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afrodoc2:
What some people don’t realise is that not everybody has the gift of self-motivation. Martial and Shaw are prime examples.

Very correct. These kind of players needs to be reminded of things to do.

CrystalTiger:
Martial is having a very weird season..Making better contributions but scoring less..I think he's won at least 5 penalties this season though..

May Ole continue to dey whine us Oleout gang..GGMU..

Martial will be back. I always knew that, the key to him playing well will be to put his body in and be more aggressive and incisive.

That's why its always good to heavily criticise some players like Martial to rev him up. Constant praises and excuses will do them no good, i am sure he must have told himself that no one is ready to condone poor performances and laziness. Look at Pogba, he knows that any poor performance from him and he will be bombed by fans, he is playing very very well now.

Leyqute:
LooL. I don’t know how the other guy would watch the match and made that statement.

Tuanzebe gave the ball away dangerously in at least 2 occasions. And it’s not as if his attacking play is miles ahead of AWB’s. Make we look another place for solution abeg

AWB is far better than Tuenzebe in terms of attack sef. Tuenzebe performance last night was rubbish, he was disaster waiting to happen, he killed attack and slowed forward movements.

engrelvis:
Dnt know y ole is nt always featuring Tuanzebe.Saw his constant runs upfront yesterday. Things AWB dnt normally do.

AWB is far better than Tuanzebe even with his forward runs. Tuenzebe is very static and misplaced a lot if passes. He is only good in the middle either as CB or CDM.

afrodoc2:
I watched only the first half but that was a quietly dominant display. The advantages of playing a quick CB were also obvious. Ole has to chose between Maguire and Lindelof to be the partner of a quick CB.

How to solve our problem is very straight forward and easy, if we can find a realiable quick centre half and and all action CDM who is good on the ball, there is no way we are not going to challenge for the title. We can go further to said find an attacking RB to use against teams that sits back at home. The Defence of Maguire and Lindelof is very shaky and we should find a way of merging the Mctoms/Fred role into one, in order to play CDM-Pogba-Bruno in our Midfield.

Make I no lie,
this RB no fit Tuanzebe at all

Why is Bruno starting this hame for God sake. I prefer we win Leicester game more than this. I just hope Ole knows what he is doing

BlueMann:
And you're playing Leicester.

Lol. One thing must kill a man. We will still meet them one way or the other

rationalmind:
Maybe you're not as smart as you think

No wahala. We Move!
Next match. Chelsea vs Arsenal.
Any way it goes, I will be fine, its either Arsenal enter into deeper relegation troubles or Chelsea lose and continue sliding down the table. Either way I will be happy. Lol

Smellymouth:
They need ten bottles of Chelsea dry gin if they think lampard can outwit moyes.

Lampard beating moyes will be a miracle..

Them no know. Its an easy prediction.

Any smart punter should know that this game have West Ham win/draw written all over it

afrodoc2:
Chelshitters doing permutation and combination on how to avoid 11th place.

Lol.

Arsenal (A), Villa (H), City (A), Fuham(A), Leicester (A), Wolves(H),

By the time they are done with this fixture list ar January ending, na dem and their london Rival Arsenal de drag from bottom

macjireh:
athletico are arguably d 3rd best team in Spain and they are equivalent to Chelsea not spurs...would have given it to manure (post SAF era) but manure have been averaging 6th position for quite a while while Chelsea have averaged 3rd position more than d manu of post SAF

Man u has been averaging 6th position? In the past 3 season Man U finished 2nd, 6th, 3rd and are Currently 3rd with a game in hand. How is that an average of 6th

patrickmuf:
You're right on point, Leeds and Bielsa need to be more pragmatic if they're going to stay up which I think they will because not every team will be able to pick them apart like we did...

I think Leeds and Bielsa will do just enough to stay up. Even with their careless gong ho style, they still pick up wins and points here and there. They trashed Newcastle 5-3 just few days ago, they will gather enough wins like that to stay up. They suffered against us becuase they left vast amount of space against an AM like Bruno who is unforgiving and he tore them apart, only few EPL teams have such quality. Arsenal for eg are using Nketiah in that role.

