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[Milan 17,835]

Also nice to see Kepa making big saves after a long time, just a shame they did not contribute to some points.

[Jase 43,479]

I know we are a team in transition and there's gonna be ups and downs this season but this novelty of playing the youth, praising a fighting performance from losing position etc is gonna lose its value if we continue to defend like clowns in set piece and open play situations. 16 goals conceded in 8 games is abysmal. Continue at that rate and we'll get nowhere.

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

I know we are a team in transition and there's gonna be ups and downs this season but this novelty of playing the youth, praising a fighting performance from losing position etc is gonna lose its value if we continue to defend like clowns in set piece and open play situations. 16 goals conceded in 8 games is abysmal. Continue at that rate and we'll get nowhere.

Welcome to the dark side mate.


We've been waiting for you [emoji481]

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[Vesper 27,324]

Why the fuck did we drop £58m on Pulisic if we are not even going to use him when Willian is clearly a disasterclass almost every time he steps foot on the pitch?

IF he cannot beat out that walking turd with an afro then why the fuck did we drop almost 60 million quid on him, ESPECIALLY with the bans coming? Marketing??? That is what I said when we signed him, but ffs, it was half said in jest. Thank fuck CHO is soon back.

[Styl1994 188]

Next summer their has to be quality signings 

we need real competition for Abraham up front, Batshuayi and Grouid aren’t real competition. 

New Full backs 

quality winger as Willian and Pedro should be last choice options at this stage in their careers 

maybe a center back if we keep leaking goals.

[Vesper 27,324]

3 minutes ago, Supermonkey92 said:

Welcome to the dark side mate.


We've been waiting for you

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[MoroccanBlue 5,199]

Keep hearing this 'wait till our injured players are back' as if this is going to fix our defensive issues at set pieces. 

This can only be fixed on a coaching aspect. 

[Vesper 27,324]

18 minutes ago, Alabama said:

Tomori our best defender after Rudiger... 

10000% agreed

[LAM09 6,550]

I know we are a team in transition and there's gonna be ups and downs this season but this novelty of playing the youth, praising a fighting performance from losing position etc is gonna lose its value if we continue to defend like clowns in set piece and open play situations. 16 goals conceded in 8 games is abysmal. Continue at that rate and we'll get nowhere.

Most goals conceded by us since the 70's. Things won't change as long as Zonal marking is around.

[Alabama 1,992]

Gutted we lost.... But c'mon the spine of our team in years to come will be so full of quality... Mount what a player that guy will be.... Been playing on wings of recent when I though central midfield is his best position...

Tomori...

Mount... 

James... 

Callum...

Abraham... Will xplode in yrs to come... 

 

J

[robsblubot 3,225]

21 hours ago, Alabama said:

Tomori our best defender after Rudiger... 

Think Andreas is still ahead of tomori, who does look like an amazing prospect - must be said.

tomori is very fast, strong, and actually good on the ball (twice as good as zouma). What he is lacking right now is discipline and, well experience. For example, he puts pool player onside when kepa saves azpi bounce. He’s just very focused on the player he’s watching and misses the line push. Experience.

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Pulisic should have came on for Mount. I am struggling to understand why is he on the fringes. Mason was dead at the end, he could barely walk. Frank again with poor choice of subs. Batsuhayi is clearly not a player for this level of football and also you don't take off a striker who is in form. Tammy didn't score today but he got into very good positions and you never know with 20 mins left.

 

[MoroccanBlue 5,199]

1 minute ago, Alabama said:

Gutted we lost.... But c'mon the spine of our team in years to come will be so full of quality... Mount what a player that guy will be.... Been playing on wings of recent when I though central midfield is his best position...

Tomori...

Mount... 

James... 

Callum...

Abraham... Will xplode in yrs to come... 

 

J

Well that may come good in the future, we need to worry about the present. And at the present, our defending is going to cost us anything we might be able to attain this season. 

[Jase 43,479]

2 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

14 minutes ago, Jason said:

I know we are a team in transition and there's gonna be ups and downs this season but this novelty of playing the youth, praising a fighting performance from losing position etc is gonna lose its value if we continue to defend like clowns in set piece and open play situations. 16 goals conceded in 8 games is abysmal. Continue at that rate and we'll get nowhere.

Most goals conceded by us since the 70's. Things won't change as long as Zonal marking is around.

Our zonal marking defending is just as bad as our open play defending. 

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Bosnian Blue said:

Pulisic should have came on for Mount. I am struggling to understand why is he on the fringes. Mason was dead at the end, he could barely walk. Frank again with poor choice of subs. Batsuhayi is clearly not a player for this level of football and also you don't take off a striker who is in form. Tammy didn't score today but he got into very good positions and you never know with 20 mins left.

Abraham was limping when he came off. Might have been why Batshuayi came on. Otherwise, Pedro and Pulisic were warming up. 

[Johnnyeye 7,414]

1 minute ago, Bosnian Blue said:

Pulisic should have came on for Mount. I am struggling to understand why is he on the fringes. Mason was dead at the end, he could barely walk. Frank again with poor choice of subs. Batsuhayi is clearly not a player for this level of football and also you don't take off a striker who is in form. Tammy didn't score today but he got into very good positions and you never know with 20 mins left.

 

completely agree, you might argue that those 2 injuries fucked us, but still no excuse from Lampard to not play Pulisic, especially when we needed a spark from somewhere.

[LAM09 6,550]

Our zonal marking defending is just as bad as our open play defending. 

One is easily addressed

[robsblubot 3,225]

4 minutes ago, Jason said:

Our zonal marking defending is just as bad as our open play defending. 

As good a game Jorginho and kova had, the first goal was on them. Fabinho? Just runs past both with easy and then gets fouled by Andreas as a last resort. 

Like frank said after the game, details win games.