The second half they have had countless chances like those we had last night... same result... row z....
Stoke, Derby, Luton all winning....This might turn out to be a bad night! millwall winning and about to go 4th.
Of the four teams below us on G/D only. This weekend. Luton are at Middlesbrough Preston are at Portsmouth Cardiff at home to Blackburn Plymouth are at Derby Yes the potential is there to be in the bottom 3 come 5pm on Sunday
Spurs is literally being bullied by Gala right now, but Gala is usually drops their level after 30 mins and in second half. They just have to resist in conceding against 2nd goal for now. Edit: 1-1 now, as expected.
3-1 now. It could have been 5 or 6 already, if you are not watching this game you are missing a real Spurs-bashing.
Watching West Brom, they’ve got a midfielder playing at centre back and an 18 year old defender on the bench. Big Chris B is going to destroy them on Sunday.
Whenever I watch the Turkish sides play, whether the national team or clubs, I can see exactly what Acun wants, but it never materialises. I think it's what he expected from Walter but it hasn't come off
Well, Fenerbahce have had more possession and more shots in the Europa league against little club Alkmaar. Bit of a pattern…
It is branded as "chaos football" in Turkey, invented by Fatih Terim during first Galatasaray tenure, on defensive side mixture of a very high line total football press during build-up and gegen-press after lost possession (even before it was a thing with Klopp) but it is very vulnerable at the back and extremely tiring for players. Now his pupil Buruk continues and both were very close to Acun (Buruk even received critics because Acun's best friend Esat is still hanging out with Buruk), so I can understand why he wants it but to be fair it is not suitable to 99% of teams. Some good examples, common theme is crazily running yellow-red players: 2023 against Bayern by Okan Buruk: 2017 with Igor Tudor: 1996 with Terim earliest examples:
The extremely tiring for players explains our second half performances, injuries and why we replace like for like in games... Perhaps?
Indeed, just a good example from this year Gala were ahead of Kasimpasa 3-0 in first half, ended 3-3. Ahead of Rigas 2-0 in first half, ended 2-2. Ahead of Elfsborg 3-0 in first half, ended 4-3. Same for Fenerbahce and Besiktas games, they were ahead comfortably but lost control after 60s. And tonight against Spurs, it was a dominating 60 mins, 3-1, could have been 7 or 8 but they had hard time to close it 3-2, with last 15 mins defending on their half. Same applies for us in my opinion, if we really want to try this approach but I am not sure Walterball we have seen so far is not familiar, his Hamburg days are more similar to be honest.
