The possession game

[KILLA_SIN]

I know we played well and we deserved the 3 points... (and i got decent points on the prediction league)

but i really can't shake the feeling of how dangerous Cardiff looked. Every time Naughton had the ball i was worried, Bellamy kept closing him down and he didn't look confident on the ball, and worst was we didn't really have any changes on the bench to allow us to switch Verts to the left.

and i can't believe how much pressure Fraizer Campbell and Odemwingie put on the back line, two strikers what won't even come close to our bench this season.

We really need to do better, we created lots and lots of chances, but failed to take any till injury time. Cardiff had a couple of good chances, and if they had taken one of them, would be a really different story.

We have defended really well so far this season, but today i was really worried, straight from kick off piled on the pressure, and they really did well.

Can't agree, I am currently re-watching the game and Cardiff were anything but 'dangerous'. The Campbell chance was down to a poor back pass by Naughton, The Turner disallowed goal was sloppy work by Lloris which led to the corner, Odemwingie shot was poor clearance by Naughton, and there was another chance they had which was down to some sloppy work by us but I can't remember who it was. The only chance they crafted which did not involve us doing something silly was the Gunnarson shot that sticks out in my mind. On the other hand we were all over them and should have won by a bigger margin than 1 goal. If we had been less sloppy it would have been pretty much comprehensive and are only gripe would have been that we only won by 1 goal or left it so late. Another 8 men behind the ball game. I'll give Cardiff this much they were positive in trying to capitalise on our mistakes, but other than that they really did nothing. And all are mistakes were poor tbh and not even really I would say overly forced.

 

[Gbspurs]

Can you believe AVB was "free transfer"!!!

 

[Curtis Peterson]

We had a lot of the possession last year, but often couldn't do anything with it. This year, there's certainly more creativity and Eriksen alone will put us in the position to win a lot of games, as he's a great link between Sandro/Dembele/Paulinho/Capoue and the attacking players. We've really lacked that kind of creativity since losing Modric and van der Vaart. There's creativity in Siggy, Lamela and Holtby as well and as the season goes on and we really settle in, I think games where we have 29 shots and 12 on goal, we'll have more to show for it and sooner in the match. Promising stuff so far though and AVB has been great in slowly bringing Lamela in, while understanding that Eriksen is ready to go.

 

[kaz Hirai]

Can you believe AVB was "free transfer"!!!

had he not gone to Chelsea he would've have been out of our league to attract right now. Cheers Roman you dirty swine

 

[chinaman]

Naughton was so short of confidence that he literally tried to hide from the action by not running into position to make himself a passing option for his teammates. Don't want him anywhere near the first team.

 

[Lilbaz]

Think it' s a bit of a double edged sword. If we don't score the goals to go with the possession then people get really frustrated.
Would have been nice today if soldado could have slotted one of his efforts away just to take the pressure off.