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OMT The Mighty THFC vs Abu Dhabi City
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Daisuk
Dimitar Berbatov
Harry is rusty as fudge. Will bang in at least two hat tricks in the remaining matches of the season though.
We are Tottenham
Kasey Keller
you cant attack from the off against this kind of team without attacking forwards....maybe Son or Lucas should have started.
Lloris is becoming a liability... full backs?...Tripper and Davies or Aurrier and Rose?
Anyway , a bad day at the office.
DeleHarry
Jose Dominguez
Harry is clearly not fully fit after the injury lay off
Makes a bit of a mockery of Poch excluding Toby because he is deemed not fit/ready
Legohamster
Ian Walker
Yeah would have needed to started a different team.
I prefer Serge over trips anyway, trips is very limited.
Solid back up, but wouldn’t start him
DeleHarry
Jose Dominguez
Agree but dont mention Dortmund....they are poor
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
What was different in our preparation and setup in those games? We’ve seen wildly different performances against the same opposition this season too, we are not always hooked up the way we should be imo, are City better than us, yeah, that much better, no way.
afsoc4life
Vedran Corluka
Too many distractions. We didnt show any quality to deserve a point from this game.
Took a while but managed to work out Liverpool this year, hope he works out City quicker
I'm confident we'll bounce back against Brighton. We have looked quite poor the last few games v City, Guardiola has got his tactics right for us, they kill our centre midfield at the start of the last 3 games we've played against them. We always look all over the place in the first 30 mins against them, today was the same. Then Guardiola made a tactical change in the 2nd half with Sterling going central and we started to struggle again.
We won't look that bad again this season.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
First time around we did, the first half of the second game was poor though imo.
StephenH
David Ginola
Sadly we need more legs/pace in holding midfield for a start. Today was bad and too many players so poorly and I don't think we are as bad as today normally, City were head shoulders above us in attacking pace.
If we really believe Toby will be paid what he wants we really are deluding ourselves.
SpurMeUp
Les Howe
I think we have better movement going forward with Alli playing on the left wing. He can see angled runs into the centre. I also like Eriksen playing deeper in the Modric role. But able to move forward into space around the box - which is so hard to defend. Then Moura and Son just seem to have the edge of Lamela; whos hard working but lacks a bit of clarity/confidence attacking. Lamela needs games and it could come, but Son's finishing is better, and Moura seems like a more allround player. Great to have all of them. If we played the team I posted on the previous page, I think we'd be dynamite.
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StephenH
David Ginola
I agree generally.
I cannot see Dier continuing in our team, he so bloody slow it's frightening. He a nice lad but he just does not cut it for me. If City are the benchmark then we need some changes to the current roster.
SpurMeUp
Les Howe
Toby has 2 years on his contract - weren't they Poch's words before this game? If so may be just may be he will stay. If not we need one more quality CB.
As for legs in holding midfield, that comes from the 3 CBs, one of whom have to step out into midfield when required. You also have relatively free FBs who can cover in the middle if say Eriksen is forward.
I think we'd be very strong with that team and shape. As mentioned above, Alli coming in off the wing seems to find more space, as does Eriksen arriving from deep. He can also dictate the game from there - start moves and run onto return passes etc.
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StephenH
David Ginola
I like you selection but we won't keep Toby imho and we have a pace problem in defensive midfield.
Maltese Falcon
Niko Kranjcar
Why is everyone picking on Sanchez? Sure he made a couple of mistakes but was still miles better than Lloris, Kane, Alli and Lamela - just for starters...
StephenH
David Ginola
Nothing too much wrong with Sanchez he wasn't at his best but he was not alone!
SpurMeUp
Les Howe
He made at least 3 shot blocking last ditch lunges. I think we just miss some composure, organisation and cohesion at the back that Toby seems to instil. City are very good, so could have made Toby look like a mug too.
Robspur12
Nick Barmby
Sanchez was terrible mate, he cost us 2 goals along with Lloris who was equally poor.. The others were just meh. In mitigation of Sanchez he didn’t get helped out as much as he should have by Lloris, Trippier and Dier but his performance was poor nonetheless certainly not what I would describe as “miles better” than any one else
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