Also think Ighalo is the better choice up front against deep lying teams.
I guess Ole had to back his first choice no9 tonight. But yeah, with the games coming thick and fast, and also against lower teams that will be sitting back, Ighalo will definitely be having his fair share of minutes to shine for us.
According to this forum prior to the match you were going to beat us easily anything between 3 and 6 nil.
It was just jokey bullishness.
We were absolutely terrible when we had injuries and had to play with whatever we had at disposal and only improved when we got Bruno and some good players back so this point is BS.
I agree with that. Felt Spurs where there for the taking and then seen McTominay and Fred starting. Made no sense. Some of best football leading up to the break had Matic involved. Tactics could just have been over cautious given how long the players have been out and we havent exactly had a preseason considering football has been off for about 3 months.
This is what jose does. Lowers your expectations until you start feeling greatful for drawing to westham after a dreary performance because "it could've been worse". Its a slippery slope with our mou hopefully yours doesn't get worse than what we had.
That's an interesting stat, but Chelsea are only a few points better and a lot of these issues happened in the first half of the season. It's getting better, but as many people have said, breaking teams down who are properly setup like Spurs were today isn't easy and you have to take your chances. You have to make those half changes count, but United didn't today.
Impact of the draw didn't sink in till I realised Alli and Moura were out hours after the match. This is one we really could have done with. Feel confident City's ban will be upheld so solidifying 5th ahead of Sheffield before playing them would have taken a lot of pressure off us heading into our game with them on wednesday. Missed opportunity on two fronts because they can now play defensively when we meet.
Yepp. This is how he sets his team up regardless.
Bingo.
Wrong. Rashford at the 21st min was the biggest chance of the game.
OMG have you forgotten how tedious it was under Mou and how much we’ve improved under Ole (recently)
All but Mata played in that game, we've had this problem for so long its actually infuriating. I do think Pogba will unlock this problem.
Their only chances of the match were the goal and the Son header. We had loads of chances, the 2 Rashford ones in the first half, Martial in the 2nd and Greenwood at the end, in addition to the goal.
He didn't know how to win though. They got away with a draw.
100%. I was watching Spurs and thinking that I can't believe I had to watch this for 3 years.
Spurs were really poor to watch last night. Fine, they got a draw, but as you pointed out we played a part in giving them that assist. Making his team out to be this club of paupers that are so poorly resourced is also extremely bizarre (complaining about the 5 subs etc.). It's Spurs, not Norwich?!
Agree with this. You just have to see the few chances we created after Ighalo replaced Martial. It created a lot of spaces for Mason on the right. He should get the nod over Martial in the next game (and Mason over James).
Our game plan is to build through our two DMs and then try to release our two wingers with support from the fullbacks.
So Tottenham ignored their #10 position and ceded possession to our two least creative players from the front 6 (Fred and McTominay); they kept their LB/RB deep to go man-to-man on Rashford and James; and they defended on the edge of their box to prevent us utilising our pace on the break.
Without a CF capable of dragging their backline out of shape, we couldn't do anything to break the block.
oh you forgot kicking the opposition, I think that is a key part of his strategy
Can you imagine being a Spurs fan watching that game?
