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nitrogen:
ETH is not who we think he is. Maybe with time, he will get there, but he is shitty right now. We are known for nothing except counterattacks that happen sometimes when Bruno is on the pitch. The players are lazy, the ones that are not are just workaholics with no sense.

We all attacked previous managers for not telling the players to do the basic/simple things, but we want to exonerate ETH. No way!

Jokerman:
🚨🇳🇱 Ten Hag: “Of course when you’re 2-0 up you are a little bit disappointed when you draw. It’s obvious. We had the chances for 3-1, but after this week 2-2 is a good draw.” #MUFC

Jokerman:
🚨🇳🇱 Ten Hag: “Of course when you’re 2-0 up you are a little bit disappointed when you draw. It’s obvious. We had the chances for 3-1, but after this week 2-2 is a good draw.” #MUFC

Borntosmoke:
Debruyne == Messi. The boy too dey ball. Any mumu wey compare aam with fernades. I go use blow commot the person mouth

Jokerman:
What about the player ETH bought?

patrickmuf:
My gross is that EtH lacks in-game management skills. He reads the game poorly and makes questionable decisions. Why did he take Wan-Bissaka off? What did Fred offer us? Why Martial?

They was a time Martial held onto the ball close to the centre circle until he was finally dispossessed even when he had teammates around calling for the pass. Pep will have a go at him in that scenario same with Pep but EtH will rather be writing what I don't know.

A coach should do well to motivate his players from the touch line. At 1 vs 2 it was obvious they were going to equalize, it was coming and I was screaming over here.

Jokerman:
Weghorst is a very good striker, he needs time to adapt ....hope Erik keeps him

patrickmuf:
We saw Aston Villa battling relegation with Gerard as a coach and now the same Aston has Europe in their sight.

Our midfielders are better than those of Brighton but as a unit, they function better and that is down to coaching because there's no way you'll tell me Caicedo is better than Casemiro neither is Gross better than Erikson nor Mac Allister better than Bruno. Our midfield today should have controlled the game against Skipp and Hojberg.

Leyqute:
We’ll probably win them. Their last 2 matches have been subpar. They didn’t win convincingly.

But then, anything can happen.

Oasis007:


We will be fine next season. Pray Qatari take over cos that's the major problem we should deal with now.

You can't expect EtH to perform more than he has done this season so far with players like Maguire, Fred and co.

patrickmuf:
Can you compare that to United?

Can you compare that to Maguire, Sancho, Pogba, Lukaku, and Antony?

If Antony performs like a 100m player, do you know where we will be as a team? Check Maguire, check Sancho, check Martial, even Casemiro is beginning to frustrate me and I will not hesitate to call him out for his poor performances.

All the City players you mentioned have been integral to the advancement of the City course over the years.

Blake755:
Rest abeg u no like person be u no like am
One had a goal machine in the person of haaland
The other had a foolish 9

patrickmuf:
We saw Aston Villa battling relegation with Gerard as a coach and now the same Aston has Europe in their sight.

Our midfielders are better than those of Brighton but as a unit, they function better and that is down to coaching because there's no way you'll tell me Caicedo is better than Casemiro neither is Gross better than Erikson nor Mac Allister better than Bruno. Our midfield today should have controlled the game against Skipp and Hojberg.

Leyqute:
Every player ks affected by fatigue and no one can play 3 games in 8 days at high intensity.

We need a good squad, not a good starting XI.

If we had Martinez available and L. Shaw at LB, we wouldn't have dropped points today.

afrodoc2:
None of our 3 midfielders can progress the ball through midfield with runs. Casemiro and Eriksen don't have the legs and Bruno does it mainly in the open field on the counter. He doesn't have the technique to consistently dribble through a set midfield. Fred and McTom that can do it with pace (not technique) are horrendous in so many other things.

So what we have are midfielders that have no solution once the passing lanes are blocked unlike Caicedo, McAllister, Bernardo Silva, Partey, Gundogan etc. that can break a press or even settled midfield by running with the ball.

afrodoc2:
On paper our midfield should be better than Brighton's and i agree that we should be performing better than what we are seeing, but you also have to consider the actual characteristics of the players.

Only Bruno out of our 3 midfielders can press in a manner approaching that of his Brighton counterpart. Both Case and Eriksen at this stage in their careers can never press the way Caicedo and the other Brighton midfielders do.

None of our 3 midfielders can progress the ball through midfield with runs. Casemiro and Eriksen don't have the legs and Bruno does it mainly in the open field on the counter. He doesn't have the technique to consistently dribble through a set midfield. Fred and McTom that can do it with pace (not technique) are horrendous in so many other things.

So what we have are midfielders that have no solution once the passing lanes are blocked unlike Caicedo, McAllister, Bernardo Silva, Partey, Gundogan etc. that can break a press or even settled midfield by running with the ball.

We desperately need a proper no8 who can send Eriksen to the bench and enable us to offload McTom and/or Fred finally.

For this specific game however i think it was more because our players didn't have the gas tank to step up to Spurs partially because of our 120 mins game a few days earlier. ETH still struggles with his substitutions though.

eph12:
I'm afraid we will continue to struggle unless we can get a forward and midfield line up that can play with high intensity for 90 minutes. Everyone presses as a unit and show up for passes, not what most of our players are currently offering

patrickmuf:
You have made very good points but on the whole, it points to a lack of proper game management from the coaches. They should have locked up shop in the second half rather than sit and watch Spurs continually play through us.

Another thing I have noticed is that our players do not take up the right positions in games and that makes it practically impossible for us to retain the ball. You watch City other top teams and it is different, the player on the ball almost always has like 2-3 passing options around him that's because they move into space to receive the ball but our players hardly do that save for a few. You'll see your teammate being closed down but instead of running into space to receive the ball they hide behind the opponents.

The lack of movement and intensity characterized our play under Ole and we still haven't showed considerable progress at this stage.

Borntosmoke:
See this one . See your stat self. I don't know how you go watch debruyne and fernades and conclude that fernades is better than debruyne. How is halaand and eriksen still having the same number of assist as Bruno this season. Na sentiment some of unaa dey used watch ball. Na you suppose rest.

Borntosmoke:
See this one . See your stat self. I don't know how you go watch debruyne and fernades and conclude that fernades is better than debruyne. How is halaand and eriksen still having the same number of assist as Bruno this season. Na sentiment some of unaa dey used watch ball. Na you suppose rest.

Borntosmoke:
See this one . See your stat self. I don't know how you go watch debruyne and fernades and conclude that fernades is better than debruyne. How is halaand and eriksen still having the same number of assist as Bruno this season. Na sentiment some of unaa dey used watch ball. Na you suppose rest.

eph12:
When this our club is involved, every other clubs suddenly look like top teams in their prime

LostMyZeal:
Even if fatigue no dey, this team no fit control games. They only manage to do that against lower teams. All the games we played with the top 6, how many did we win convincingly?

Once we jam any team that's well organized, we resort to setting counter traps.

Like you said, we need quality players. ETH must be ruthless, if not...

KingTom:
Leave Legbegbe, as if it wasn't this same Shitty Tottenham that others were beating like agege thieves