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**Official OMT** - Who's going to the season opener? (Not an OMT)

Man of the match


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@milo Ndombele for breaching the defence with a lovely finish on his debut. Must be pressure playing in a forign country infront of a massive crowd for your first game!! Kane also for 2 clinical finishes in a messy game.

Was just lamenting Lamela when he changed the game. He's mercurial. Woeful then brilliant.

The best thing was everyone contributed. It was a team struggel to blow away the cobwebs, and fight back. Eriksen was part of that. Lets hope he can be for the rest of the season.
 
Hopefully Poch will have learned his lesson and won’t start this team in this formation again.. ever !

To be fair to him, he didnt really have any other players available if you believe that Eriksen wasn't fit enough to start
 
He is too stubborn. He is trying to please his available midfielders which is weird.

No it’s about playing Son through the middle, Lucas is his back up and a similar profile, keeping the same pattern of play, we changed to 4231 after 20 minutes today, we stared with the midfield like this.

Lamela

Sissoko N’Dombele

Winks

after 20 minutes we went too

Lucas

Lamela. Kane. Sissoko

Explain why any sane person would set us up like that? Why put Kane as a #10 put the one footed Lamela on the left when his game is to naturally drift into the middle making him useless and keep Lucas up top when all common sense and logic tells you without making a sub to go

Kane

Lucas. Lamela. Sissoko

At half time bring Eriksen on put Lamela out to the right where he is comfortable cutting inside and Eriksen as #10.

It’s not a coincidence that Son’s best performances comes when Kane is injured as he is playing through the middle, but he was playing through the middle with the rest of the team playing in their natural positions, but going to the diamond it’s pushing Kane, Eriksen and Alli our of their natural roles and having a huge effect on the team, this was the problem last season it was nothing to do with players being tired from the World Cup, that excuse and getting lucky to get to Madrid papered over all the cracks.
 
No it’s about playing Son through the middle, Lucas is his back up and a similar profile, keeping the same pattern of play, we changed to 4231 after 20 minutes today, we stared with the midfield like this.

Lamela

Sissoko N’Dombele

Winks

after 20 minutes we went too

Lucas

Lamela. Kane. Sissoko

Explain why any sane person would set us up like that? Why put Kane as a #10 put the one footed Lamela on the left when his game is to naturally drift into the middle making him useless and keep Lucas up top when all common sense and logic tells you without making a sub to go

Kane

Lucas. Lamela. Sissoko

At half time bring Eriksen on put Lamela out to the right where he is comfortable cutting inside and Eriksen as #10.

It’s not a coincidence that Son’s best performances comes when Kane is injured as he is playing through the middle, but he was playing through the middle with the rest of the team playing in their natural positions, but going to the diamond it’s pushing Kane, Eriksen and Alli our of their natural roles and having a huge effect on the team, this was the problem last season it was nothing to do with players being tired from the World Cup, that excuse and getting lucky to get to Madrid papered over all the cracks.

Exactly it's mental. Why have the best striker in the world playing behind someone else.

If anything start in the formation that works and change it when winning and high on confidence. Needs to have a proper look at himself.
 
Exactly it's mental. Why have the best striker in the world playing behind someone else.

If anything start in the formation that works and change it when winning and high on confidence. Needs to have a proper look at himself.

We did it plenty last season and it was effective on occasions. We don't play a static formation, our players change positions plenty. I do not see the harm, if it makes defenders think about who they are up against and keeps them on their toes.
 
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