Derby Day Gamethread
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Ghana is taking Gyan off 30 seconds before penalties, not going to give him a chance to miss again.
Anyone else watching the US game. Thought Dempsey may have been offside in real time. Nice work to finish
Ivory Coast ties it up and now in the "something I've never seen before" category, the Ivory Coast keeper is apparently injured and may need a goalie sub. I was not aware that was allowed.
I guess we'll just use this one for the midweek fixtures.
Koscielny with a cool finish from a very poorly defended corner and Arsenal are 1-0 up. Ozil forced the corner with a beautiful little move. He's been at the center of 3-4 promising chances. Leicester has looked lively though - we seem to be having a little trouble adjusting to their wingbacks.
Koscielny with a cool finish from a very poorly defended corner and Arsenal are 1-0 up. Ozil forced the corner with a beautiful little move. He's been at the center of 3-4 promising chances. Leicester has looked lively though - we seem to be having a little trouble adjusting to their wingbacks.
Lovely goal from Spurs, with Lamela and Eriksen combining before Lamela played Kane through to score. Especially enjoyable given the commentator slagging Lamela for not having the intensity to play at Anfied.
The bigger issue though is that this is a classic lesson in why you can't play a back 3 against a single striker. Liverpool have three guys marking Kane, that means they are outnumbered in central midfield, where Spurs have five when Eriksen and Lamela tuck in (which is often) That's allowing Spurs to control the tempo and challenge the back 3 with runners from deep.
That said, if you are going to play a back 3 against a single striker, you have to actually mark that striker. No way Kane should have found that much space given the respective tactical alignments.
The bigger issue though is that this is a classic lesson in why you can't play a back 3 against a single striker. Liverpool have three guys marking Kane, that means they are outnumbered in central midfield, where Spurs have five when Eriksen and Lamela tuck in (which is often) That's allowing Spurs to control the tempo and challenge the back 3 with runners from deep.
That said, if you are going to play a back 3 against a single striker, you have to actually mark that striker. No way Kane should have found that much space given the respective tactical alignments.
Both Skrtel and Sakho are on yellows, we will see if both can survive the second half.
Sturridge is getting into good positions, but you can see his timing is still a bit rusty.
Sturridge is getting into good positions, but you can see his timing is still a bit rusty.
I'm fairly certain I heard a steady stream of profanity emanating from the Kingston, RI area after Rose's challenge.
Dowd was going to let the penalty appeal go, it was the assistant that convinced him.SoxFanInPdx said:
It was a pretty marginal free kick at best but I thought on the replay that Kane was just about level.
It was close enough that I'm not too upset about the call for no offside. It's just irritating that they didn't get the call on either the free kick or the offside call. Either one, and there's no goal.
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