Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [19 - 21st October 2013]
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against pretty poor opposition it must be said.
ball zipping around like mad on this pitch.
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Slow Spurs
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IIRC the stat was something silly like Defoe only had 4 touches of the ball till Soldado was subbed on then together they had 15 touches, or 15 each afterwards. No one gave Defoe the ball till the 70th minute basically.
If Defoe had 50 touches and was woeful that is one thing, but when it's less than 10 times(that would include miscontrolled touches and the like) you can fairly confidently say the problem was the midfield, not the guy who the midfield failed to find all game.
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Lol boring play from Spurs, its basically the 4 defenders passing it to each other. Push up already.
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Just goes to show how much of a one man team spurs were, they look shocking
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Why are they doing what most other teams don't, as you say flat back four so sig/Townsend aren't getting forward and they are seemingly insisting on knocking it long to an isolated striker before support streams forward.
Most teams these days(and frankly most/all the best ones) the fullbacks push on to midfield, the wingers push forwards beyond hte half way line, it gives you so many more options for going forward, knock it down either wing and you have fullback/winger to interplay and you have a striker upfront ready to get on the end of a cross and the opposite winger to get in to support the striker, come far post for a cross.
Why stick Soldado so far upfront on his own and Sig/Townsend stay SO deep, it's retarded.
EDIT:- just then before the ball ended up needing a blasted clearance by Loris, Soldado was in the middle, Townsend was bang on the right wing when the guy with the ball was almost at left back. Townsend should be coming way way closer to Soldado when the ball is down the left wing, you can't have any interplay when you guys up front are standing 40 yards apart.....
Most teams these days(and frankly most/all the best ones) the fullbacks push on to midfield, the wingers push forwards beyond hte half way line, it gives you so many more options for going forward, knock it down either wing and you have fullback/winger to interplay and you have a striker upfront ready to get on the end of a cross and the opposite winger to get in to support the striker, come far post for a cross.
Why stick Soldado so far upfront on his own and Sig/Townsend stay SO deep, it's retarded.
EDIT:- just then before the ball ended up needing a blasted clearance by Loris, Soldado was in the middle, Townsend was bang on the right wing when the guy with the ball was almost at left back. Townsend should be coming way way closer to Soldado when the ball is down the left wing, you can't have any interplay when you guys up front are standing 40 yards apart.....
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The movement is completely horrendous. They aren't making any effort to take a position compared to who has the balls, not making angles to pass, not moving, standing still, everyone upfront miles apart from each other and pretty static. Townsend there passed to Soldado because there was no one within 20 yards of him and no one trying to get within 20 yards of him.
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Definitely lost the entertainment factor without Bale 
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Definitely lost the entertainment factor without Bale
And the spark, look no more than a mid table team over the last few games, I would be gutted after spending over £100m
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Definitely lost the entertainment factor without Bale
We've completely changed the way we play too
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