Another thing is Sheffield United, Fulham and Wes Brom will not finish above them this season and erremmmm.. A.r..nal

afrodoc2:
I like McTominay but it was a match tailor made for him. If Pogba had played yesterday instead of McTominay it might have ended 10-5 cos they are the only midfielders we have that Yaya Toure bull dozing running ability from midfield. Pogba just has extra quality on the ball in addition.

Ole actually applied good tactics yesterday. McTom running ahead of Bruno into the box was not accidental. That tactic worked because the other midfielders push way ahead of Phillips, which leaves him isolated in wide open space against multiple runners whenever they lose the ball.

Correct Ole got his taxtics well, you mentioned before the game that Phillips needs to be kept silent and as if ole was listening and stiffled him. Bielsa removed him later and started attacking from the flanks which actually worked well for them, the got glorious chances.

I was expecting ole to bring in Pogba when he pulled out Bruno, he would have pulled them apart.

patrickmuf:
I am always confident when I see him in our lineup...I like the way he and Fred took turns to join the attack yesterday...

But my God. What happened to Fred? Is it me or he has been very tidy with the ball this few days, and his incisive passes are top notch. Long may this continue.
I dont want to be carried away, because teams like Leeds can make you look like prime barca.

And we were told that Mctoms is a championship quality sideway passer who is not good enough.

Even as a defensive midfielder, The guy have been scoring belters once in a while. Versus Arsenal and City last season for eg.

I understand that Ole is using James to spread out games in this festive period, but God, he has been very average

Is it Leeds or this our Defence is very shaky oo

Brunooòoooooooooooooooo!! and I captained him. Lol 1 assist 1 goal so far

Mctoms on the double

afrodoc2:
We have to press Phillips and prevent him from dictating play.

Hence Ole started with McFred

handelex:
Forget pace shaa, Dan James no get sense. We no need waste chances today as our defense no fit keep clean sheet. Our forwards better bring their scoring boots today oo.

James will surprise you today

Karleb:
Salah admitted he was disappointed he wasn't given the arm band in the last game.

He also admitted he is open to opportunities in spain.


Maybe Klopp trying to show him who's boss.

Klopp should be careful oo, Mane is struggling with goals and assists now, Jota is injury prone. Sallah will be key if he want to win the league this season

Leyqute:
I missed a bullet there. Almost bought him as replacement for KdB.

I have Kdb, Bruno kane and Sallah in my team. I just bought cheap in other positions i have been trying to add Son since but money no reach. Lol

afrodoc2:
You have made good points however I think it is still too early to make a pronouncement on whether Reyna is better than Sancho.

He has a relatively average season so far. We will see if it’s just a brief loss in form or if he goes back to his productive best.

We should be focusing on CDM and CB in order to improve the squad in crucial areas. I personally think the Sancho deal is a thing of yday. We should move on and buy strategically.

Yes, Correct.

Although I think Ole still feels that Maguire and Lindelof are good enough. So we need to get a very combative CDM who is goodon the ball so that Pogba or any other CDM we have will be a constant and beuno fully as an AM, we still find Bruno droping deep in matches when he is supposed to be probing defences at the final third. The McFred partnership, while they are hardworking, is limiting us attackwise especially in home matches

Salah no start. My FPL ooo, may Liverpool lose today for this foolish behaviour from Klopp

timay:
@Bolded, you're right. That is why Dortmund form got worse immediately Haland got injured.

Lol. E be like say wey never know that guy called Halaand, the guy na tank. If you give me that guy for 120-150m i will bite off your hand and run. The boy is a tank. Make Pep no lay his hand on that boy oo, if we cant get him, he should go to another league.

DeadPresidents:
Afrodoc2, are you sure Sancho subconsciously downing tools is the valid explanation for his less-than-stellar start to the season or the fact that the ultra-attacking Achraf Hakimi was replaced by old man Meunier?

