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F*ck keeping it tight, you’re at home and 3-0 ffs… be proactive rather than reactive. Otherwise you give the opponent confidence that they’re pushing you back. So much of sport is psychological, sitting back at that point was a disaster, credit to the Spams really but we gave them several unnecessary lifelines…

Im not sure we can with current personnel tbh. But it would certainly help if he picked the best men for the job and aurier sanchez and sissoko aint the best fir any job im afraid

I dint believe for a secind that he didn’t say keep it tight first 15 in the 2nd half. Its in his dna. Thing is it becomes very hard to step it up again, and given we seemingly have lost the ability to defend surely the smart move was to say go out and give them hell, get another goal and the game is done?

Let’s put this down to a blip, going forward we look like we can score against anyone. We just need to cut out the sitting back on the lead once we have it…

What type of “c*nts” were we in that second half Jose? 🤔

The suspicions were far from unfounded DD, much of last season made for fairly grim viewing. Apart from the first handful of games after he arrived, we were dull as dishwater.

It certainly wouldn’t hurt, I’m just concerned that it isn’t always wise to throw a young player into the firing line who’s never played at this level yet. He needs experience under not too great a pressure, if it doesn’t go well you can shatter their confidence that they’re ready for a higher level.

Winks isn’t done, would like to see him get time alongside a defensive midfielder like PEH and also building an understanding with Tanguy.

As for Doherty, you can’t do any worse than Aurier defensively, you just can’t… it’s impossible! 😂

So whats the alternative playing Winks, Doherty and Rodon.
I’d be happy with this??

I agree, Sissy went from totally abysmal to semi functional and we’ve been sold the myth that this was the greatest rebirth in sporting history. He’s not good enough and never has been, as for Aurier, I can’t believe we are still talking about this… he should be long gone.

Which brings me to the point; that while we get so excited about these 5 signings in one window, who will have massively improved us? Apart from a defensive midfielder being a priority as well as a backup for Kane I see little improvement only depth here.

Bale is the game changer the rest merely bolster a previously paper thin squad. And Aurier is still there… a decent window but a stellar one?

We have been so starved of transfers that we tend to get a little overexcited when we just do a little bit of what other clubs just do all the flipping time!

Sissy is a nice guy but his stupidity of needlessly stretching out his arm in the area led to the early penalty in the final that ultimately sealed our fate. He gets hardly any criticism for that when it was so costly, Mane obliges and flicked it t his arm. Total stupidity at that level…

Sanchez is a bit more of a conundrum because he was really good for his first season or so with us. Aurier however has always looked out of his depth defensively in this league.

Given unfounded suspicions that we would be playing boring football under Jose I am enjoying our entertainment, but naturally need to tighten up defensively (or moot point can we tighten up defensively??)

Dunno if its just me but we are dangerously close to going back to square pegs and not quite round holes but certainly rectangular ones. The boys signed at the back are wing backs not traditional full backs, so play to our strengths. Rodon can’t get in quick enough for me, and whilst I’m by no means a fan of dier he must start ahead of sanchez alongside Toby and rodon and go 3 at the back. With hojberg in front of them who ive been impressed with and at last ndombele starting to look the real deal behind the front 3. Thats our strength now and he needs to play to that. 3 goals gifted by the axis of evil, and a special mention to sissoko who produced a moment of what can only be described as dog poo football in the first half where he attempted to bring a ball down on his thigh whilst wet spam did their social distance but and stayed 2m away. The talentless one promptly knocked it right into the shelf. Let’s see how many want to argue this point, but the man’s a French traffic cop. Anyone who passes the ball to him gets it back instantly as thats the limit of his abilities. He constantly has his arms out, and youd think he’d remember Madrid but there you go, and basically steals a living offering nothing in an attacking sense whilst simultaneously being one of the biggest vaginas defensively as well. Not only gifting a free kick but then making zero effort to win the ball for their first. Sanchez has gone back alarmingly and thats shocking defending. And then aurier cant stop giving stupid free kicks away leading to the third. People may point at bale, but do we really need to score 4 to win a game? He needs to see that if we can’t defend which certainly appears to be the case, then the best form of defence is attack and everyone in the league will be afraid of kane and son right now, and the quicker bale gets up to speed to join that the better

Agreed. Interesting to see team selection against LASK on
Thursday and Burnley on Monday.
I have seen enough in both Aurier and Sanchez to suggest they should be both offloaded.

Yes I was there, out of absolutely nothing. It’s definitely their cup final playing us!

Aurier just isn’t good enough. Why he’s still at the club is anyone’s guess. Either Levy holding out for too much or not being proactive enough to bring two right fullbacks in in one window.

Not sure Doherty is exactly a defensive colossus either, although probably a better balanced player than Aurier. I just don’t get all this sitting back stuff. Jose picked those players knowing all about them by now. So Jose has to accept criticism I’m afraid….

As all opponents would have behaved the same!

