Rob
Peter Taylor
You'll need to explain that one to me, unless you spelt Eriksen wrong.
Yep
You'll need to explain that one to me, unless you spelt Eriksen wrong.
The team can't be complete crap when it sits in fifth place in the league. Neither is management too bad when you are fifth in the league with the sixth biggest budget.The (ugly) truth is that we are complete crap ...
Does anyone actually think we SHOULD be fifth though or, like me, are they surprised to still be there?
Above all, I blame the obsession with qualifying for the Champions League. It's led to this constant sense of single-minded desperation and, since our successful qualification four seasons ago, a self-fulfilling fear and melodramatic anger at failure.
I've forgotten what it feels like just to enjoy supporting and watching your team.
**** the Champions League - **** it in the ass.
**** the Champions League - **** it in the ass.
I think the biggest problem isn't just ours.
When I look at Italian football from the 90's and what happened there from the turn of the century, teams basically were too scared to lose. Parked the bus which IMO killed Italian football.
I think the same is happening here, when a team like Chelsea and Liverpool both use the counter attack method of hoping the other team will make a mistake whilst holding two banks of players behind the ball when they don't have it, Benfica showed the same last night.
Why on earth are we thinking we are Arsenal or Barcelona I do not know. We do not have the players to play this current way.. (we have one in Eriksen) we certainly do not have the correct centre backs, what we do have is counter attack players though. We should switch immediately. Valencia played counter attack, Soldado was in his element with this type of play, what do we do, play a containment method keeping the opposition from having the football.
The reason many are in love with our champions league run is because this is how we played on the most part, difficult to beat, but electrifying moments of counter football that reverberated around world football as the team to watch, we were the team that had set about playing attacking with no fear instead of 20 players moving right to left and left to right in a slow no lose mentality that the champions league was becoming. That year we gave the champions league a spark.
This is what Liverpool and Chelsea are doing, they are being clever, have enough of those counter attack moments and it will mask over the dour ****e that way of playing gives. Lets play to our strengths once more.
Harry played a counter attack team, the problem is he had Bale/Lennon/Modric/VDV, 4 players who either were quick physically (Bale/Lennon) or quick mentally (Modric/VDV) at moving the ball.
Today we only really have Eriksen (still learning) & Lennon, a left side FB issue and a bunch of midfielders who don't recycle the ball fast enough and a team tactic that doesn't have us running off the ball.
You want a really bad indictment of TS as a coach, go watch yesterday's game again, look at when the back 4, Sandro have the ball and are looking up for a pass, and no one in front of them (midfield) is making runs, making space to collect the pass, so result -> pass back/sideways or long ball forward to Ade/Lennon ..