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Potentially goal of the month.The result will disguise the absolute peach he scored.
Potentially goal of the month.The result will disguise the absolute peach he scored.
He's the closest thing to Robben / Nani you'll get in world football IMO with the type of shot, expect a few of them a season.The result will disguise the absolute peach he scored.
They spent years under Ole who indulged them and allowed them to be lazy wankers. It’s why I’ve said the biggest damage Ole did to us was ruining our players.I have said it many times that Ronaldo's inability to fit in the team's play at this stage and his age are not hugely important as the guy will be gone soon enough. The bigger problem has always been the younger forwards, who may have a longer future here. And if you think about it, the guy who can't be named had exactly the same problem, with all his undoubted talents. It is very weird that our youth players who make it to the first team are usually known to be hard workers.
Not really. If we want to blame it on managers, there are a few with Rashford. When Rashford broke out, it was LVG who said running was for animals. And, then Jose who just played a low block from the first minute to end coached him. Ole was not the only one to blame for this.They spent years under Ole who indulged them and allowed them to be lazy wankers. It’s why I’ve said the biggest damage Ole did to us was ruining our players.
They really sabotaged us.I missed the second half. Rewatching it now. I’m 10 minutes in and it’s genuinely making me furious how shit they’re playing. The rest of the team have actually upped their game a bit and City are finding it difficult to get out of their half. But the two of them are fecking strolling around, in their matching yellow boots, making a mess of almost every move they get involved in. They’re so crap it looks like deliberate sabotage. Beyond belief, it really is. Two local lads, playing in a derby! What is going on inside their heads?!
Looks like we’re not the only ones noticing that…I missed the second half. Rewatching it now. I’m 10 minutes in and it’s genuinely making me furious how shit they’re playing. The rest of the team have actually upped their game a bit and City are finding it difficult to get out of their half. But the two of them are fecking strolling around, in their matching yellow boots, making a mess of almost every move they get involved in. They’re so crap it looks like deliberate sabotage. Beyond belief, it really is. Two local lads, playing in a derby! What is going on inside their heads?!
Ignore the tweet, mind. I think that’s more on Sancho and Rash than Antony who did a decent enough job going back.Tweet
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Yeah, Antony was one of our most involved players. Certainly in the second half.Looks like we’re not the only ones noticing that…Ignore the tweet, mind. I think that’s more on Sancho and Rash than Antony who did a decent enough job going back.Tweet
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I honestly think they'll be replaced soon. Once Martial is back in the team Rashford and Sancho will battle it out for the left wing. Then ideally in the winter, more likely summer we buy another 1 or 2 forwards with both quality and workrate and they both will get the maguire treatment.They really sabotaged us.
You can't carry 2 players who proceed to put in a foot wrong in basically every single action they had. They were terrible.
I'd be very tempted to bin both in the summer if they don't step it up.
He's done pretty well considering it's a new league, he's young and the state of our team? Seems his colleagues need to cop their shit on far moreReally needs to cop his shit on, scored some lovely goals this season but hasn't really been at the races otherwise which is doubly disappointing because he had a pretty good preseason.
I don't think so, the first half in particular, they were killing us down our right hand side, partly because Dalot couldn't cope on his own. Antony does seem to have more grit than the other two in terms of workrate and he was decent in the 2nd half but he was culpable too.Looks like we’re not the only ones noticing that…Ignore the tweet, mind. I think that’s more on Sancho and Rash than Antony who did a decent enough job going back.Tweet
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Are you talking about Antony or Sancho?Really needs to cop his shit on, scored some lovely goals this season but hasn't really been at the races otherwise which is doubly disappointing because he had a pretty good preseason.
My bad, thought I was in the Sancho thread.He's done pretty well considering it's a new league, he's young and the state of our team? Seems his colleagues need to cop their shit on far more
Sancho indeed, oops.Are you talking about Antony or Sancho?
Exactly. You can't both press from the front and track all of the way back to sit deep next to your fullback. At least not at the same time. It's one or the other. I think, and this has to be said yet again, that he was hurt because the rest of our forwards were doing a shit job pressing from the front, so it just caused disjointedness in our defensive structure and City is always going to expose that.It was actually Dalot that didn't back Antony up in trying to press from the front. And Dalot ended up causing himself and the midfield huge problems. Antony at one point advances forward to apply pressure/block the passing lane centrally and hence signals towards Dalot to engage the City attacker in the wide space but Dalot is nowhere to be found and City advance the play easily. That then results in the back-line dropping deeper and gaps opening up in the half spaces which City exploited because we lost our compactness.
Bloody hell that is pathetic from the two of them. And yeah, folk are ripping into Ronaldo for not pressing but those two are just as bad. Fed up watching them do feck all against opposition who have the ball, and not only that when they do get it they can barely keep it. Not just on Sunday but this is killing us in general, where we can't build an attack because they cannot keep the ball.Never mind the whole team, if our other attacking players could match his workrate we’d be a hell of a lot better off. According to fbref he made 18 pressures yesterday. The two chumps who’ve been dropped from the England team made 16 pressures between them. Needless to say he also made more tackles and interceptions than the pair of them combined. Most shocking of all, he racked up more than double the amount of their combined total number of touches (and not far off three times as many passes!).
We all know Ronaldo has become a bit of a meme for strikers that don’t work hard enough but Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee seem to be taking this as some sort of challenge to see who can be the laziest attacking player in the league.
EDIT: I made a bollox of the touches/passes stats. He actually just matches their combined totals for both. Didn’t double/triple them. Still though…
The funnier thing is the academy at Sao Paolo nearly let him go at 18 they didn't think he'd make it, his growth has been immense considering when he got taken up to play footballI love how he moves with the ball and protects it if only we had more players who can control and protect the ball like he does.
Think Sancho played about 8 games under ole but go onThey spent years under Ole who indulged them and allowed them to be lazy wankers. It’s why I’ve said the biggest damage Ole did to us was ruining our players.
Antony has the highest ceiling on our team. A wonderfully balanced footballer with skills to match. Once Dalot learns to work with antony and make the overlapping runs he’ll be lethal.The result will disguise the absolute peach he scored.
Since when was Sancho from our youth set upThink Sancho played about 8 games under ole but go on
If we can get the striker running to the right when he cuts in it'll give the option of a quick pass through the defensive line into the feet of the striker on the right side while the keeper is moving to the left to defend the shot. He'll also open up space around him in the future because either the midfielders will have to cover the inside bit to take away the cut in, or the fullbacks will have to, leaving space out wide.His cutting from the left and curling the ball looks dangerous. He'll score a few more like that this season. Improving game by game. Also glad to see him being strong on the ball and hard to take it away from him. So far he seems a bit reluctant to go on the outside but I'm sure he's still being a tab bit conservative and with more game and confidence he'll start doing it.