I agree. If Ange wasn't the manager of Spurs and he was at a genuine big club the pundits would be berating him for not having a plan B and playing a suicidal high line.
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They had 2 ruled out to var, 2 players sent off, 2 of their best players went off injured early on
100%. If that's United, every pundit in the world is going in hard on ETH. Rightly so as well. Insane stuff.
This match actually reminded me of Leeds. So much applause for the bravery and entertainment while they kept getting stuffed by decent opposition. Thess kind of football is entertaining but ultimately you can't sustain it at the highest level. You need to be able to go route one when the situation calls for it.
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This is crazy. How Chelsea managed to only score 4 baffles me. Even Luton town would get a result here.
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You forgot the 4D chess mind game burning all the bridge Poch has left with Spurs. No pressure/comparison for Big Ange going forward
I understand your point regarding the ABU media. However, our basic low/ middle block offside trap is still a mess even when the scoreline is respectable. We don't even get the basic correct when playing pragmatic, let alone our high line high pressing game. We have no base for this kind of hypothetical situation.
I don't think so because it's the profile of the manager. Ange is an attacking manager, Erik I'd consider to be relatively pragmatic. If this result happened under Conte he also would have got demolished by the media. It's the perception of the managers that's influencing the view of it all.
What the absolute feck was the point of that
I don't why the pacier Chelsea players didn't just position themselves somewhere facing Eric Dier, push the ball forward and run by themselves. Not as if he was going to get to them.
Make no sense.
What has any of that got to do with a naive manager continuing to play a high line and attempt to attack?
How are they getting praised at all for that game? That has to be the dumbest performance I've ever seen. it was funny thats qbout the best i can say for it.
Fernandes and Eriksen just picking passes to Rashford, Garnacho and Højlund with that line.
No. Take pride in defending. Give yourself a chance to take home a draw which will be appreciated by your fanbase. If you lose, lose with dignity. They conceded 4 goals to a shit Chelsea side ffs. In 1 week nobody will remember the bravery of playing a suicidal highline 2 man down. The goal difference will still be there though.
Ok they were down to 9. The alternate is to put 8 outfield players behind the ball they were never holding on for 50 minutes. You seem to be completely disregarding the fact they were down to 9 men and creating chances
2 of the 4 goals were scored in injury time when the players gave up. At 1-1 and even 1-2 it was still a game.
It's the (English) assumption that route 1 football and all men behind the ball would prevent these sorts of pastings that get me.
The 2 players who got sent off completely lost them the game. He had 2 choices from there either sit back and hope to nick a point or keep going for it and it almost worked.How are they getting praised at all for that game? That has to be the dumbest performance I've ever seen. it was funny thats qbout the best i can say for it.
They were down to 9 men entirely through their own stupidity and childish discipline, and then deployed playground tactics and ended up lucky not to lose about 8-1 at home to a team in the lower half of the table.
Their whole team was sat on the half way line when they were down to 9 men and unable to press or even close anyone down. What was the plan there exactly?
They're going to end up back out of the top 4 if their way of dealing with adversity is to have some kind of extraordinary discipline/tactical meltdown.
"Hi I'm Ange Postecoglu and this is Jackass..."
Even we might have scored more than one goal
Exactly. Hey I have been liking this guy but today was vintage Spurs. Such a foolish attempt. Chelsea were embarrassingly bad as simple as that.How are they getting praised at all for that game? That has to be the dumbest performance I've ever seen. it was funny thats qbout the best i can say for it.
They were down to 9 men entirely through their own stupidity and childish discipline, and then deployed playground tactics and ended up lucky not to lose about 8-1 at home to a team in the lower half of the table.
Their whole team was sat on the half way line when they were down to 9 men and unable to press or even close anyone down. What was the plan there exactly?
They're going to end up back out of the top 4 if their way of dealing with adversity is to have some kind of extraordinary discipline/tactical meltdown.
Because Chelsea were absolutely dogshit and even then, the writing was on the wall before the goals. Chelsea were cutting through them like knife through butter.
They created 2 chances from set pieces and one because of a Gallagher mistake.
