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I liked Erik Lamela before it was cool

LCLC said:
Calm down mate. Lamela had a good first half. He wasn't running the game and only managed to beat his fullback once. It was his most complete performance of the season but I cAn think of several games last year when townsend was our best attaxking threat and the game went through him. Everytjimg went through kane and erisken on sat and it was nice to see Lamela keep it simple and assist the team.

Your right to say people shouldn't jump all over him after what was a good performance, but it's not absurd to say townsend has been deserving of a start over him
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Lennon would have deserved a start over both. My comments at the team selection before game, I was clear, could not understand why Lamela was picked, I would have put Lennon/Townsend/Dembele/anyone in front of Lamela at that point.

However, Poch said it, get it right, your brilliant, get it wrong, your ****. He got it right against Burnley.
 
LCLC said:
We were at home and had just regained the lead after conceding a goal not long before to a lowly club. The defenders all went and had a discussion amongst themselves and two players went and had a chat to poch. I don't think there is too much thete to read into. The game did not have the same intensity and sometimes you want to stay in the zone and focused once we we got back on track
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I am not convinced. Lamela had just scored his first ever league goal for us. And it was a wonder goal just like the "rabona" goal against Asteras. And just like the "rabona" goal, most players were too slow to celebrate with him. Eriksen just threw his arm in the air and walked off, didn't even bother to celebrate with Lamela. It could be due to being annoyed with us conceding the goal earlier. But then, only a few like Walker and Fazio went to congratulate Lamela at the end of the match as well. It is disappointing if the other players are not fully supporting Lamela
 
Spurs7891 said:
I am not convinced. Lamela had just scored his first ever league goal for us. And it was a wonder goal just like the "rabona" goal against Asteras. And just like the "rabona" goal, most players were too slow to celebrate with him. Eriksen just threw his arm in the air and walked off, didn't even bother to celebrate with Lamela. It could be due to being annoyed with us conceding the goal earlier. But then, only a few like Walker and Fazio went to congratulate Lamela at the end of the match as well. It is disappointing if the other players are not fully supporting Lamela
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not all of us on here celebrated that goal the same way too :)

maybe the players were just knackered, i thought it was a hard fought victory, glad lamela got it in the end as we couldn't find the net.
 
Genuine question, how many goals and assists has townsend got in the same amount of games as lamela? Townsend. Old to dream of scoring the goals lamela has, he just shoots straight in the middle of the goal and hopes it goes into the corner, which sometimes it does, but off ten high and wide. I like forward to townsend being sold in January so we don't have to discuss it anymore.

As for lamela, he's clearly class, but can he do it do sister ly in the premiere lewgue? Will he be given the chance? Hope so, jt who knows...
 
Terrible grammar/spelling Grimsby, assume you've had a pint or two tonight?

Townsend is the most frustrating player I've ever watched. Wasteful.
 
If you look at Europe's top teams the front 3 or 4, depending on preferred formations, are all dynamic and unpredictable, albeit playing in a set system. Poch is clearly trying to emulate this with his forward 4. Kane is the tireless and selfless spoil for 3 talented and skilful forward players who, on their day, can and have won us games. It makes total sense and Poch's way of playing requires these 4 players to be a unit who, not only complement each other, but also individually and collectively with their movement, dynamism and unpredictability keep the opposition guessing. With Poch in charge, one dimensional wide players and more static forward players will not be picked if other more dynamic players such as Lamella are available and in some kind of form.

For what it is worth Lamella is totally apt for this and Poch clearly wants to persevere so as to install him as his right sided player of the 3 behind the front man. Curtains for Lennon and Townsend me thinks....


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Spurs7891 said:
I am not convinced. Lamela had just scored his first ever league goal for us. And it was a wonder goal just like the "rabona" goal against Asteras. And just like the "rabona" goal, most players were too slow to celebrate with him. Eriksen just threw his arm in the air and walked off, didn't even bother to celebrate with Lamela. It could be due to being annoyed with us conceding the goal earlier. But then, only a few like Walker and Fazio went to congratulate Lamela at the end of the match as well. It is disappointing if the other players are not fully supporting Lamela
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Have you seen the way the guy acts when he's not playing? In post-match interviews, sponsored events, behind the scenes Spurs videos and the like, I mean.

The guy could be the best poker player in the world, if he chose to go down that route. Looks down instead of straight at the person he's talking to half the time, is quiet, generally emotionless and largely personifies the word 'reserved'. I don't think he doesn't care, or is somehow distant from Lamela or his team-mates: I just think it isn't in his nature to show excessive emotion for, well, almost anything. Even his goal celebrations are a bit...meh. Still a killer footballer and a team player, though. So yeah, I wouldn't read too much into Eriksen's reaction to Lamela's wonder-goal. Mason, Bentaleb and a few other players ran to Lamela straight after he'd scored, and indeed I think Mason jumped onto his back in delight. The defenders were too far away to come piling on to him, and Lloris is the gk so not much team celebrating expected from him, I would hope. Overall, I think the team doesn't really have anything against the lad: I can't see why they would.
 
