11/25 - Post-Turkey Match Thread - Don’t Sleep In
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Doku had a great game , especially in the first half - but it wasn’t the disaster I was fearing. They kept him pretty much in check in the second half. City were the better team but 1-1 was a fair result.
I can’t wrap my brain around the best team in the world having a goalkeeper with worse positional awareness than a Sunday Leaguer.
Even if positioned correctly he wasn’t getting to the AAA shot - still - he does have a history of this - the Ox goal comes to mind.
12 minutes of stoppage time at Luton. Plenty time for Palace to get an equaliser but I have to root for Luton.
He definitely didn't look like the confident, cocky shit-stirrer he was on his good runs. Havertz getting going offensively would be nice, he's great defensively, but they've missed what Xhaka did offensively from that left side. It would also be nice if they didn't wait so late to score their goals.
We often talk about “confidence players” in footy, and he might be the poster child. You can’t run a keeper out there in the hopes that he regains his mojo. The most likely “reboot” in my mind would be him entering a match he didn’t expect to play in (like a Raya red card or injury), make an immediate save, then grow from there. I don’t know how else you jolt him back into a high level.
Arsenal have morphed into that Liverpool squad a few years back that really knew how to pour on late pressure and generate late goals. Really impressive
So strange that the richest league in the world does this when the automated offside tech exists.
Twice in the last few years that Cash tackles a Spurs player out of a match and possibly out for a time, fuuuuuuck that guy.
That was indeed one where he got the ball, but Villa flying into tackles in a way that might bite them.
Feels like it should be 6-5. Every trip down the pitch - for both sides - screams danger.
Yeah--good thing banked a bunch of points early, cuz December is gonna be a struggle.
But this game reminds me of my indoor games. Back and forth.
I think Spurs deserved a point from that match, but footie is so cruel. Villa are no joke this season, but Spurs gave it a damn good go.
A 2 - 1 Conte or Mou loss at home ruins the whole day. It’s so much easier to take when the match is fun to watch.
Garnacho may have just scored the goal of the year at Everton.
Didn't take it off his shin. Put his laces through it and placed it impossibly well. That was bananas.
Didn't take it off his shin. Put his laces through it and placed it impossibly well. That was bananas.
How is Young not relegated to garbage time at this point? There’s no way anybody could be a bigger liability.
He is terrible. You’d expect a 38 yo with heavy mileage to have deficits of athleticism but to make up for them with smarts and savvy, like, say, Seamus Coleman, who cannot start at RB over a full season at 35 and is badly exposed by super-athletic attackers but is a vocal leader, positions himself well, and does the right thing at the right time.
But Young is just shockingly poor in the mental aspect. Like his red card a few weeks ago, this foul was unnecessary. The attacker was dribbling right into the path ofTarkowski who was attentive to the danger and had his body well placed, between the ball and the goal.
It’s actually hard to think of a Premier League manager in recent history with tactics more geared toward attack - vis-a-vis defense - than Postecoglou. Bielsa was obviously attack minded but still played a relatively traditional back four that would sometimes become a back three. Klopp is known for being risk-acceptant and willing to throw men forward but not to the same degree as Ange. You look at a still of these Spurs matches and there are times when both fullbacks (who are attack minded wingback types at heart) are actually in the first line of attack, positioned in the half spaces in between the three forwards, then you have three midfielders behind, two of whom are pretty attacking players, and then its just the CBs relatively central as a two man line of defense.
Its interesting because its essentially the opposite of the direction Pep and Arteta have gone in recent years, trying to attack in a more deliberate and highly structured way that gives opponents very little ability to counter. Ange ball basically says fuck that and offers the opponent acres of space on both wings, if they can stop Spurs from scoring first. Pretty much a recipe for highly entertaining crazy football matches.
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Just wanted to memorialize the fact that Newcastle won that game with a bench consisting of three GK (meaning they carried four keepers on the active gameday roster) and four players from the U21 team. All Chelsea had to do was not give away any dumb goals and keep 11 players on the field and they would have had a massive advantage in the last part of the game. They somehow managed to do neither.