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Premier League Gameweek 3
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
I’d prefer him to stop playing with a second striker than drop Kane.
For Eriksen to get out of Spurs it will have cost him tens of millions in possible earnings. It isn’t surprising that he’ll probably leave on a free so he can max out on his signing on fee and wages.
Or it’s just the kind of player he is, did the same at Ajax. Give me 3 top player who bought out their contract?
Disagree. He was much more forward and direct in his passing than Winks.
Opinions, I didn’t see it.
Toby shows more willingness to commit than Eriksen. It is not rocket science to know that something is not right between Eriksen and Pochettino relationship for him to not start Eriksen. If you were in the background you will have a better understanding of what is going on.
Good teams wins when players take their chances. Unfortunately for Pochettino his players did not take theirs today. Poch philosophy is possession based, with attacking fullbacks, intricate passing and diagonal passing from deep within their half. We saw that today, but unfortunately for Poch the quality end product was not there. It a team dominates, create chances, but the players don’t take those chances, it is obvious the players fault more than the manager.
If yer man with the banner had his way you'd probably be looking at 60 years for United.You don't have much to say have you?!
Don't know why they let you post these stupid posts around here.
At least 3 years is NOT 30 years.
Maybe shift Lo Celso into Winks position. Going by today winks has no creativity in him. Just passes to the full backs all the time.
What the feck are you talking about? Toby has said or done nothing that he was more willing to commit, please tell me what Toby has done?
Ye did not create that much by way of chances. Son in the first half and a few towards the end, in particular Mouras chance.
Ye should have had a penalty though.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he signed for us next summer if Pogba goes to Madrid. I don’t think he’s economically motivated though, if he was he never would have resigned with Spurs.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/jahrestabelle/wettbewerb/GB1/saison_id/2019
Premier League table since the start of 2019. Makes for poor reading for Spurs fans.
Premier League table since the start of 2019. Makes for poor reading for Spurs fans.
Why would he sign for United if he wasn’t economically motivated at this moment in time? I would say if he does you would be equally frustrated by him.
He played a peach of a ball in behind to Sissoko when Sissoko was shifted to RB. That is what i am talking about. Winks did none of that. A better ball back from Sissoko and ye could have scored because there were Spurs players there.
I m referring to his attitude on the pitch. Look at the pre-season game Spurs played. Eriksen looked uncommitted with piss poor penalties and sloppy movements. Alderweireld on the other hand looked more professional. I m pretty sure, it is the same thing in training as well. When a player is not motivated to play for a club, the sensible thing a manager to do is drop him or let/help that player find that motivation again.
He played one ball? Wow
Ok if you want to be sarcastic about it, good luck to you.
We did not create many chances today. For a majority of the game we didn't create a single clear cut chance.
Going in to the last 5-10 we created a couple, but that's exactly what you would expect. You can't rely on a couple of chances created late in the day against tired legs.
We dominated and did nothing with it for 90% of the game. Slow, laboured and again .. a creative void. You don't lose games like this because of 1-2 missed chances, you lose them because fundamentally you failed to carve out enough opportunities to put the opposition to the sword.
This was all compounded by the fact that we defended lazily, conceded a goal and from then on faced a mountain to climb. You can blame the players for that if you want, but as a team we're not creating anywhere near enough opportunities to consistently win games. I don't know what game you were watching where you thought we were missing enough chances to comfortably win the game, but it was a completely different one to me.
You expect us to dominate against Newcastle, of course you do. They had one man up front all game and didn't press us on the ball. But despite that they managed more shots on target than we had (many of our efforts were weak and speculative) and whilst Bruce's plan was pretty simplistic, it was at least a plan. We looked like we were completely clueless in the face of a parked bus.
I think you'll be the only one on this forum who will look at that game and say we created enough or looked well coached in an attacking sense.
Eriksen had an operation in preseason........
Mate I’m a spurs fan, I fecking wished he had performed....
Same reason Liverpool we’re always able to sign top players, to play for a legendary club. The money will help of course but if his options are an ambivalent Madrid or a club that really wants him then I can see it happening.
I think for Madrid it’s like Pogba which is they’ll have him but only on the cheap. Going to Madrid as a low priority player can end badly.
I think Erikson wants a change of climate.
But yea i think Pogba is going to madrid next season, but i doubt we will replace him with Erikson.
Wouldn’t have a problem if he wants to go, more money for him.
Well, it was telling how one of the assistants (I think Jesus Perez) used his index finger to point at his portable tactics board when addressing Lo Celso, but used his middle one when addressing Eriksen. Happened around 58-59 minute when they were both getting ready to come on.
The failure to sign fullbacks to come in and compete for a starting spot was something I was banging on about a lot in the summer. Failing to sign a RB in particular was bizarre after selling Trippier, against teams like Newcastle two good fullbacks who can overlap and play a good ball in are invaluable.I don't get the CM he picks. 2 players with 0 creativity vs NewcastleYou've strengthened a lot at CM but totally ignored the FB spots.
Thankfully for you, the other 3 are dross as well so think woull finish 3rd again if Poch just plays Eriksen in the middle from the off.
Not so sure right now, I thought our form would turn around at the start of this season but we've picked up where we left off in the league last season. A lot of the players seem a bit disinterested which is a huge worry.
Joelint ON
Give up posting such comments as you don't know what to say anymore.
No idea how that wasnt a penalty on Kane.
Yep, this says it all.
Not just a poor start to the season, we have been very poor for a decent while now.
Played well according to reports and what I've read in the press/media. Many twitter fans seem to be impressed too..
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And very good reading for Crystal Palace fans
Then he shouldn’t had played those matches. An operation doesn’t make one take penalties that showed he was unmotivated to be there and labor around uninspired.
We must have been watching two different games because the Lucas and Kane chances are as clear cut as you can get. Plus the through ball by lo Celso, to Kane which was a penalty. These are three clear cut chances. Most top clubs don’t need that many to score, but Pochettino unfortunately doesn’t have the quality at Spurs to finish of those easy chances. If Spurs wants to be a top club, the players will have to scored these chances. I tend to believe that Spurs players are really wasteful in front of goal. How you can’t say these three chances were not clear cut chances is beyond me.
You need help.
Just always interested in the facts rather than the opinions pieces. The fact remains that there were three maybe more clear cut chances. If anyone of these easy chances went in, the narrative will be different like the Villa game. Pochettino does not control these players and ask them to miss easy chances. If Spurs created 0 chances, played static, zombie football, and/or outplayed by Newcastle, then criticism to Pochettino will be more justified.
It was as good/bad as us yesterday, probably worse. No idea which game you were watching if you thought they weren't static and slow in their play. Norwich put 3 past this team ffs
Didn’t think he was that good really. Wasted the ball far too much.
Newcastle didn’t park the bus against Norwich. Spurs passing was crisp and not as static as we were yesterday. The space we had for our goal, Spurs didn’t have that amount of space because Newcastle was committed to parking the bus. Spurs was organized properly and similar to us, a fluke direct ball by the opposition resulted in a goal. Fluke in that, it could have been defended better. You can’t compare Newcastle performance against Norwich against Newcastle performance against Spurs. I m sure Spurs would have preferred playing against a team that was not committed to defending than they were attacking like against Norwich.
Nice, we're 4th we only lost to a 5th place side.