Alpaywasawesome

Weimann good strike

Why is it that we always sit deep when under a little bit of pressure, it never works and always ends up with us conceding. I understand after the horror 15-goal episode people don't want to be too gung-ho, but the least you have to do is pressure the opposition, and not give them all the time and space to do whatever they want to do in your half while you wait around in and around your box, it's suicide!

How much time left for us to hold on?

What the **** is Lambert doing.

Here we go again! I'll be grateful for just a 3-3 now.

Paul Lambert was wheeling his shopping trolley across the supermarket car park when he noticed an old lady struggling with her bags of shopping. He stopped and asked, “Can you manage dear?” to which the old lady replied, “No way you got yourself into this mess, don’t ask me to sort it out!”

Watch the equaliser against ipswich, it was Bannan who pulled off a brilliant long pass for Zog to play in Bent. Without him there would be no goal. Games turn on midfield players having the vision to exploit opportunities like that, and Bannan has that ability to see the decisive pass, rather than just pass it sideways. The problem with Bannan's contribution is that he's often provides the assist for the assist, and that doesn't show up on stats as easily as goals or assists, and leads people to think he contributes nothing attacking wise - which is untrue, as stated in an earlier example as well: "against Liverpool, Bannan turned fantastically(which left Lucas on the floor) before playing a one two with Weimann and then passing to Benteke which led to THAT back heel goal." Defensively he's meh, but he's useful in attacks, more so than KEM or Delph.

Guzan Lowton-Vlaar-Baker-Lichaj Westwood Holman-Ireland-Bannan Bent-Weimann I actually think Bent-Weimann worked pretty well in the first few games, good link-up play in and around the box. Benteke is too inconsistent, and we tend to play more hoofball with him, when really I don't think that's the best way to retain possession, because even though he tends to win them, we still end up losing the ball. And I don't know why Lichaj gets such a bad rep, he does okay at LB, he's defensively solid, whereas Bennett is a severe liability. You rewatch the Spurs game, during the second half, almost none of the attacks came down the right, most came down the left and through the centre.Why? because Bennett was the weak link in our defense and they targeted that area as he's constantly being sucked into the centre and then doesn't have the pace to recover when the ball is played out wide back to his flank. And Vlaar-Baker instead of Vlaar-Clark because Baker has shown to be the better defender in the past few games.

The Mummy

Yessss! Wont matter much but Stoke deserve that for all the crap they got away with.

Agreed.

Yea, I think he works at the academy. He was one of the few good out-and-out right backs we've had in recent years, along with Luke Young. Although I think Lowton's been decent at CB, hopefully he doesn't play there so often, don't want to waste a good RB in another position again i.e. Luke Young at LB.

Ireland got the ball near the edge of the box, but overran it into some soton defenders, the ball bounced off them and to the left where lichaj/bannan crossed it in - Benteke/Bent won the header flicked it on to the other, but a soton defender managed to head it out to the box where ireland volleyed the ball towards goal and bent applied a decisive touch to guide it past the keeper.

Was it bannan or lichaj's cross into the box that caused all the problems?

Conceded against the run of play. Quite weird to be saying that about our side.

Please God no, not Nzog, he's a horrible outlet, head-down running with the ball that invariably ends back up with the opposition.

Guzan a lot more confident on crosses now.

CLARKKKKK

Bannan is pissing me off with his long passes.

What's all this talk about Lichaj having no pace? Did everyone forget the game against spurs where he matched Bale run after run down the flank?

I think this Brooker segment is appropriate at this time. Brooker We've got to stop making such a big thing of these kind of shootings, it only glamorises it for other potential shooters. The knowledge that such an act is getting get discussed so widely and known to so many people only encourages more of such events.

FFS, Heskey is really so damn slow, playing any pass to him in the final third means he has to slide and stretch to even get to it.

Zog w/ a crap shot.

Cuellar looks so much more comfortable at right-back than Hutton.

AHHH Alby! So close with the header.