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eph12:
Are the players better than what's being offered now?

Goals conceded
Aston villa - 13
Southampton, west ham, wolves - 19
Manchester United - 23

Do those teams that have conceded less have better defenders than us?

Once again it’s a mixture. The fact is they have conceded less goals than us so they are defending better than we are. You cannot attribute it to a single thing.

eph12:
So its not like those players are not good enough, but they are good and require some coaching to fit together as a team and defend properly?

It’s 50/50. Those defenders aren’t as good as most of us think and the coaching isn’t doing enough to get them defending well.

MRTA7:
Someone said Bundesliga packaged Lingard and Dan James for Chelsea and charged them 150m.

Hmmmm.

Leyqute:
That was his second season. His first season he garnered sixty-something points and ended 6th.

Yes his 2nd season was his last full season. I'm assuming you're agreeing.

Leyqute:
I’m not even about title or no title. I just want us to gather 80 points and above. That will be a marked improvement from the last 3 seasons or so.

I think Jose got 81 points in his last full season.

You should not always have to score 2+ goals to win matches or get a result to be a title challenging team. Defence is simply not good enough.

Again its defence that will win you titles.

Before Liverpool got Alison and VVD. They played exactly the same way they were playing now. But finished 4th and below. If we don't sort out our defence we will keep fighting for 4th place.

23 goals conceded in 14 games is disgusting.

KingAlabi:
United use zonal marking
Not man marking

It looks like a mix of both zonal and man marking.

afrodoc2:
It is good enough but our manager is suspect. The only reason many people are not confident we would mount a challenge is our manager. The squad itself is the best we have had in close to a decade.

Now i am not saying we are going to win or indeed that we must win. However we should be able to push on and at least give the eventual winners a fight for their money.

I think our squad on a whole is good but I still think it lacks balance and that's where it can fall short as a title challenger.

They say defense wins titles but can you honestly say you're confident in our defence keeping cleansheets?
We still dont have a proper solution for the right side of the team.
And then of course you have Ole who is like his team, inconsistent. Has some great results with some woeful ones.

The main reason I see us in a title challenge is because no one else is that good, apart from Liverpool.

Anyone feeling sorry for Arsenal yet? No? Me neither.

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Trevor012:
Where you expecting a clean sheet or what?

Not necessarily today. This season our defence has not been good enough. We concede chances and goals too easily.

That was a really entertaining match. Ole did really well today. I was still not happy to see Dan James but he was ok and got a goal. Leeds really came to play as they always do. We were so clinical today and really put them to the sword. Big 3 points.



P.S - I don't like our defence.

Uniquisite:
Nothing!
Nothing go happen

Let us lose tomorrow, heaven will fall. Na then those legend pundit go dey yarn rubbish. Pogba, Matic, Degea, Coach go trend on twitter 1 week nonstop. Analysis on how we will be 1st in table if we Sign Sancho will begin.

Them no dey analyse Arsenal team ni?

To be fair no one really cares about Arsenal anymore.

afrodoc2:
My sarcasm must have been real subtle to have chopped even a chairman like you.

smh. Na old age cause am.

afrodoc2:
Very true. His form improved after he stopped all his philanthropic work. This world na every man for himself. Selfishness pays.

But he hasnt stopped. If anything he has gone up another gear on it in the last month or so.

olabode89:
Matic actually had a good game and he kept us ticking.

He did. I meant more when we're not on the ball.

I think our need for a DM might be the most pressing need right now.

McGoldrick is abusing Lindelof smh.

Been watching the first half of Barca v Real Sociedad. Barca are 2-1 but its a close game. Sociedad have ballers. They will be a big problem.

Someone said Bundesliga packaged Lingard and Dan James for Chelsea and charged them 150m.

Leyqute:
It was the winning formulae for the run in last season, minus Lindelof in midfield.

THat is a no-no.



That's RB, not WB.



Yeah

AWB will probably be following Lindelof like he was against RBL like he wants to hold hands and neglect the right hand side.

Good to see we're playing on Thursday this week so we can start getting used to it for Feb.

Apparently Grealish will fit in well with Martial and Greenwood's scumbagery.

https://twitter.com/LoaZzy/status/1337036049327984642?s=20

This is our level. Hopefully we can make the Europa league quarterfinals.

patrickmuf:
I didn't see the game, how well did they play?

Well despite their injuries, the style of play hasn't changed one bit. They play exactly like all would when full strength. Obviously with varying quality but even with that others are stepping up. To me this is showing Klopp's work.

Liverpool are on another level.

Kane wants to kill someone with that finish. Smh

Damn Son.

Important 3 points.

Seems without Bruno we don't even play football. We play cricket.

nitrogen:
Haha, which kind wahala be this?

Please leave me o, let me start preparing for tomorrow’s game. We are taking all 3 points tomorrow.

Preparation for Young man like me na to take hypertension coping medicine before kick off. smh.

RBL have Bayern Munich this weekend. Hopefully there's some wear and tear from that. I don't trust us to get a result against RBL at all.

nitrogen:
I dont think you understand my point. There is no assumption here, I am comparing Moyes’ output to OGS’s in terms of points.

Also, this thing is not rocket science, compare a year when a league leader amassed 81 points and the club that comes 4th (say Arsenal) gets 70 points, and another year where a leader got 100 points and the same club, this time in 3rd position got 66 points, what does that tell you about Arsenal fc? Is that progress?

I don’t know why you are not getting it sha. Anyway, whatever rocks your boat!

Moyes didnt get 64 points at Man utd. He was sacked with 4 games left to the end of the season. We got another 7 points after he was sacked so Moyes had 57 points on the board when he was sacked at man utd.