He's finally started picking sensible, balanced teams, but they're still not there yet. They'll have plenty of possession and even create good chances. Really can't work out a low block though and his subs are still ****.
You've omitted the small issue of spending £5000000 trillion on attacking players, yet can't figure out how to put the ball in the back of the net. Money well spent, ey?
Spurs are not making it easy for the powers that be, are they. Do not award them penalties ?? Still winning. Second yellow to a player for diving ?? Still winning. Do not book opposition players til ET ?? Still winning.
They were missing a couple of players today and the lineup lacked creativity. Disasi and Cucurella as fullbacks is fairly defensive. Their 6 attacking players were Gallagher, Caicedo, Madueke, Palmer, Sterling and Jackson. Who's supposed to be pulling the strings there? Get it wide and hope, despite few overlaps? May have worked against a more open side. Thomas Frank has now won more league games at Stamford Bridge than Lampard and Pochettino. Not individually. Combined.
Does anybody else think that we broke them? Before we played them they may have only had a point (gained at Everton) but looked reasonably competitive against palace, Forest and The Sheikh Mansour Team After we played them they got tonked 8-0 by Newcastle, 5-0 by the Bottlers, while Fulham and West Scam beat them without breaking sweat
I don’t understand how VAR spent so long looking at that and decided it should have been a penalty. From what I can see, Hwang makes no contact with Schar and, if anything, as Hwang tries to pull out of the challenge, Schar’s foot makes contact with Hwang first when he theatrically dives. In any case, it’s just not a penalty whatsoever. Ridiculous.
I had salmonella once and I **** the bed with less frequency than Premier League officials have this weekend alone
I think Shay Given gets it spot on, apart from not pointing out that it's a dive. Schar knows that he hasn't been kicked and throws himself on the floor anyway. It should just be a booking for him, but now that the penalty was given he should be banned.
Big, unexpected win for Everton, who put pressure on their old manager. The Spam fans are not happy with Ginger Gollum.
Everton were very solid, like the look of Branthwaite had a terrific game, good goal by Calvert Lewin too
It's his style of play. People don't have any patience for defensive football any more. You can have some success with it and get results and that'll give you time. As soon as they stop though, it runs out. West Ham are 9th and they're top of their Europa League group. You'd think that and the trophy last season would keep a lot of fans happy. It's not enough now.
Not sure on that call, yes letter of the law would say a pen but it happens about 6-7 times a game and often goes unpunished.
Ajax are now bottom of the Eredivisie after losing their fifth consecutive league game. They have never lost that many in their entire history. Their youth team is also bottom of the Eerste Divisie, the Dutch 2nd tier. No club has ever been bottom of both.
