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And you shut up - you're always trying to have fight with me because of my Lamela views. I answer to the mods only.
You're such a bad ass
And you shut up - you're always trying to have fight with me because of my Lamela views. I answer to the mods only.
Alli did very little, he certainly didn't improve our play and I got annoyed at his flicks, but he showed great technique and composure for his goal and left the goalie dumbfounded. The obvious choice was to square it to Janssen, hence why the goalie was so wrong footed.
Son my MOM - always tries to make things happen.
Winks was good as well.
I gotta say I'm worried about the quality of our non Belgian CBs. Wimmer seems mentally flakey. CCV has composure by my fears about his height were shown to be well founded today. He was beaten in the air all day long and beaten for pace. I think he'll end up being a defensive midfielder.
Onomah... I'm not getting it all. A year from now I think he's more likely to be pushing cannabis on Tottenham High Road rather than pushing for a place in Tottenham's first team. He needs a League One loan to get game time and to see if he sinks or swims.
Son my MOM - always tries to make things happen.
Winks was good as well.
I gotta say I'm worried about the quality of our non Belgian CBs. Wimmer seems mentally flakey. CCV has composure by my fears about his height were shown to be well founded today. He was beaten in the air all day long and beaten for pace. I think he'll end up being a defensive midfielder.
Onomah... I'm not getting it all. A year from now I think he's more likely to be pushing cannabis on Tottenham High Road rather than pushing for a place in Tottenham's first team. He needs a League One loan to get game time and to see if he sinks or swims.
Carter Vickers was okay and showed some good use of the a ball and a lick of pace but showed nativity for their second and struggled to contain the rhino they played up front.
Son MOTM? Bloody hell. He was absolutely useless for 65 mins then scored a fluke deflection. He then continued to fuck up numerous openings before a nice interchange resulted in the winner.
I can't remember a player like him. He undoubtably makes stuff happen and is effective this year, but in equal spades he is clumsy, careless and infuriating.
Winks was decent and worked hard, Tripp was alright. Sissoko and Nkoudou were hopeless. Davies was pony. CCV was rash. Onomah was anonymous. Dier was trundling.
Got out of jail today. Hope Poch gives it a proper go from now on.
When you were typing that comment out you just had to know it was close to the mark. Common sense should tell you that. I'm not surprised people are pulling you up about it. It was ill judged and thoughtless at best.
With classic jokes like onomah being a drug dealer on the high Road your talents are wasted hereA lot of posts I write never get posted because I think better of it. I'm not a prolific poster. I favour quality over quantity and try and find amusing ways to say things if possible. This one didn't come off obviously. The message I wanted to convey to Josh was that he needs to get his arse in gear, try and be the main man and make things happen as games are just passing him by when he gets his chance, as these chances will become fewer and fewer, in life as well as football.
With classic jokes like onomah being a drug dealer on the high Road your talents are wasted here
You should be ghost writing for Dave Chappell
Some of the apoplexy in the match thread was hilarious. What do we expect, the FA Cup is at the bottom of our list of priorities. It takes more effort, but for the same reward as the League Cup. It certainly isn't as vital as conditioning ourselves to play against European opposition, be that in the Europa or CL, but all three of these cups cede importance to the Premier League.
If Poch had played Kane, Eriksen, TA etc in this game and they'd have got injured it would have been a fucking idiotic thing to do. We also have to keep fringe players sharp and develop younger players. It's about the medium and long term as well as the now.
This was just one of those typical cup games. We put out a side of back ups and kids, came up against a plucky lower league team in good form with nothing to lose who had a go. We still dominated the ball, we still tried to play on the front foot, but early on they had a bit of bluster about them and made life a bit tricky and got a couple of breaks, a set piece goal and a very fortunate penalty (albeit as a result of alack of experience from CCV maybe). Then just when we were getting well on top, we go down to 10 men. Honestly, there's more positives to take out of this game than there were last week. A ten man, mish mash bunch of young and squadies still managed to have 75% of the ball and come from behind twice to win a game that should have been dead.
The only difference between our performance here and Villa was that Wycombe actually showed some ambition, Villa didn't. We were fucking abject for 60 minutes in that game, but so were Villa.
I think we should have started with Janssen, not Son. That not being the case I think players like Sissoko, Dier and maybe even Son should have gone off before those that did. All three of those were piss fucking poor. And don't go giving me the "Son scored" bollocks, defenders scored both of those, which were off target as were all the other good chances he pissed away. His carelessness on the ball nearly cost us another goal as well.
When you put some of the praise for some of those above mentioned in context of some of the criticism of Onomah it is embarrassing. He's a 19yo. He's playing his first game for what two or three months, his second or third start of the season, in a completely makeshift side, out of position (as ever) and he didn't play any worse than much more experienced and vastly more expensive pro's like Dier, Sissoko, Son, Nkoudou or even Alli or Dembele when they came on. It's fine to critique his performance honestly, call it what it was, a bit fucking meh, but the shit he gets or the anger vented towards a 19yo kid still getting his first kicks is ludicrous. Surely players like Kane, Alli, Dier, Winks etc have taught us all a lesson. What do you reckon Alli's first 10 games were like ? I mean he can bumble around like turtle in a fucking windsock still, for the first 3 months of this season he was fucking attrocious, and that's after about 150 senior games.
I'd be more worried that we paid 30m for a player who has the technique of a fucking fridge FFS. And 22m for Son, who still manages to trip his way round games, fucking up simple things constantly, than I would about a 19yo who's cost us a packet of peanuts not looking like a world beater in his first 5 hours of proper football.
Individual
Vorm - Hard to assess really. Didn't have loads to do except pick the ball out the net. Don't think any were his fault ?
Tripper - OK
CCV - Bit immature to go to ground maybe, but I still think he didn't take the man either, the man lost control of the ball and put his leg into him. I have never been as convinced as some about CCV, but it's early days and I don't think he's generally handled things badly when played. Little stat for you, nobody passed more ball today than CCV, 74 passes, and only Dembele superseded his 91% success rate with his humble 22 passes. Make of it what you will.
Wimmer - meh
Davies - meh
Dier - Poor game. He made Wycombe look like ManC last week at times. Entirely to blame for goal 3.
Winks - Decent game. Saw most outfield ball (i.e. ahead of the defence). As ever, industrious, neat and tidy.
Sissoko - The odd bulldozerly flourish but, as ever, mainly resulting in ultimate disappointment. Poor.
Onomah - Pretty meh, but not the catastrophic event some seem to portray.
Nkoudou - Don't really know why he was yanked at half time and why he was yanked ahead of Sissoko. Didn't do anything orgasmic but was lively and looked more likely to control the ball than Sissoko.
Bumble Min Son - Eratic, careless and wasteful. Eventually the Wycombe defenders felt so sorry for him they decided to kick it in the goal for him.
Janssen - Did OK. Worked hard, won and buried the pen, played a nice little ball for Son for the winner.
Dembele - Meh.
Alli - Was pretty meh. Stuck his goal away coolly, but fuck knows what the keeper was doing, just seemed to step aside and offer up his goal.
As I said, it didn't come off, for which I apologize, but in reality it's mostly the hyper Lamela fans who seem to be making the most of it and using it as a proxy to attack me since I don't post on the Lamela thread anymore. Doesn't bother me at all. PS. @Shadydan I blanked your Yuletide greetings and all your attempts to renegage with me. This will continue for the rest of your life.