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The "Official" 2013/14 Other teams matches thread

Di Canio has good short-term motivational skills, but in the long run he gets on the nerves of his players. I can easily see them getting to a point where they see through his **** and no longer give a ****.
 
Sideshow and Mata not in the squad. Bent has to do better there.

No fireworks from Chelsea ......but they are TOTL.
 
Jordinho said:
Di Canio has good short-term motivational skills, but in the long run he gets on the nerves of his players. I can easily see them getting to a point where they see through his **** and no longer give a ****.
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Exactly, can you imagine having to go into work and deal with him every day? I think that his players will be scared to take chances/risks because if it goes wrong he will blame them in public.
 
NaijaSpurs said:
After 5 league games? Really?
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That's why I said 'at the moment'. He has Everton playing well, unbeaten and has already had his side defeat Chelsea. The season has a long way to run but he's made a very promising start at the club.

Remember last season how we struggled in our opening games with a new manager. The transitional period for a new manager is never easy but Martinez is making it look so.

Everton's squad has insufficient depth and so they will drop away. How far they drop might well give us an indication in to the success of Martinez over the longer term.

Moyes meanwhile has had his transfer activity criticised. His side have looked far from impressive and they have already dropped 5 points.
 
On such small measures..Foxc**k misses then Villa scores.

Edit: MOTD show Villa survived a few goal mouth scares.
 
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United have the same amount of points this season as they got from the same fixtures last season.
 
Not impressed by Chelsea at all they look so toothless up front. Only 2 pieces of shambolic defending by Fulham handed this game to them. I mean for fooks sake the second goal made Mikel look good. This games sums up for me ( and I'll stick my neck on the line here), that Mourinho will not be as much of a success this time round. I mean against a poor Fulham side, at home, he plays 2 defensive midfielders and one striker who is off form? This Mata business is borderline insane. How can Shurle get in ahead of him? Abramovich looked uninterested for most of the game.
 
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milo said:
I remember DHSF and a couple of others talking him up
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I think he will be a good (not great Manager)... maybe this has come too soon but also dont forget I think his team wil take time to gel. We cant use the excuse for our team and not use it for others.

We will take time to gel and so will Sunderland.
 
Robspur12 said:
Not impressed by Chelsea at all they look so toothless up front. Only 2 pieces of shambolic defending by Fulham handed this game to them. I mean for fooks sake the second goal made Mikel look good. This games sums up for me ( and I'll stick my neck on the line here), that Mourinho will not be as much of a success this time round. I mean against a poor Fulham side, at home, he plays 2 defensive midfielders and one striker who is off form? This Mata business is borderline insane. How can Shurle get in ahead of him? Abramovich looked uninterested for most of the game.
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I am impressed by Chelsea. They are TOTL and they are playing not good.
 
onlyme said:
I am impressed by Chelsea. They are TOTL and they are playing not good.
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Being Top at this stage of the season is meaningless I feel they have had some very lucky results (today and Aston Villa). They will have to play better or that luck will run out. Of course they will probably win on Sat now.
 
onlyme said:
They were not lucky today.
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I disagree needed a poor piece of goalkeeping by Stockdale to open their scoring before that I cannot remember a meaningful shot on goal. In fact if Bent was any good should have been 1-0 down by that stage.
 
onlyme said:
I am impressed by Chelsea. They are TOTL and they are playing not good.
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Classic Mourinho, and they are only going to grow stronger. Oscar has been bloody brilliant btw, I wouldn't play Mata there. You need more industry if you wanna win when you are playing badly. It gives you the option of dominating possession or sitting deep and countering because you have players across the midfield capable of recycling possession through pressing and intercepting.

This has not been Mata's game at Chelsea, even in two tactically quite different seasons, he was always afforded a relatively free role. Under Mourinho no one will be afforded such a luxury role. I can see where he's coming from tbh.
 
Pandy said:
Classic Mourinho, and they are only going to grow stronger. Oscar has been bloody brilliant btw, I wouldn't play Mata there. You need more industry if you wanna win when you are playing badly. It gives you the option of dominating possession or sitting deep and countering because you have players across the midfield capable of recycling possession through pressing and intercepting.

This has not been Mata's game at Chelsea, even in two tactically quite different seasons, he was always afforded a relatively free role. Under Mourinho no one will be afforded such a luxury role. I can see where he's coming from tbh.
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Against the good sides they will not win by simply dominating possession in the middle of the park imo - look how Everton played them beautifully last week and were good for their win.
 
Robspur12 said:
Against the good sides they will not win by simply dominating possession in the middle of the park imo - look how Everton played them beautifully last week and were good for their win.
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Everton will be a force this season. If I was a gambling man I would punt they finish the best team on Merseyside.
 
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