Likewise. He's strong and attacking and could have created something. Certainly there was nothing to lose in giving it a go. There was little ambition from Conte to try anything different. Kane was shocking and warranted being taken off. He seems really lethargic this seasonOur team has lacked energy all season. It's very functional but lacks directness at times.
Personally would have given Spence 30 mins tonight
Royal is patently not a 'shit' player but then he also very clearly has a ceiling and lacks that attacking nous to be considered anywhere near elite - certainly not for us and where we aspire to be.Defensively he’s very very solid far more than Doherty and Spence in Conte’s view isn’t anywhere near ready so it’s probably more of a case of he’s the best we have right now, but yea I’m surprised Doherty has barely had a minute yet, we looked a lot better going forwards with him towards the end of last season, maybe his injury isn’t up to speed to start games yet.
Why are the lads not performing in European games away is beyond me. Is almost a fucking complacency that everyone in the club needs to stop thinking we are too good for the so called smaller leagues and teams.Our away form in Europe has been utterly abysmal for over a decade now.
Only touch I saw from Kane was absolutely blasting it back at Hojbjerg afer he'd passed him the ball late on and we consequently lost possesion. Was the touch of a Rhino. I've seen people shoot with ess force lol.what worse than Kane, swear he was playing for Sporting
We can knock Son but Kane was shocking tonight
Sessegnon was ready to come on just before they scored.I’m surprised Conte didn’t bring on Sessegnon and Doherty or Spence as Perisic wasn’t at it and Emerson imploded.
He must have been happy with a point and keeping the players fresh ahead of Leicester.
I think we’ll see Lenglet, Sessegnon, Doherty, Bissouma and Kulusevski all starting at the weekend.
Erm the second goal...Defensively he’s very very solid far more than Doherty and Spence in Conte’s view isn’t anywhere near ready so it’s probably more of a case of he’s the best we have right now, but yea I’m surprised Doherty has barely had a minute yet, we looked a lot better going forwards with him towards the end of last season, maybe his injury isn’t up to speed to start games yet.
343 is why we're too slow and one paced. Our front three can't play against a back three. They've looked bad in the majority of games against one, and most teams are playing with a back three or reverting to one out of possession against us. Our midfield get over run and it's easy to cut out our passing lanes. We've actually played some good attacking football against a back five the few times we went with a 352 formation, and I think it's something we need to try again.I'm happy to keep playing 343, but we need our wingback to be more attacking, and the cm need to get the ball moving forward quicker.
In fact everyone needs to get the ball moving forward quicker, and not kicking it long.
Just too slow and one paced.
lolAlso the snobbishness that some fans have over teams not in the big 3 leagues pisses me off, and that some thought this would be an easy three points is frankly delusion. Sporting are a good team (as I said personally they are the second best team in the group), a loss is absolutely not an unexpected result and this group isn't piss easy.
As I said this is a group where we are both favourites but at the same time it wouldn't be surprising if we failed to get out of it. A loss away against the 2nd best team in the group is no crisis, we move on.
Those flicks around the corner we've been trying (and failing at) recently are proper pissing me off.And Kane needs to stop trying to hit Hollywood passes every time he receives the ball