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Utd have had a really **** start and are lucky to have any points.
Lost to us and the filth and should've lost to Wolves and Forest, barring ref intervention.
Ten Hag is probably lucky that they've got the international break now and they can reset.
 
Citizen Kane. said:
That scoreline flatters Arsenal, I feel.

But there is something still slightly off about United. Amrabat should help but the main issue is that there is no one linking things up in the final third. Huge task to place on Hojlund's young shoulders.
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Yeah, it massively flatters us. A draw would probably have been the right result.

Our attacking patterns weren't there, rotations weren't as fluid as last season, we weren't doing enough to stretch them and we were extremely profligate in the final third. On top of that, similar to the Fulham game, we were leaving acres of space open for them to counter and made it easy for them to transition within 2 passes. We still don't have the balance right under these tactical tweaks Arteta's implemented.

Whilst there's still cause for concern, if there's one team I absolutely don't mind getting a last minute winner against, it's Man Utd. So for the next two weeks, I won't be too fussed about how we're playing until we're back from international duty because the dopamine rush from this result is overbearing <laugh>.
 
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Dier Hard said:
I said it the other week too but after watching MOTD last night, did anyone else feel that Chelsea’s XI looked awful for a team that’s had over a £1bn pumped into it in the last 12 months?

If I’m not wrong, Pep has also spent over a £1bn at City yet the differences in quality between the two is astronomical. City more or less have world class players in a number of positions, I don’t think there’s a single player I’d say is actually world class right now at Chelsea. Some have a huge potential and in Silva’s case he certainly was world class but it all feels like a complete mish-mash of players typical of what a yank with no clue of football would actually put together.
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Barney Ronay is afraid that behind Todd Boehly's American idiocy lies some kind of evil genius. https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...bs-own-fans-as-obstacles-in-violent-new-world

I can tell you from personal experience that the chances of anything lying behind American idiocy other than even vaster idiocy are really small.
 
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PowerSpurs said:
Imagine the reaction on here if we had signed Jonny Evans as centre back cover while retaining Lindelof and Maguire with all three of them getting on the pitch in the first game after the window.
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Two soft midfields cancel each other out. Arteta's decision to eff up his team as a sacrifice to his own genius is trumped by ten Hag's decision to wheel in a defender from the old folks' home. Granted that Partey is hurt, it seems like common sense to me to play a midfield of Partey, Rice and Odegaard, at least against bigger clubs...and not to play a defender who's both a has been and a never was.
 
redwhiteandermblue said:
Two soft midfields cancel each other out. Arteta's decision to eff up his team as a sacrifice to his own genius is trumped by ten Hag's decision to wheel in a defender from the old folks' home. Granted that Partey is hurt, it seems like common sense to me to play a midfield of Partey, Rice and Odegaard, at least against bigger clubs...and not to play a defender who's both a has been and a never was.
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Who's Spurs 5th choice CB mate?
 
Diego said:
Who's Spurs 5th choice CB mate?
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Davies, I guess. I'm surprised Man U would bring someone out of retirement who didn't look up to speed. I would have thought they could have found someone around Reguilon's level: not good enough to start for a top half PL club, but maybe good enough to start for a smaller one.

In the past I might have been wise enough to refrain from criticizing rival managers, because I might have remembered comments like that have a way of coming back to bite you. But alas. There's no fool like an old fool.
 
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Davies, I guess. I'm surprised Man U would bring someone out of retirement who didn't look up to speed. I would have thought they could have found someone around Reguilon's level: not good enough to start for a top half PL club, but maybe good enough to start for a smaller one.

In the past I might have been wise enough to refrain from criticizing rival managers, because I might have remembered comments like that have a way of coming back to bite you. But alas. There's no fool like an old fool.
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So in no position to comment on Evo then?
 
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