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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT2| @agent_89: My sources tell me the season has started
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Broder Salsa
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He'll be fine.
Aguilera spotted at the stadium?
José Mourinho
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How sweet it is.
Vivalaraza
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We need to get a proper defender back. Carrick is too flimsy.
Can also use his cover in midfield.
Cleverley had one of his better games for us, thought he was very good today and positive on the ball.
It's just the same as last year though, everyone has a chance against us if they play well and pressure us in the right places.
Can also use his cover in midfield.
Cleverley had one of his better games for us, thought he was very good today and positive on the ball.
It's just the same as last year though, everyone has a chance against us if they play well and pressure us in the right places.
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Yea, no one was really consistently excellent in offense. But at least they made the match for United, despite that atrocious defensive structure.
I thought West Brom had the better of the chances, looked very solid, like I said in the week. You lacked cutting edge.
We still look dodgy when we're put under any sustained pressure.
Things will improve a bit when we get our defenders back but we still need some sort of physical presence in midfield.
We also need to get RVP involved more. He scored a lovely goal and had some good touches but he was still wasn't in the game an awful lot.
Kagawa and Valencia had great games. Was impressed by Cleverley too.
Things will improve a bit when we get our defenders back but we still need some sort of physical presence in midfield.
We also need to get RVP involved more. He scored a lovely goal and had some good touches but he was still wasn't in the game an awful lot.
Kagawa and Valencia had great games. Was impressed by Cleverley too.
Well obviously you won't get decimated
Ciise, Ba and Ben Arfa can rip apart out fragile defence. Terry is out, too.
Chelsea also have 0 defenders on the bench. Any injury and we are dead.
Can't wait for Juve after Chelsea. My mates are round and we're driving into town for a chippy before it (diet update).
It was deflected, he intended to cross the ball, but nevertheless. He was MotM.
he's still being too unselfish.
West Brom is playing a way they have been familiar with for a full season and have an unchanged side.
Both Liverpool and Spurs have new managers with drastically different ideas from their old ones. It's not going to be an easy start getting the ball rolling for either team facing WBA early on kind of sucks. A well drilled counter attacking team will tear apart a defensively shaky possession playing team.
Vivalaraza
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You don't wanna know.I don't get it
Is it the fat legs?
:lol :lol well played
Let's be real.
Fully agreed, but our only sharp striker is very small and we have no creativity from deep. Once we get a Modric replacement, Ade gets sharp and the players get fitter, I'm sure we will be OK. Second half we definitely gave away too many chances, West Brom didn't have one shot in the first 45. We ran out of puff after an hour and couldn't handle Lukaku.
Newcastle: Krul; Simpson, Coloccini (C), S. Taylor, Santon; Gutierrez, Anita, Cabaye, Ben Arfa; Ba Cisse
Chelsea: Cech (c); Ivan, Cahill, D Luiz, Cole; Mik, Meir; Mata, Hazard, Bert; Torres. - subs: Turn, Ess, Rom, Lamps, Ram, Oscar, Sturr
No JT and Frank on the bench. Hazard to take his own pk confirmed.
Chelsea: Cech (c); Ivan, Cahill, D Luiz, Cole; Mik, Meir; Mata, Hazard, Bert; Torres. - subs: Turn, Ess, Rom, Lamps, Ram, Oscar, Sturr
No JT and Frank on the bench. Hazard to take his own pk confirmed.
Damn that looked bad for Rooney, I felt bad for him honestly. Impressive by Fulham, didn't think they would give United a scare at OT.
Let me ease your fears, not only did we not beat you at Stamford Bridge since 2007, we are also benching Ramirez and starting Meireles. No Lampard either. No Terry. We also struggled a bit against Wigan and Reading. You have nothing to worry about.
Let me ease your fears, not only did we not beat you at Stamford Bridge since 2007, we are also benching Ramirez and starting Meireles. No Lampard either. No Terry. We also struggled a bit against Wigan and Reading. You have nothing to worry about.
Not that attacking. We are playing a fullback as a winger again.
Any ideas about how long he could be out for?
I meant us as an attacking side. Last time we did that we got decimated by Tottenheim. Pardew hopefully doesn't get complacent and cocky here. :/
You're being harsh Zabojnik. He's really done well for a different league and a new team. He is responsible for 80% of all of Chelsea's goals so far. It is too early to say if he is over or underrated IMO, but without him Chelsea would have looked half as good IMO. He was their game changer for two games in a row. Maybe he can do something today too.
Need a stabilizing presence, really, but it's just a problem carried over from last season, really. Kinda baffled why SAF hasn't adressed that yet, though. A lack of that physical presence can fuck a team up real good, even if the rest of the positions are inhabited by good to great players.
The late first half pressure was good. A hungry fuck-off ballwinner type is essential. Preferably big, but just big enough not to get bullied would do.
But we played Perch and Guthrie in the middle of the park in that game, two players with zero creativity and defensive quality (Perch is OK when he's playing in defence but as a CM? :lol :lol :lol :lol). That is a recipe for disaster against even Fleetwood Town.
no news yet.
Thought RVP was okay today, he still needs time to gel with the team but if the team continues to create chances for him, he'll score. Great goal and think he and Kagawa could do well together. Prefer RVP as a lone striker ahead of Rooney, he seems better at leading the line on his own plus he linked up quite well with Kagawa.
The Modric replacement is the more important, in my opinion. As I've said all summer, he's so important to how you controlled games, and the tempo at which you were able to play, that inadequately replacing him will set you back as a team quite hugely. It's the Alonso analogy I'm sticking by, teams need a conductor on the field and without him they're lost. We didn't have a conductor once Alonso left, and Spurs really need to get one in. I don't see M'Vila as that sort of player.
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