It does feel as though KuMB is calling my name. I’ll check with my producers and see if we can schedule an episode.
I thought that Destiny Udogie was supposed to be the half-time guest for this one. He was at the game, according to his social media photos, but they had Paul Whitehouse, instead: Still disturbing accurate.
How refreshing not to have any individual errors gifting the opposition goals, it makes a huge difference. First half was a bit laboured but second half we dominated and deserved the 3 points, we could have scored a couple more if we were more clinical. Kulusevski is still not back at his best, with over hit crosses and some poor touches. The Scammers were awful and I hope the Pikeys go down.
He was the N17 Live Guest pre-match think, I don’t watch it but sure I saw it tweeted somewhere that he was.
Racist and unoriginal Yet another reason we should've signed Kvicha last summer: like **** they'd even know how to be racist about him
I've not even finished reading the first page of KuMB's match thread and I can tell you now I think we're in for a belter
Royal and Davies were excellent going forward and defensively...they widened the pitch at every opportunity creating space inside. Hoejberg played like a leader. Skipp showed exactly why he has to play more...even an early booking didn't phase him. Kane was a bit subdued and his touch off at times. Forster made a decent save and distributed the ball ok but ain't convinced by him in all honesty. Dier was solid but it was hard not to be against such a rubbish team. Romero was a mixed bag. Kulusevski did ok but unsurprisingly looks short of match fitness. Son made a good impact as a sub. I'm feeling generous so ain't saying anything about lenglet and Richarlison.
At the risk of piling on, not least because I've definitely seen an increase in the "Conte's not well, we'd be doing him a favour if we sacked him" discourse in the past 2-3 weeks and that's particularly icky, but it does have to be said there was a noticeable increase in tactical flexibility today compared to the rigid lines of the last three months or so Obviously the rigid vs fluid argument has a ton of nuance to it, after all Norbert's system has a rigid midfield and looks to murder teams down both flanks with FBs and wingers doubling up and it does have to be said Poch's system became more rigid within 2-3 months of his first league game than it was in his first few games where the three attacking midfielders were habitually switching positions, but today and against the Mansourites the players weren't playing like they were terrified of deviating from the pre-planned shape they were supposed to be in So, yeah, a passmap would be nice...
After the game we had a nice sing song in the south concourse. I would post vid if I knew how? MP4 format
Spot on, although I wouldn't be that kind against the last two. Lenglet isn't strong enough and a definite weakness. Richy is less £65m and more 65p at the moment. His attitude doesn't look great either. But I guess it's still early days
Blatantly nicked from r/coys, but worth asking: have we been looking at the Son/Perisic problem the wrong way around, and the issue isn't Perisic hogging the space that Son occupies but instead Sonny dropping back and filling the gaps that Perisic leaves?
