The College Dropout

Good play to get the ball

Isak encouraging Murphy. Crowd should do the same.

Absolutely delicious cross by Tino on his weaker foot btw.

JOE. WTF?

No press at all

Individual quality seems to be our route to a win here.

Schar has been so bad on the ball man. My word.

Glad Howe has made some early subs.

We’ve started awfully.

They received the money in 2001, after winning their 9th CL. the land was sold to to private companies. Madrid agreed to some government stuff to facilitate the sale but the sale was an open bidding. West Ham’s stadium deal is far more ‘suspect’.

So bad on the ball these days.

This is the biggest issue. We’ve looked decent. But they look more composed in possession.

Big moments in each box aside. He’s been good.

Wrong. - they won 8 CLs prior. - they money raised wiped the debts and helped fund the galacticos era when they won 1 CL - the very next summer. - they sold the land the training ground was on. The land was in the financial district of Madrid - the land was sold to private companies not ‘the government’

Crowd are so flat.

Minteh is rapid like. Honestly Minteh scoring felt inevitable after the foul.

Absolutely horrific that. Mateta’s a player on the rise too. Went up a level last season and continued this season.

Happy for him. My type of player. Could see he was a baller from his early clips.

Agreed - 7th is about right for us. But with 2 of the 6 teams above us out of it. The team 8th not likely to finish above us. Having 2 teams 9th or below in wages and squad cost finish above us would be a disappointment. Last year we finished 7th. Finished below 1 team with equal/less resources than us but above 1 with more. Fucking fair.

Strongest team possible based on fitness. Massive game. It’s tough. We are essentially pursuing a treble of sorts.

This was 25 years ago.

The being slow thing is being overplayed. I got pelters for saying he looked slow before he joined. He joined, looked slow but it didn't matter much. Now he's tired and out of form. And the slowness is used as a stick to beat him with. He needs a break. Don't know where/when he's going to get it.

Lad is tired.

There was 1-year Jordan Ayew scored 9 PL goals. Unbelievable.

I think it's switching things up via subs or team shape that he doesn't tend to do unless the match state is bad enough. Blocks he does and more tactical things I don't notice I assume.