When you get a sudden period of sun up north, that burst of vitamin D does strange things to your judgement
Second half mate. We need to take the energy out of their legs first. Fitness will play a big role in this match.
Burnley playing completely different to how I imagined they would be. Giving us a good game instead of trying to contain and hit a rare counter. Second half will be interesting if this stays 0-0 by HT.
This is how Burnley made themselves hard to beat under Dyche in the first place. Press as a team and cover a lot of ground. It's also why they struggled so badly with European football, as their squad isn't up to it and the extra games make it virtually impossible. George Boyd always used to be top of the Premier League distance tables, as he'd run stupid amounts in every match.
I still think they’ve troubled us later in that half too. Barnes had a good shot on goal after some high pressing. It’s not been a bad 0-0 game so far in my eyes. We’ve got to up it in the second half though, hopefully our fitness levels will shine through and create more chances. Wouldn’t be against taking a CB off for Moura or Lamela. This may also need a bit of Nando muscle as well.
We need to keep the ball well at the start of the second half and let them run themselves into the ground. They'll have a second wind and will come shooting out of the blocks again, so we need to kill that off and then break them down.
I think we need to have a few more shots instead of trying to pass the ball into the net. Get the keeper spilling a few and Kane gobbling the rebound.
Poor first half, the pretty slack passing and decision making. What's bothering me most is that we are not switching up the tempo much so far. Burnley are playing things pretty simple and maybe we need to do the same. Leave the wingbacks high, and get the ball out to them quickly, if they start countering that then there will be more space in the middle.
We do not look like scoring and they have got a lot of belief...they will come out strongly in 2nd half imo. They may tire as they did v united but they were away there...their crowd will carrying them through at home. We need a couple of quick goals or we will get nothing from this . Kane returning has unbalanced us going forward. Eriksen has delivered nothing. Rose is just whining and Sissokoand aurier have gone back to being the ffs twins.
