Just finished Leicester 0-1 Man City. Foxes a tad unlucky to lose but we needed that result as it leaves us 2 points behind them with 2 games in hand.
In that terrible performance at Leicester our xg for was better than Man City and our xg against was lower. Funny old game.
Llorente and Rodrigo selected for Spains preliminary World Cup squad. So maybe Marsch hasnt a clue how to use them and just maybe Llorente isn’t as crap as some say?
Southgate is at St James's (or the Sports Washing Arena) watching Newcastle destroy Villa 4-0. No doubt he'll leave Callum Wilson out (who's on fire) and then decide to bring Mings back in.
Llorente will be the unhappiest player in the squad. He's tried to help the manager by switching sides to his unnatural position, gets dropped and then his WC chances suffer because of that. Over to Gessa to confirm.
True, Orta has got it right once with MB and I guess Monk did okay (and Heck seems to be doing alright at Sheff U)
Newcastle up to 3rd at the moment but didn’t sell anyone just spent over £200m on a few players to add to Bruce’s squad. Massive difference between us who spent £100m but had to sell players to give us cash to buy
Dodged a right bullet today with the Spurs comeback from 2 down. Now just 4 points behind Bournemouth and put simply, if we're to have any chance of staying up we must finish above them. Can probably add Southampton to that as well who lost 1-0 at Palace.
Special mention to Brighton. Lose their manager Potter but then smash his Chelsea team 4-1 just a few weeks later. Good job they knew how to identify a replacement and didn't get some tosser in who rips up all they'd built
Marsch seems intent on destroying Gnonto’s international career as well. We all saw their first meeting and Ted didn’t have a clue about the lad. So obviously not his choice. And for that reason he’s not picking him imo. Don’t know how an established Italian international, consistently selected by a renowned coach like Mancini, gets overlooked when it comes to getting a few minutes of game time for a PL team crying out for creativity and goals. Marsch is totally inept.
Forza… the Italians have a huge attacking injury crisis. Willy is definitely a talent but I watched him for the u21s at boro (just a half of football on a windy day) and he was way off the pace and not able to influence the game- neither could gyabi.