Lol. This is the same thing Chelsea fans are facing now. They have exhausted their excuse on the 2 German shepherds they bought in the summer. Hakimi and Guerrero were the attacking outlet of Dortmund, Muenier could'nt repeat that again, and teams have sussed them out. They now win match with the magic of Halaand and that young guy Reyna, with Reus. Except Dortmund is really dominating teams totally Sancho will be no where to be found. That's why he struggles in England

patrickmuf:
No be small argument for here...I said it at that time that Dortmund will struggle to sell Sancho for anything close to what we offered.

Definitely, During Transfer window is the time to be very vigilant, fans just jump around any player the press throw out and begin to hype them. The best signings are the silent signibg that goes under the rader. Look at Jota at Liverpool, look at how Nuno goot Neto and Podence silently no noise, look at Bissouma at Brighton, look at Anguissa at Fulham.

Some people were saying that Madrid, Barca and PSG will bring 150m for him. Lol. That na jock of the century

afrodoc2:
I supported Woodward pulling out from the deal after Dortmund refused to budge from their ridiculous demands however we have to be fiar in our assessment.

Firstly, how 4 months of poor form totally invalidates 2yrs of great form is what i don't understand. So you mean this 4 months Sancho is the real Sancho and the one of the last 2 years, and the youth teams of Man City and England is the fake one?

Secondly although i rate Reyna highly he has 3 goals and 5 assists in the league and UCL while Sancho has 2 goals and 5 assists. You are making it sound like there is a huge gap between them in terms of output when it is actually close.

Also Sancho's overall whoscored ratings are still quite good in the league and in the UCL and are as good as those of Reyna and Gnabry.

Lastly, it is clear that the whole transfer debacle unsettled him and his mind is not at Dortmund again and he has downed tools even if it is subconsciously.

The fact that he wasn't worth that huge fee that Dortmund were demanding should not make us completely disregard the facts. He is not at his best but let's not make it like he is flopping.

But doc i am not saying that Sancho is a shi.t player, my point is he is overated. If he is coming for 60m, that will be a perfect deal as he will clearly improve our forward line. Our issue is the 120m price tag, and the fact that some are happing on Ed to just pay it up, that by next summer, clubs will be lining up with 150m+ for a transfer war, you were among the few proponent of signing sancho who actually understood our point then and pointed out that tge price tag was yoo high, some were even saying that its cheap for a " generational" talent. Imagine ordinary a transfer saga unsettled him, imagine how a 120m price tag (upfront) will do to his confidence is he have the Martialesque type of season start. He might not recover from it. Maguire is not as bad as people portray him to be but that £80m will continue to be his albatross unless he have a legendary career from now. Maguire to me is more psychologically stronger than Sancho, Sancho's confidence will definitely be in tatters added that he is now in Man Utd and English.

Secondly, There was no where I said his current form invalidates his previous form, even in the middle of his hot streak, i maintained that he is not as good as people think he is, I said same thing for Havertz of Chelsea, they thought i was trolling.
Sancho is a good player but not the 2nd best Young Forward after Mbappe, he is not better than Rashford, Reyna, Halaand, Felix, Greenwood and Fati.
His numbers are good but he drops very poor performances every now and then, most of his goals comes against poor oppositions and he requires his team to be on top to perform, he doesn't take games at the scruff of the neck single handedly like the names i mentioned above. I have watched him very closely both in Dortmund and England.
Personally I think Reyna is better than him, not basing it on stats alone, Reyna pose bigger problems to defenders and creates far more better chances than Sancho and he is younger. 2 of Sancho's goals were confidence boosting penalties.

Even the Rashford who was struggling with injuries for half of last season and fans were abusing last season was playing similar position with Sancho. Sancho got 20g-20A. Rashford got 22g-12A in the same number of matches. One was playing in an ultra attacking team. But we were meant to believe he is better than Rashford when even at their national team, Rashy was ahead of him.

Sancho is a good player no doubt, but fans should stop overhyping him, so that Ed will price him very well and get the right price not 120m that Dortmund are surely regretting now. I dont have anything against him, i will want him in our team, but we fans need to calm down with our hyping. Imagine if na we go buy Havertz for 100m.