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Ten Years a Cafite
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Get in line.There are people who think we should replace DDG - I am not one of them
Get in line.There are people who think we should replace DDG - I am not one of them
Sancho or Garnacho. Push Rashford or Elanga up front. Get the energy from pressing that allows the team push up the pitch.I’d be very interested in who you would have played Instead?
No Martial, no Anthony and Sancho has been poor, so who?
A sign of champions, they say.The 2nd half is unacceptable.
Absolutely agree. That's a superb win. We were not so fluent after 60mins, and we need to remember where we are. Our squad needs better players, you can see it. West Ham are a proper side, tremendous attitude, work very hard, and I always anticipated a very tough match. You cannot play super football every game, and that is a great win. We would have been rolled over in recent seasons.I don’t get this lucky stuff.
What were we lucky at? Is the defence not allowed to play well?
They bombarded our area with high crosses and on only one occasion did our keeper have to make a save.
Rice had one shot from distance which as one would expect, DeGea saved.
The only time they got through, Maguire was in the right place to clear.
We didn’t have one of our best days, but there was nothing lucky about it.
Why?Lucky
C'mon. They were all over us last 15 minutes. Nobody would have been remotely surprised if they has scored. Yes we defended well in the circumstances too, but we had also completely lost control of the game. Our lack of threat up front gavetem confidence to pour forward.I don’t get this lucky stuff.
What were we lucky at? Is the defence not allowed to play well?
I’ve never understood the when teams that set up to attack suddenly change with 15 minutes to go. It always increases the pressure. Before the McTominay & Fred introduction West Ham were not dominating as much. Doing it almost gives the the other team the imputes to attack more and makes your team feel like they are under more pressure than they really were so increases nervousnessDalot, De Gea, Shaw and Martinez. All fantastic. But that passing in the last 15 minutes is some of the nerviest shit I’ve seen for years.
Just accept that sometimes we are unacceptable.The 2nd half is unacceptable.
He''s great at what he does but if he's having to make lots of those kind of saves it means we are playing badly. Once we start playing consistently well we will need a sweeper /keeper to challenge for silverware.There are people who think we should replace DDG - I am not one of them
There is no other team in the league that has two back up centre backs as good as Maguire and Lindelof, there just isn't. They are fine as back up.We got lucky (and God bless, De Gea) to win this one, we were unlucky to not win Chelsea one. It got all evened out across two games, but we need a proper striker and backup CB, for feck's sake. We could have won this 3:1 with Varane and a proper striker.
We are already joint 3rd if we win our game in hand.We should be top 4 by the break.
I too thought that Ronaldo was ok. Difficult type of game for him to get more involved.De Gea, defenders, Eriksen, Rashford gave us the win. Casemiro poor, Bruno poor, Elanga meh, Ronaldo not bad but bad in front of the goal. McTominay and Fred as subs didn't bring much.
William Cavanagh