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He's just said on the radio that he told the midfield to get closer to our defenders at half time. Half time being the point I'm not disputing. Did you not watch our lot after that first goal went in? Their desire to do anything at pace just wasn't there.
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Mate I've been watching his team for nearly three years now and can almost count the number of times we've taken a 2-0 lead at home on one hand. That is his gameplan, always has been and always will be. Take a lead then try and hold it. Sick of reading about how wrong I am and how he's actually telling them before the game to get 2, 3, 4. He's not. I've watched the team sit off after half time plenty, but after 15 minutes? His quotes are pretty damning. I think the team got complacent, wandering about when Huddlestone was in yards of space inside the box, MYM trying to dribble out of defence etc. Pardew's not very good and deserves a lot of stick for the second half's changes but our lot got cocky.
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Give over man.... he tracked back more than Debuchy did for that goal. Absolute bullshit. HBA's 'tracking' was pathetic. He jogged with his man until the 18 yard line, looked at him and then slowed down. I love the lad but he isn't immune from criticism, he fucked up badly for that goal. He also was looking straight at the bloke for the 1st and said and did nothing.
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Doesn't really sound like he told the players to sit off after the first goal, they seemingly took their foot off the gas and didn't go for it. He meddled too much in the second though, knacked our shape.
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HBA can do the basics of actually following his man. He doesn't have to tackle or anything, just actually be there, he simply didn't look arsed today.
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He was appalling today, it wasn't so much that he was poor but his attitude was rubbish. Did nothing to up the tempo of the game and his attempts to track his man for the 3rd were abysmal, he looked at his man then just let him saunter ahead.
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Too fucking slow to distribute.
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The only one to come out with any proper credit. He was excellent.
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Seething. Utterly pathetic performance. The arrogance on show when we went a goal up was unbelievable. We're a good side, but not that good. We should be going after teams when we go ahead, instead, we do the opposite. I'm not sure if it was the manager or the players but the desire to win just didn't seem there, proper small club mentality. Credit to Hull but we had them in those opening stages, we just didn't punish them. Pardew made some crap changes which didn't help in the second. I don't mind defeat but when it's in that manner, it's unforgivable.
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I'm a bit nervous about this now, it will be an interesting test. They have pace on the wings and will probably come with a strategy to counter, shutting space down then hitting the wide men on the break. We struggle against teams that do that and even with the team in the shape we played vs. Villa, I don't think we've got the ideal personnel to really punish them. It will most likely be a massive test for Cabaye at AM, I don't think he'll do so well there when space has been shut down.
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Klopp
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I'd be mightily surprised, considering he was interviewed after the game and there was no mention of an injury. He's also been in today's Journal iirc, again, nothing about being injured was mentioned.
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I've always thought Ben Arfa was a consistent player in terms of his performances, to be honest. He's had bad/quiet games when he's been unfit, like when he came back at the back end of last year and his return from his leg break, but not when he's been up to speed.
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Official: Yoan Gouffran signs new contract with Goztepe
Gallowgate Toon replied to Tooj's topic in Football
He was just over 1 in 2 in his last 18 months at Bordeaux. -
Remy doesn't strike me as a lone man type, certainly not in a team like ours. I think he's well suited to a wide forward role or second striker if he's playing in a two. He's eerily similar to Henry in many ways.
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I noticed that Krul was spraying the ball out wide more on the weekend, rather than booting it up the middle. That was nice to see.
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We'll be fine and contest Everton for 7th if we keep key players fit for long periods. We've left ourselves in a risky position we didn't need to be in though, literally 2 forward players of generally decent quality would have had us set up really well.
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he can't pass very well at all, but makes up for this in many other facets. It can be hit and miss at times, he did play a couple of great balls on Saturday though.
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He's mint. Not sure who it was that said he didn't have technical ability but they've been proven wrong over the last couple of weeks. He displayed some lovely bits of skill and control on Saturday.
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We played 4-2-3-1 on Saturday, Bimpy. We've really never played 4-3-3 with Pardew in charge, there's always been someone at the tip of a midfield triangle. 2 years ago it was Cabaye, last year Sissoko, Cabaye again on the weekend. Whoscored have the players' positional maps.
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He clearly wasn't quite there in terms of fitness, his passing was off but you could see the ideas he had (with Cisse in particular).
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I could see why the ref made the decision, but it was still a poor one. Koscielny stops when he hears the whistle though, if Atkinson hadn't blown, I think he'd have got there in time anyway.
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Interesting fixture, this. We really struggle against organised, defensive sides when we play at home but from the little I've seen of them, they don't strike me as that type of team. They like to get on the ball and look OK knocking it around but lack better players in the final third to make it count. The same team will start and I think we'll win 2-0. Personally, I'd start Marveaux ahead of Cabaye in the AM role for a game like this but that'll never happen.
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Tiote was fit yesterday.
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He's probably just lacking that bit of match fitness.