I would like to think that most of the team also felt that we would go on and dominate the game and score at least one more, so in the bigger picture that goal wasn't as big a deal as Soldados against Everton where we had been behind and battling hard .
Also not sure that anyone in the team were that conscious or worried that it was Lamella first league goal.


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DubaiSpur said:
Have you seen the way the guy acts when he's not playing? In post-match interviews, sponsored events, behind the scenes Spurs videos and the like, I mean.

The guy could be the best poker player in the world, if he chose to go down that route. Looks down instead of straight at the person he's talking to half the time, is quiet, generally emotionless and largely personifies the word 'reserved'. I don't think he doesn't care, or is somehow distant from Lamela or his team-mates: I just think it isn't in his nature to show excessive emotion for, well, almost anything. Even his goal celebrations are a bit...meh. Still a killer footballer and a team player, though. So yeah, I wouldn't read too much into Eriksen's reaction to Lamela's wonder-goal. Mason, Bentaleb and a few other players ran to Lamela straight after he'd scored, and indeed I think Mason jumped onto his back in delight. The defenders were too far away to come piling on to him, and Lloris is the gk so not much team celebrating expected from him, I would hope. Overall, I think the team doesn't really have anything against the lad: I can't see why they would.
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So I can sum up some people's opinions:

* Lamela doesn't have a right foot;
* Infact, he doesn't have a left foot either, as he can't strike a football properly;
* He can't dribble past people;
* He is weak;
* All the players hate him.

Anything else? Maybe he's a member of ISIS?
 
NWND said:
So I can sum up some people's opinions:

* Lamela doesn't have a right foot;
* Infact, he doesn't have a left foot either, as he can't strike a football properly;
* He can't dribble past people;
* He is weak;
* All the players hate him.

Anything else? Maybe he's a member of ISIS?
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don't forget his haircut.
 
NWND said:
So I can sum up some people's opinions:

* Lamela doesn't have a right foot;
* Infact, he doesn't have a left foot either, as he can't strike a football properly;
* He can't dribble past people;
* He is weak;
* All the players hate him.

Anything else? Maybe he's a member of ISIS?
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At the risk of being called a troll again and chased off the thread by the Lamelaites, I'd like to clarify that I did not say all the players hate him, I just get the sense he's perhaps a bit of an outsider within club, due to language/cultural issues and being something of an introvert - and his poor performances haven't helped the situation. Townsend and Soldado were having a bit of laugh together on the bench the other day, you never see that with Lamela.

It's really another thing that should have been picked up on before making the decision to sign him, Italian has many similarities with Spanish, and a Spanish speaker can understand the jist of what an Italian is saying and become fluent in the language in a short time - culturally there are many similarities as well.
 
Bonsaiboy said:
At the risk of being called a troll again and chased off the thread by the Lamelaites, I'd like to clarify that I did not say all the players hate him, I just get the sense he's perhaps a bit of an outsider within club, due to language/cultural issues and being something of an introvert - and his poor performances haven't helped the situation. Townsend and Soldado were having a bit of laugh together on the bench the other day, you never see that with Lamela.

It's really another thing that should have been picked up on before making the decision to sign him, Italian has many similarities with Spanish, and a Spanish speaker can understand the jist of what an Italian is saying and become fluent in the language in a short time - culturally there are many similarities as well.
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Or maybe he gets on fine with everyone but is a quiet and introverted.
 
milo said:
Or maybe he gets on fine with everyone but is a quiet and introverted.
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Yes maybe, probably in fact, I doubt he's actually mates with many though. I'm not criticizing him in this regard, it is just who he is but it makes it harder to come to a foreign and culturally different country and adapt. Sandro, for example, had the kind of outgoing personality well suited to it.

I honestly believe he'd happier on and off the pitch back in Italy.
 
Bonsaiboy said:
Yes maybe, probably in fact, I doubt he's actually mates with many though. I'm not criticizing him in this regard, it is just who he is but it makes it harder to come to a foreign and culturally different country and adapt. Sandro, for example, had the kind of outgoing personality well suited to it.

I honestly believe he'd happier on and off the pitch back in Italy.
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I don't see how you can come to those conclusions from so little information.
 
milo said:
I think that you are looking for things that reinforce your views of him.
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I was positive about us signing him and my views on him as a player have formed solely from watching him play and checking out some of Roma videos, my views about him as a person relate solely to how well cut out I think he is flourish within the cultural environment of an English Club, and my instinct tells me he isn't that well suited.

For example, going the other way, the notion of Lennon going to Inter is ludicrous to me, not from a football point of view but because he'd be a fish out of water there and wouldn't get on at all well in that environment - but I had no doubt Bale would adapt well to life in Spain.

I don't know either Lamela, Lennon or Bale personally so obviously I'm just speculating based on instinct, observations and life experience.
 
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