It was more to do with the players today than the tactics.
Couldnt agree more
It was more to do with the players today than the tactics.
Lucky?
yeah lucky, you know when you get something that you don't deserve through good fortune
Once again the over paid tossers played like a beaten team with so much to play for. Even when they equalised we all knew we would lose.
Why the fudge doesn't Harry tell Bale to stick to the position which has turned him into a fudging world star and not on the fudging right where fudging Lennon should've been?[/QUOTE]
1000% this!
Don't know if it's a case of Redknapp trying to be too clever or Bale thinking he's much better than he actually is. He's not Ronaldo.
The two goals themselves were lucky, but we deserved to be winning in the first 30 minutes.
But we scored, and looked like scoring. Im not blaming 451, but to stick this on the fact we started with 442 is massively clutching at straws
Sorry but was your response to me genuine?
It's clutching at straws to blame the formation? you must have missed the 1st half where we were absolutley dire (you can cling on to the fact that we scored 2 all you want). It was men against boys the 1st half. They dictated play, created chances, literally stopped us from playing.
When you play your rivals away from home and your rivals are 10 POINTS BELOW YOU IN THE LEAGUE, you don't decide to show people how brave you are and play 4-4-2 with Niko Kranjcar as the right midfielder thats supposed to track back and help out a young attacking full back. That's why you rarely see Wenger, Ferguson, Mourinho over the years try and play 4-4-2 away from home when playing their rivals. You simply don't do that.
We weren't dire for the entire first half, we looked the better team for the first 30 minutes and took a deserved lead, although the finishes may have been a little fortunate.
The players are far more to blame for this then the formation is, if it worked for the first thirty minutes why other then the players would it have stopped working?
how did we look the better side ? arsenal dominated possession and created more/better chances in that opening 30 minutes
Sorry but was your response to me genuine?
It's clutching at straws to blame the formation? you must have missed the 1st half where we were absolutley dire (you can cling on to the fact that we scored 2 all you want). It was men against boys the 1st half. They dictated play, created chances, literally stopped us from playing.
When you play your rivals away from home and your rivals are 10 POINTS BELOW YOU IN THE LEAGUE, you don't decide to show people how brave you are and play 4-4-2 with Niko Kranjcar as the right midfielder thats supposed to track back and help out a young attacking full back. That's why you rarely see Wenger, Ferguson, Mourinho over the years try and play 4-4-2 away from home when playing their rivals. You simply don't do that.
no we never, we were out played from the kick off and were lucky to be in front - let alone 2-0 up !
We weren't dire for the entire first half, we looked the better team for the first 30 minutes and took a deserved lead, although the finishes may have been a little fortunate.
The players are far more to blame for this then the formation is, if it worked for the first thirty minutes why other then the players would it have stopped working?
Dominated possession? they were passing it off the side of the pitch and we were intercepting their passes in their own third... What game were you watching?
Arsenal created one chance in that opening half hour, van persie in the area with the ball and he put it wide.
Was not dire the entire 1st half.
Fact
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that's my reaction to your analysis.
omg hmmmm wtf lol hmmmm omg hmmmm lol wtf wtf
that's my reaction to your analysis.
We weren't dire for the entire first half, we looked the better team for the first 30 minutes and took a deserved lead, although the finishes may have been a little fortunate.
The players are far more to blame for this then the formation is, if it worked for the first thirty minutes why other then the players would it have stopped working?