themanupstairs

Thinking about how utterly farcical everything at NUFC seems to be, Alan Shearer's "let's move on, come on" comment at the end of his MOTD analysis sums it up perfectly. So fucking embarrassing.

http://i.imgur.com/OX5t2X7.png

Still think it was us dude? 

I had surgery on Tuesday and was sat in the pub watching this today with my Liverpool supporter mates. Nearly ripped my stitches open when Firmino scored. Pardew walking off heart-broken has made my week.

The only thing more disgraceful than Sissoko's performance was the decision to bring Aarons on in his place in a straight swap.

72 with Firminoh to play. Bellerin on the bench ffs.

What in the fuck was this braindead coward doing for the first goal?

That was the most blatant refusal to do one's job I've ever seen from professional footballer

Shocking execution of a perfectly good one on one situation when through on goal, and shocking support for Wijnaldum in that second half counter attack. And that "cross" in the first half

Despite all the overall shitness and negativity surrounding NUFC at this time, I can't help but start to like this dude. Seems a real leader out on the pitch, and is starting to make his presence felt at the back.

Liverpool, mackems and Spurs in 2010. I'd say first two are still in there, but I don't hate Spurs as much now, in fact I have a growing respect for Pochettino and their squad. Probably Palace for obvious reasons.

Doumbia was god-awful. We're going down.

 

never felt shock like this before

Chin up mate. We stick together no matter what.

Doumbia was god-awful. We're going down.

Fabregas stepped on his ankle though no?

He did, so Mitro couldn't move his leg as his foot was stuck underneath Fabregas' boot, and jarred the knee.

If anything, Cisse's all round play had been better recently before his injury. Showed some decent link-up and hold-up play. Not sure how he would work with Mitrovic, as I get the feeling they'd both be making similar runs and occupying the same spaces. If we can get those two to complement each other, we'd stay up quite easily IMO.

'appy 'arry ffs. You've got to laugh

There's probably over-coaching going on tbh. To the point where it's detrimental to morale, or just too much information to absorb.

f***'s sake at first glance the proximity of this thread to the word "sacked" in the nonce thread title has fooled me twice now.

http://blog.betbright.com/football/alan-pardew-boom-and-bust/

That is superbly written and fucking spot on.

Problem is we needed to sign some protection for the back 4 first of all. Tiote and Shelvey barely offer more than Anita and Colback for that.

Tiote, Saivet & Shelvey as a midfield 3 might work in away games? Mitrovic, Perez, Doumbia/Sissoko/Townsend up top.

This. An orthodox 433 seems like the way to go away from home. Beef up the middle of the park, and have Sissoko and Townsend help out the fullbacks when needed. Shelvey can play a bit more advanced with 2 sitting behind him. It's only slightly different to what we're currently doing with Wijnaldum in the hole supporting Mitrovic, but at least Shelvey can spot the killer pass whereas Wijnaldum doesn't seem to create much from those areas.

We don't really need proper width since we can't cross for shit.

We are too naiive away from home. Trying to pass it too much playing high line. Again, very self-destructive with Willian, Pedro and Costa running behind. Just stick 2 banks of 4 and keep it tight, frustrate the opposition. Now when we lose the ball we are so open its ridicilous.

This does my head in a lot more than our shit defending. We all know our defenders aren't very good, and i'm sure the midfielders and forwards know that too. So to continuously lose the ball unnecessarily in midfield is extremely irritating, and in matches like last night, is what leads to us crumbling rather than the bad defending itself.

As luxury as a luxury player can get.

Personally I would have hooked him at HT, put Colback LB, and pushed Aarons to play on the left with Townsend switching to the right. He really can't keep getting away with miserable performances. He's the only player we have who is almost certain to be at the Euros this summer, and he simply HAS to feel that his place in that french squad is under threat, otherwise he'll just not perform. Awful attitude.

On this evidence it's quite conclusive that it isn't the formation or line-up at away games that's the problem, but the mentality and possibly the match preparation. Once the match has started, he clearly has no idea how to change it. A top manager would have spotted the amount of space the likes of Willian and Fabregas were getting in the middle and countered it immediately after going 2 goals behind in such a short space of time.

I didnt get the Doumbia thing. If you're gonna make that sub, why do it halfway through the half? I mean make your mind up. You either go defensive with Colback & Lascelles, or have a go with Doumbia. 4-0 was the turning point for him to try a striker? Makes no sense.

It was clearly just to give him a run out and avoid any risks to Mitro's knee.

Switched off after their 5th so haven't seen his goal but I thought he was our best player

 

If you were to imagine a goal by him, that was it. Pretty good in fairness.

That's a very accurate description.