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No. There is no extra time even.
My mistake it’s just the final. We are a bit short of pen takers.No. There is no extra time even.
No. There is no extra time even.
My mistake it’s just the final. We are a bit short of pen takers.No. There is no extra time even.
Of course, but our forward injuries and absences force Poch to choose between your scenarios, when normally he doesn't have to. And these choices are fraught with uncertainty because you don't know if two young lads will be overawed or outsmarted despite (or because of) being keen as mustard. I suspect we go with wingbacks and pressure on Chelsea's deep playmaker, like we've done successfully before, but with the caveat that our #9 is far less active than our usual one and our niggly attacker (Dele) is also absent from that press.Well, if pressing is important to our game, then we could use Parrot or Sterling, or another youngster with legs and engine and desire. If the important thing is to be over 26 and have lots of Premiership experience, then we’ve got Llorente. It’s the kind of decision any top coach has to make all the time.
The only quadruple we might achieve is to have four fully fit members of our regular starting XI by mid FebruaryThe Quadruple is still on.
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I gotta feeling we are going to get through this semi. Somehow.
Llorente a quadriplegic tonightLlorente with a quadhatrick tonight.
I don’t think Poch does tactics at all, so I don’t think he’ll see that choice at all. He’ll choose the older, more experienced player, but I don’t think he’ll alter the way we play as a result.Of course, but our forward injuries and absences force Poch to choose between your scenarios, when normally he doesn't have to. And these choices are fraught with uncertainty because you don't know if two young lads will be overawed or outsmarted despite (or because of) being keen as mustard. I suspect we go with wingbacks and pressure on Chelsea's deep playmaker, like we've done successfully before, but with the caveat that our #9 is far less active than our usual one and our niggly attacker (Dele) is also absent from that press.
My god I sound like a miserable twat. That’s what happens when your five old wants to party at 4.15 in the morning
You don't think Poch does tactics? Does he just play by the 'Arry school of coaching? "Go run around a bit!"?I don’t think Poch does tactics at all, so I don’t think he’ll see that choice at all. He’ll choose the older, more experienced player, but I don’t think he’ll alter the way we play as a result.
Agreed. @doctor stefan Freud is obviously one of these "gentle parenting" typesIf that was mine he/she would be dancing the early hours away alone, in the garden shed.
If that was mine he/she would be dancing the early hours away alone, in the garden shed.
Mate, that’s what 3-year olds do. At 5, you can give him shaMy god I sound like a miserable twat. That’s what happens when your five old wants to party at 4.15 in the morning
Not as extreme as that, but he’s a very strategic coach. He’ll change the basic shape, but I don’t see much evidence that he works on the detailed interplay of players in the way a lot of other coaches seem to. He won’t (in my opinion) have done anything different in training this week just because he’s chosen to play Llorente.You don't think Poch does tactics? Does he just play by the 'Arry school of coaching? "Go run around a bit!"?
In my opinion Gazzaniga in the limited games he has played has proved himself a competent keeper, a better penalty keeper (saved 2 against Watford earlier in this competition) and a better distributor of the ball than Lloris. If you interpret that to be a slight or an anti Lloris theme, then that's your call. Others opting for Gazza over Lloris is with merit, especially if the game goes to penalties, and not slight on Lloris as you believe.Ah yeah, don't really remember the game besides the result.
I was also questioning the slight at Lloris' penalty-saving ability - as there seems to be a strange anti-lloris theme which keeps rearing its ugly head...
I just hope we don't manage to concedebecause of another unforced error. Too many of them this season
They can't score goals, we have, pretty much a fully fit defence. We got this.