a tackle. Obviously any of our other in-form mids would be better as a box-to-box player but you dont sit the best dm in the world on the bench or even sell him. We made this mistake before, selling a player just because he does not fit in the coach's system. But players often last longer than coaches. Did not sell Drogs and Lamps under Scolari or AVB either and they still had enough in them to win us some titles.

Makes you wonder what it is... his attitute from the looks of it stinks. Forced his move to Barcelona from Dortmund by going on strike, injured himself in his first few games at Barca took months to get back to full fitness after his injury had healed and now obviously again had a drop in attitude despite a good start to the season. He has always blown hot and cold performance-wise and I wish we would get in someone more reliable when that applies for almost every winger we have had for ages.