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Football Thread 2013/14 |OT4| Everybody Hates Wenger renewed for 17th season
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that's a fairly accurate assessment. he's quite average.
WAR recon zero
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zzz spurs
Accent yo
Kabouter pls
Promoted team at home on the first day of the season. Nobody wants to play them then for a reason.
kingellesar
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We need to get our midfielders to get the ball into the box for him.
So boring, we need a 3 man midfield, Siggy is dropping back a times but this just doesn't seem to be working at the minute.
Chadli doesn't look good, in the three games ive watched so far ive not seen him beat a man.
brokenbeans
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This, he's just wondering around.
What hype? He was absolutely awful for most of last season before improving marginally towards the end.
Sleeplessnights
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I always thought Speroni's face looked like a generic FIFA pro face.
More the hype around him when Spurs and Liverpool were fighting for his signiture.
Still think Spurs are missing a Modric type player.
Also, where's Holtby?
I was wondering the same abt Holtby.
kingellesar
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Holtby has been injured since the youth tournament this summer I think.
Yeah that Hype died down big time last year, selling Van der Vaart and replacing him with Sigurdsson was an awful decision.
The lack of a quality attacking midfielder is Spur's biggest weakness at the moment, there's just no link between the striker and the midfield.
Frank the Great
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zZzZzPL
I need Serie A.
I need Serie A.
We signed Bale
Speroni had a good save off a clean Siggy strike, other than that fairly dull game.
That was on the list of cliches to watch out for on the LFC site the other day - not sure if that's the first use of it or not but even if it is, it didn't take them long.
Thoughts on yesterday since I didn't post: Great to start off with a win for the first time in ages, when Stoke got a penalty I thought we'd be starting off with another usual draw, but great save from Mignolet, pretty much made himself an instant hero despite looking a bit shaky before. Really impressed by Toure, looks like he could end up being our first choice CB pairing with Agger. Aspas played well, some nice touches and link up play. Great goal from Sturridge, we probably should have scored about 4 or 5 but Begovic had a brilliant game, as usual for opposition keepers at Anfield.
And now let's look at this... I don't even know how to describe it...
@nickparrotttv said:
Yeah he seems to prefer the simple shit rather than what people would expect from a winger.
Sleeplessnights
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This offends my opinion greatly.
fadetoblack
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I think I know what the problem with that plan is, but I don't want to let the secret out.
RE:3-5-2: We have no wingers y0, what are we supposed to do?
Alright. First let me say that I don't really "hate" the 3-5-2 per say. It won us two scudettos and a Supercup in two seasons. It is indeed a very balanced formation and it certainly works for us defensively, since it allows us to play with three pretty fucking awesome CBs at the same time. Having said that, and I'll just recap what the majority of our fans are saying on Juve forums ...
1) We were winning games left and right with 4-3-3 as well, with the added bonus of playing great attacking & high intensity football.
2) Conte's schtick of "we can't play 4-3-3 without Pepe" is kinda ridiculous. And even if that were the case, he & Marry had one full year to find a suitable replacement. There's TONS of 4-3-3 wingers out there, there are next to none that are suitable for the 3-5-2. Zuniga? Kolarov? Ehhh. It just goes to prove that 3-5-2 wingers are (have to be) more defenders than anything.
3) It's been proven that some of our players work much better with 4-3-3. Marchisio and Lichtsteiner especially, but also Asamoah and Giovinco. In fact, Vucinic, Tevez, Llorente and Matri would also benefit, imo, since at least one striker would be able to play, you know, as a prima punta, a pure striker, and not be forced to "work for the team" all the fucking time.
4) Virtually nobody in Europe is using the 3-5-2 and there's a reason for it. As soon as you're up against a team with solid wingers, let alone an uberteam like Bayern, the two external midfielders are forced to play like proper defenders. 3-5-2 turns into 5-3-2, leaving you with no fucking attacking options.
5) The 3-5-2 depends too much on Pirlo and we have to start looking for alternatives, for obvious reasons.
I agree with all of the above.
fadetoblack
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Serie A can be boring, but at least when it's boring it's tactically interesting, as opposed to this Spurs game which is boring through and through.
Only interesting match up is Lennon on the right with the CP left back with the blonde hair.
this was a lie :/
Frank the Great
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I'd respond with some witty banter trashing the zZzZzPL but this game has made me too sleepy to come up with something good.
Well, they aren't threatening at all down the center - Palace is sitting really deep and not leaving space for Spurs to put the ball through. Soldado isn't getting any touches at all on the ball in the box (he's had maybe 5 touches and 4 of those were wayward goal attempts). Spurs have been trying to whip in balls from out wide through Rose and Walker, but Palace seem well prepared for that angle.
Palace, in attack, are definitely playing like a wet fish. If they score, it's gonna be off a penalty or counter attack off a set piece.
Frank the Great
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Fox Soccer showing Tottenham-Panathanaikos. :-D
PrematureQuiche
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not yet. I just hope Lukaku starts!
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