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Totally agree. I’m going to give this thread a break until I have completed that degree in Advanced Mathematics.
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Enjoyed that a lot. Good use of squad and good performances all round. Bit worried about Ollie. Please be OK for Sunday. Could have given MOTM to anyone from 6-7 but gave it to Diaby for being so much more effective than in recent matches and for a sublime goal.
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DIIIAAABBBYYY!!! So pleased for him.
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Bye bye Mannswerk
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Superb from Bailey. Now bring this home guys.
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I agree. I thought he tried hard to make a difference today - and to an extent succeeded - in very difficult circumstances.
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Ugh, that was horrible to watch. We did OK in the first half but capitulated in the second. I’m not going to name a man of the match because I honestly don’t think any of our players deserved it. Quite a lot of recovery needed to get us into shape for Thursday
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Reaches nervously for Spurs fixture list for the rest of the season.
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That was a horrendous tackle. Not surprised at the red. Our only real objective now is to try to keep the score down.
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Just **** throwing it away now!
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Oh bums
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These first 15-20 minutes of the second half are my least favourite. So often we seem to lose energy and play too passively.
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We haven’t been second best.
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We have defended very well. Spurs barely managed a shot all half. Now just need to be a bit calmer in attack.
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So close!!!
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If we sit back all game and let Spurs do all the attacking we will lose this.
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Ha! Oliie dishing it out as well.
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Never cease to admire how Emery is managing our rather stretched resources this season. That was a reasonably strong side with some players key to the Spurs game sensibly starting on the bench. It seemed the plan was to play a low key controlling game and hope to snick a goal or two as Ajax tired. Unfortunately we didn’t control the game well enough and never really got enough counter attacking momentum, though we might have had a great goal at the death via Zaniolo and Watkins. Thought Lenglet had a good game and Emi saved our bacon not for the first time. There was some quite sloppy passing in midfield and we were muscled out a bit before McGinn came on. I wonder if Morgan Rogers and Tim Iroegbunam were a bit overawed by the occasion. Both emphasised after the match what a massive iconic club Ajax are. Lads, you are playing for a massive iconic club yourselves and the sooner you start drinking that in the better. No room for inferiority complexes. We got a bit better in the second half, and the substitutions helped, but were still oddly sluggish throughout. However, we are going home from the first away leg of a European tie at 0-0 so not too bad a result all in all. Shame the ref was a complete and utter headbanger and I am very sorry for Konsa who shouldn’t have been booked once, let alone twice in my opinion. We will miss him in the return leg.
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Those people may be wrong. Ajax are a shadow this season and lost to AZ a couple of weeks ago.
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Pretty poor match so far. Ajax are no great shakes and shouldn’t really present much of a threat. But we have been a bit passive with some sloppy stuff in midfield .Interesting to see what changes Emery will make. Think this may all be too early for Morgan. Bailey for Diaby.
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I think the BBC reported this in a very ill-informed and misleading fashion and that may have helped fuelled the meltdown. Last time I looked, they are still raising it as if we are the next Everton/Nottm Forest, so they are still slightly embarrassing themselves.
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I hope very much the NSWE business plan isn’t expecting us to achieve CL football for the next 3-4 years continuously. There are about 8 clubs with a realistic chance and we can’t guarantee it will be us every year. We need to be able to build sustainably or another Xia-style crash is on the cards.
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I’m not convinced that “clearing out the players that should be cleared out” is quite as straightforward as you make it sound.
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We do need some perspective here. We have the 5th equal best defensive record in the premier league and the 3rd equal best attacking record (equal with Man C), so I guess we must be doing something right. You wouldn’t think so to read some of the posts on Villatalk. The team who have the fourth best defensive record are Man U who have conceded 36 but have only scored 36. And we are actually equal 5th with Everton who have conceded 37 and scored just 29 - we have scored more than double that. I know which club I would rather be following. I think there is a puzzle about why we often seem to start the second half so slow but I wonder if this is actually part of a plan to slow the game down and try to get a stranglehold on events. Unfortunately we may not have players good enough to play that way, so maybe that is where things are going a bit wrong. But to claim we have some sort of defensive crisis at Villa seems a bit OTT.
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Ok, got it. He is absolutely brilliant and we should sell him at the first opportunity. Balanced.