Men's Soccer (Football) Thread Soccer • Page 566

When was someone going to tell me Sevilla have a player on their books called Gerard Peque? Regen of the year.

 

United fans who can’t handle the Amorim growing pains are so weak, appreciate the size of the task at hand and show some patience while he’s clearly building something here.

 

Uh oh, Liverpool rampant.

 

Dragusin is terrible

 

Spurs still have 3rd highest GD in the league.

 

Get to watch this two more times over the next month lol

 

I think this is our first league loss by more than a goal

 

Delicious square pass from Szoboszlai on the fifth. Those get misplaced all the time.

 

I know we’re getting beat down. And criticism will come from it. But these commentators haven’t mentioned our injury dilemma once. Just bashing from the start. It’s every match. Majority of the goals we’ve given up over the last few weeks would not happen with our starting backline and keeper.

 

I heard them say Spurs have 11 missing while LIV have 2 missing pretty recently

 

I must’ve missed it lol not hard to do when it’s drowned by their unrelenting hatred of Ange

 

Maybe watch it on mute or something

 

Sorry guys. I’ll stop whining lol

 

What a strange game this is

 

No all of nbc’s commentary teams except for a couple suck lol, I turn em down

 

This match is such a delight after so many ho-hum ones earlier. Saving the weekend for me.

 

Anyone gamble against Salah(C) this week? Game must be a horror movie if so

 

Someone in a H2H league I'm in went against Salah...but they went for Isak instead lol

 

Solid week for me by bringing in Rogers, captaining Salah, and Murillo/Robinson/Kerkez in the back line

 

Damn. I considered Saka for quite a while, glad I didn't pull the trigger on that haha.

 

I watch a decent amount of games on mute tbf. Particularly if I don’t massively care about the teams involved or I start to find the commentators really annoying. I just stick on some music and then see what the pundits say during HT/FT.

 

I’m critical of Ange at times but my god the media narrative around how he must change his tactics is the most insufferable shit.

 

Spurs have a curious concept of defending, don't they...

 

In fairness, and I like laughing at Spurs even more than most, they were playing a very makeshift backline against the best attack in the league.

 

Most coaches get slandered as stubborn during a difficult run, and the ones who don't, who keep changing gameplans, get slandered for not having a cohesive idea (Emery at Arsenal). It's usually reactionary criticism, even when there is truth to it.

All of them have a particular feel for the game and usually when they turn away from that it's ominous long term. It's what ultimately did for Rodgers at Liverpool, when he was frequently thought of as too attacking but came unstuck much more often when he tried to play the more tactical 'control space' game (our poor European record under him was littered with games where we sat off and had less possession, a style he just didn't have the feel for).

I do think Spurs could be more pragmatic given their injuries — drop the offside line ten yards, play short pass build-ups more in the wide areas and be willing to reset with a long ball — but even with that you can end up making the same mistakes they made on the 4th and particularly 5th and 6th goals when they forced it long, lost it, and then found themselves split in two with five players out of the game.