Sir Henry
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Not as serious as you, that's for sure.
Match Threads Borussia Dortmund vs Spurs - Match Thread (2nd leg)
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Not as serious as you, that's for sure.
easley91
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Just stuck on the highlights and I didn't hear it last night but Dortmund were unbeaten at home all season. Not sure if that's all comps or just Europe though. Either way it makes not only going through, but winning with a clean sheet all the more impressive.
Shadydan
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They'd averaged 3 goals a game at home all season or something like that...All we kept hearing about was Reus and Paco was injured for the 1st leg, wait until they come back.
Didn't make a difference in the end.
UbeAstard
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Don't know if any plan is required, surely he is too intelligent to go there.
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Trix
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I personally think Dortmund got their tactics wrong. Obviously they had to come out quickly but imo they pushed it too hard.the intensity was too high and you could see them starting to tire after 35 mins or so. We didn't do hardly any running in that time and were content to sit in and not chase the ball.
I've been very critical of 3 at the back this season but games like last night is how it works. Sitting deep and countering 3 at the back. Playing possession football it should always be a back 4.
I've been very critical of 3 at the back this season but games like last night is how it works. Sitting deep and countering 3 at the back. Playing possession football it should always be a back 4.
Blackrat1299
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Amended for you
Hoopspur
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It was in the tea leafs my friends...
Shadydan
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How do you explain playing 3 at the back during 2016/17 season whilst playing possession football then?
Spurs 1961
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The thing is this is how Dortmund play. At Wembley it was similar they came at us with everything and then tired in the second half especially once we scored. Last season at Wembley it was similar as in the first half they were excellent. But for some quality last minute defending and two great, if identical, breakaway goals from our dynamic duo up front we would have surely, and deservedly, gone in down at half time. However after an hour they just ran our of energy. Look also how before our home leg they lost a 3-0 lead in a fifteen minute spell against Hoffenheim. I believe Poch set us up to play in this way.
Now that leads me on to the away games against Liverpool and City which come soon. I think we can beat Liverpool with the same kind of tactics and have some variation of it against City, though they are more versatile, that is suck them into expending all their energy and hit them on the counter and at the end.
Trix
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Walker, Rose and Die playing more of a hybrid CM/DM role. I'm not saying it doesn't work period, just not with the personel we now have and Rose not playing with the same intensity as he did 2-3 years ago. If you are playing 3 CB's the full backs have to provide the width. When they play so high up the pitch they then have to get back very quickly when we lose possession. Otherwise the back 3 are too stretched.
I'd also add I think the wing backs are playing too far forward now, level with Kane whereas before we would play them deeper and ask them more to overlap at pace.
worcestersauce
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About £20,000,000 apparently and more if other English teams go out I think.
Monkey boy
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I’m sure that I read somewhere that the prize money is split between the English teams with those progressing further getting a larger share of the pot. If that is the case then it would be financially within our interest that at least Liverpool and Man Utd bow out now.
Sir Henry
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Man U have no chance, Liverlol have a slight chance, but they have believed their own hype and thought turning up was enough.
If I was a betting man, Id bet on both going out.
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alexis
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Wasn’t it his team mates wife’s pancake he flipped
Shadydan
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It's HailKingLevy, he has previous - ignore it...
worcestersauce
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In the knockout stage of the Champions League it is not time wasting it is game management, not that we went overboard with it anyway.
easley91
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It's not like Burnley at Wembley going for a 0-0, we had a 3-0 lead to protect. Slowing it down frustrated that oh so famous hyped up yellow wall. We didn't need to go all out. Okay, so we weren't great early on and perhaps rode our luck a little, but after that we grew into it and stood firm.
Don't remember Sancho doing much either. Hyped up English talent who has bossed the Bundesliga came up against Prem defenders and did next to nothing.
They all hyped up the return of Reus for the second leg too, but it was our star man returning into the fold who had the all important say.
Don't remember Sancho doing much either. Hyped up English talent who has bossed the Bundesliga came up against Prem defenders and did next to nothing.
They all hyped up the return of Reus for the second leg too, but it was our star man returning into the fold who had the all important say.
