Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Scriptures Prophesied the Messiah Plays 3-4-3
BobbyBooshay
Arnold Jackson
Goal of the season
Trajan
Veteran
Benitez got the perfect cover. If he flops it's still Ashley's fault
Trajan
Veteran
Just rewatched the highlights
It's like Ozil just said fukk it and went rogue
Some of the stuff he was doing was outrageous ...zero fukks given
It's like Ozil just said fukk it and went rogue
Some of the stuff he was doing was outrageous ...zero fukks given
it is not a cover, it's the truth.
look at newcastle's track record under ashley - flopping is inevitable.
BobbyBooshay
Arnold Jackson
Either way 2pts is terrible
Even Cardiff have won a game and im sure they havent invested more than Newcastle have this season.
He even ssid he was okay with Mitrovic going and getting Rondon lol
Ashley aint in clear, but no way Rafa should be on 2pts thats abysmal
steadyrighteous
Veteran
On the surface I’d agree, but when Mykhi was on the “right” he was never really there. Bellerin had the right side to himself, Mykhi kept drifting inwards and he was basically crowding out Ozil. That’s why at times in the first half Ozil dropped back and was standing right next to Xhaka, ostensibly turning what was supposed to be a 4231 into a 433. The best example of this is Ozil’s goal, which he started from deep and finished like a #8, not a #10. Kind of a Lampard type goal. Another example of this is Leicester’s goal. Chilwell, their left back, bombed on and you’d expect he would be bombing past our right winger, but the guy he passed before taking out Bellerin was Laca, not Mykhi, who should have been there.
When Xhaka went to left back and Iwobi went right Xhaka didn’t bomb forward like a wing back and Auba and Iwobi BOTH kept the width on both side, giving Ozil complete #10 freedom. That’s when he truly started bossing the game.
Maybe formation change isn’t the right language, but the 1st half and 2nd half weren’t simply “bad half” and then “good half”, it was two different types of play made possible by tweaking who played where and how they played it.
I agree with all of that. Mkhi was awful today. Xhaka played like an old school left back and it worked pretty well.
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
Don't forget the predictably of them as well.
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
OZIL 
OfTheCross
Veteran
We byke Arsenal brehs!
This shyt better end in a cup.
This shyt better end in a cup.
As a pure shot stopper he is probably top 10-15. As an actual keeper and everything that goes with it outside of making saves, he may not even be top 100. May sound like hyperbole, but he is phucking awful outside of using his reflexes.
The punching of crosses is how a lot of the Euro goalies are taught, it's been that way for as long as I can remember
Kids 19 It was embarrassing at times how TH14, Vierra et al would lose to teams like Auxerre or eastern european backwater teams, Wenger was very limited when you really think about it
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
He's played nearly 150 career games, this is his 4th season as a starter in Serie A and there has been zero improvement, in the other aspects of being a keeper. He is getting top tier money at 14m euros gross per season and performing like a player who pays £14 subs to play for his local pub team on a Sunday morning.
He makes Cech look like Messi on the ball and acts like a Vampire when a cross comes in.