Insomnia
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Worst Yoda impression ever
Jose Mourinho
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Gassin's finest
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You're entertained when we concede?
bat-chain
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On that 'this is the mentality' clip up on Champions League official Twitter, I'm surely not the only one thinking that guy is a bit of a whopper. That squads mentality has been far better than anything he's been a part of in the last few years.
jurgen11
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Entertained possibly the wrong word choice....I went last night and was entertained overall....
Gassin's finest
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I was in the standing... Second half was lung bursting. The first half was about as far from entertaining as I can imagine. Overall it felt less like entertainment and more like schizophrenia.
spids
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Don’t they wipe them after the group stage?
Tottenhamboy85
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No once the quarter final is complete
Trix
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The in game changes last night weren't new manager bounce though we're they. They were tactical decisions based on what was going on on the pitch,the likes of which we haven't witnessed for well over a decade.
doctor stefan Freud
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I think some of us are underestimating the significance of that early change. It gave us a foothold in midfield, and fortunately Eriksen showed aspects of the player he has been for most his time here. Mourinho deserves credit for both the early change and his choice of player. I pissed and whined at my wife about what a fuck up it would be bringing Eriksen on, how it should be GLC coming on. Shows what I know. I think Mourinho is a master at the numbers game- he probably figured that Eriksen knows Dele, Kane, Son and Moura’s game better than GLC, so in the intense circumstances of the game where not much was going for us, we had a better chance with familiarity.
What ever the reason, it worked, and it wasn’t luck that enabled it to work
dudu
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Spot on I think.
pffft
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Sometimes, yes. Last night I was entertained by a goal from Olympiakos, where the fella shifted the ball beautifully with a very deft touch then cracked in an unsaveable beauty from distance. I wasn't happy we conceded it, but I was entertained by the quality of it.
Tell me you weren't entertained by Messi when we played Barca at home. You knew he was going to find the inside of that post sooner or later, and it was thoroughly entertaining watching him try for it and hitting the face of the post twice instead before finally getting it right. I hated that we conceded it, but the whole process was damned entertaining.
I find it impossible not to be entertained by quality football, even if it goes against us. To be entertained is a big part of why I watch football...
dagraham
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dontcallme
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New manager bounce is statistically not true.
The substitutions made are down to Mourinho's tactical nous.
But obviously he will be judged over a longer period than his first two games, like every manager in history.
Yid-ol
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I get that some fail to see tactical changes that doesn't involve subbing on a big lad and start whacking it long, but in so many words claiming that something Poch did numerous times when we needed to change a game is something he would never be capable of masterminding looks kinda strange to me.
easley91
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The key isn't the change itself, but the TIMING. Poch would leave it until way too late and we all know it. Mourinho did it first half, gave us plenty of time to get back in to and win it.
Everlasting Seconds
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It seems as if you are trying to say that you think that Pochettino made plenty of incisive substitutions at opportune moments in time. If that is indeed what you are saying, the only thing I can think of as an explanation is that rather than dealing with the realities such as they in fact are, as so many of us like to do, you prefer an ulterior reality as a foundation for making up quite creative fiction and then posting that fiction on the internet.
wrd
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Substitutions were certainly Poch's weakest point but I think what @Kiedis is saying is that there was tactical changes which didn't necessarily involve a personnel change which turned several games around. We were never short of a comeback win and we came back from 2-0 down at least a few times. I know everybody wants to praise Jose for the turnaround and rightly so but everybody in the match thread needing to say that this couldn't have possibly happened under the previous regime was wide of the mark. We can praise the new guy without having to have digs at Poch. substitutions specifically though I'm looking forward to seeing happen much earlier in games.
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Everlasting Seconds
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I do agree to the general idea of turning results around, that did happen. Earlier on though, I'd often put that down to fitness (ie. strategy) not tactics. Tottenham would just run and run until the opponent was physically beat, and then score a couple of goals. Which wasn't a bad thing, I think we all actually quite enjoyed it. But the strategy grew more and more redundant as more and more teams reach new levels of fitness themselves and also set up in a smarter way to last the full distance vs. Tottenham.
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