If Lennon, Gallas and Bale (actually, not Gallas it's probably an advantage) are injured for some time, will those of you who considered it arrogant to save important players for important matches reconsider?
So, positives from this season:
- Vertonghen looks the dogs gonads.
- We did well to get fifth and EL QF in AVB's first season in charge
- Bale really showed his class, hopefully he'll return from his injury even better next season
- Lloris is a great goalkeeper
- Dembele has been a good player
- Sandro was brilliant until his injury
- Siggy finally scored
- We beat Manure at Old Trafford
...anything else?
Serious question. What team would you have put out?
Pro-tip: if you want happy discussions don't go on the board of a football team that has just been humiliated by smaller opposition and had it's two best players injured thus ending the season.
Adebayor really needs to go and do something else now. Something nothing to do with competitive sport.
Been saying repeated we should rest players for the EL
Need to hope we can somehow get a point on Sunday and then in the 2.5 weeks between now and the City game get Lennon fit
If we are lucky Bale might "only" have only stretched the ligaments on the outside of the ankle.
To be honest I've never read such a crock of brick in my life. What was AVB supposed to do? He picked the team 9/10 would have picked before the match and I agreed with every sub he made. It wasn't clueless he moved Verts to the left and them bale to counter their right winger who was fudging killing us. In the end it wasn't pretty but it got us a point when doing nothing and letting Ekotto drown would have been stupid. We have a massive game on Sunday and daws and others can't play every game. That team was good enough 9/10 but we came up against a slick organised team who didn't give us a sniff. We also had about 4 or 5 have individual nightmares at the same time and 3 injuries. What the fudge has that to do with AVB? fudge all you're talking absolute gonads and I'm more tinkled off with our pathetic brainless fans that give fudge all support than I am any player tonightFrankly we didnt even deserve the draw.
AVB got it all wrong again. Bad tactics, poor selections, madness subs, lack of game plan.
Players look confused and weak. Second best to everything. No effort at all.
All the subs had been used
Now Bale and Lennon our injured our seasons more or less over. Let the capitulation begin!!
Adebayor really needs to go and do something else now. Something nothing to do with competitive sport.
I'd play Lloris and either Dawson or Caulker; I wouldn't have started with Holtby, then I wouldn't have taken him off just as he was coming into the game - Dempsey was brick and we lost all of Holtby's energy and handed them the midfield.
They then proceeded to dismantle us for 25 minutes.