The sad thing doing it the Spursy way I could sense the inevitable equaliser was coming once the Spammers got it back to 3-2 in quick time perhaps not quite in such spectacular fashion but it was coming thanks once again to Aurier’s needless intervention!

Agree about our deficient defending but in fairness the celebration at the end was perfectly acceptable!!

Another Cup win for The Spammers, their celebration for the 3rd goal to get the draw was hilariously bad. Like our defending.

We know what to expect from Burnley, nothing we don’t know already.
Simple tactics hoof it up for Chrissy Wood!!

Prepared to put his body on the line Kane was superb!

Nice for once that our match was not overshadowed by VAR decisions!

Man Utd had Vidic

They like scoring crackers against Spurs. His name escapes me but I remember another one of their players scoring a thunderbolt at Wembley!

Agreed. Citeh had Vincent Kompany!

Also a defensive inquest held into the West Ham first goal!

*Last kick of game..

Fair point but Mings is better than Sanchez just saying.
2 of the West Ham goals arose from needless free kicks conceded by Sissy and Aurier respectively.
Final minute of injury time, last kick of the goal you just don’t concede a free kick and what did reckless Aurier do, concede a free kick in a dangerous area to Cresswell. Scandalous!

Van Dijk is probably the only one I can think of at the top level that can do a bit of both equally well.

Understandably he looked a little rusty. Doing the hard bit he fluffed his lines!

That’s true but defenders were a different breed then, not many are that ‘steely’ these days. Meaning, comfortable sitting deep and repelling attacks for long periods.

Also the way teams attack at the highest levels mean it’s almost impossible to sit back for very long or you get overcome eventually. Also, not having a crowd adds to the problem, no intimidating atmosphere to cope with for the away side when 3-0 down…

That’s true but defenders were a different breed then, not many are that ‘steely’ these days. Meaning, comfortable sitting deep and repelling attacks for long periods.

Also the way teams attack at the highest levels mean it’s almost impossible to sit back for very long or you get overcome eventually. Also, not having a crowd adds to the problem, no intimidating atmosphere to cope with for the away side when 3-0 down…

The Bale of old would have scored that one!!

I’d drop Sanchez and Aurier against Burnley and replace them with
Rodon and Doherty respectively.
Remember winning Chelsea titles under Jose revolved around the mental toughness steely resolve of his outstanding captain, John Terry.
We don’t have that yet.

Late to the show naturally disappointed, naturally gutted but philosophical about the result thats football!, Jubilation one moment, despair at the end.

I agree, it’s because the game has changed. Defenders are almost as comfortable on the ball as midfield players these days. The way they defend is different. You press teams into mistakes and defend differently rather than letting the opponent have the ball in front of your defenders.

This is why managers like Jose and Benitez don’t do as well, they can’t get the players to do it anymore. Times have changed.

Heard ex pros say that there is just a world wide shortage of top class defenders.City have spent a half a billion on defenders and are still wobbly.

First eighty minutes the team effort was top class, work rate was brilliant, the football was sensational, you know what came next. Mourinho doesn’t trust that defence but he can and will make the right changes, probably Skriniar in January. Maybe other recruits.

Next summer, more of the plodders will be removed. Annoying result today but we’re heading in the right direction. I’d rather be where Spurs are than where West Ham are, we’ll see how many worldies they score in the last minute to rescue a point in the rest of the season.

They aren’t used to sitting back. Not many defenders are these days, they used to think it was unusual for defenders to come out with the ball or go to the attacking player and win the ball early. Now it’s just the way everyone plays…

Well you were right in one sense.

If defenders can’t defend then what option have we got?? May as well just do what scousers do and outscore everyone because that says to me that sanchez and aurier aint good enough full stop. He needs to stop picking them, and im as guilty as everyone gir thinking we have a squad. The players that came on not including bale obviously did absolutely nothing in a game when they only had to do their jobs for 10 mins. Pathetic

Depressment.

We shouldn’t have to score 5 goals plus to win games.

Thought fitness looked shoddy from 65ish minutes.

Ffs

Thing is people are gonna blame bale or whatever. Bottom line is we are 3 up against them lot. 10 mins to go and cant hold out. Because we can’t defend. And the axis of evil strikes again. Sissoko aurier and sanchez are absolutely dreadful footballers. Totally to blame for the goals but jose picks a team thats not playing to our strengths. The wing backs are wing backs so play them like that. Sanchez out for rodon. Doherty in for that hand grenade. And stsrt bale not bergwin and bring him off after an hour not ask him to get to the pace of the game. On the plus hojberg and ndombele are looking decent. And as for the stunt they pulled at the brewers. Masturbators.

Hammer house of horror. Love it!

The terrible thing is, as soon as they scored I knew more were coming, seriously it’s lucky the game ended when it did.

It’ll take more than Rodon.

Tottenham Tottenham, no one can stop them……..Ha Ha Ha ………..kin ell.

I wish he hadn’t.

It’s all coming together at last. And Bale hasn’t even set foot on the pitch.