Geordie Ahmed

2 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

Doku again

Actually, turns out it was Akanji, Doku with the assist though

Just now, Big Geordie said:

Man City 3 Bournemouth 0

 

Missed the scorer (our lass talking!)

Doku again

If City don't ease up this could be 10

Bournemouth going to get an absolute pasting

2 hours ago, Super Duper Branko Strupar said:

I find it hard to even imagine what it is Man Utd need in a manager. I'm guessing the likes of McClaren being involved points to a philosophy of continuation of culture from the higher ups? Cant imagine it was Ten Hag's decision to have McClaren there, might be wrong. They need an absolute clear out of staff and a whole new one if I'm right about feeling like there's instruction from above to hire X or Y. I just get the impression there's always been rot in there somewhere since Fergie left and they've just been patching things up.

 

 

 

Ten Hag was the one who brought McClaren in, they have previous together as Ten Hag was his assistant at Twente over a decade ago

Also when Ten Hag was appointed it seems like it was done on the basis of him being given control, which no top or high performing club really gives to managers/coaches nowadays

They lack a proper football structure, at the moment it's Ten Hag wanting a player (usually someone he's worked with before) and then the money men go and negotiate a shite deal

They need a Dan Ashworth equivalent and until they get one they'll continue to be an absolute mess

22 hours ago, andycap said:

Whens he rumoured to be back? January. 

At the time of the injury 3 months was mentioned and then new year was referenced, so assuming that initial timescale is accurate we might see him end of December 

17 hours ago, Stifler said:

He’s the type of manager who I think will do daft things that won’t make sense, thinking it will be a shocking new system, only for them to get bounced, and he’ll keep doing until he gets sacked.

 

There is no way this ends well for him now, the fans have turned, the players have turned, and even himself has turned. He could have given himself breathing space tonight by playing a full strength squad and giving us a game and likely winning it. He was stupid enough to actually think his 2nd string could match our 2nd string, many of whom are players who are trying to get into the squad.

Despite the changes on paper he named a side strong enough to beat us

The issue and ultimately what will probably get him the sack is that his team looks badly coached bereft of ideas and confidence, whereas despite us playing a weaker side we played with confidence and a clear plan

2 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

 

Who is that player though? I really like the look of Ferguson but he'd cost an absolute fortune. We need to get lucky and discover some 17 year old nobody has heard of yet.

We are being linked with Marcos Leonardo from Santos

Though, based on our record of being linked with South American players he'll end up at Chelsea

3 minutes ago, Menace said:

18 years old btw.

19, not that it really changes your point

Some talent and shows what a mess Chelsea are that they had to sell him to balance the books 

7 hours ago, Superior Acuña said:

Would think if we do get through, we'd be joined by Liverpool, Everton, and Middlesbrough in the semis. Seems we'll have to beat Liverpool to win it. I don't think I'd fancy us against them either way, but better chance in semis than final - they've so much big game experience I wouldn't fancy us at all at Wembley v them. 

This is my thinking too

Plus, I know he's only one player but they'll be without Salah in the semi finals, which can't be a bad thing

Delighted he had a good game and even better he got himself on the scoresheet.

Against City he didn't have a great game (not having a go as it wasn't an easy first game considering he didn't seem to play much for Chelsea even during pre season and it was against top opposition) so it's good to see he has put that past him. 

Last season the games I saw of him, it was his technical ability and confidence on the ball that stood out and he showcased that last night.  

8 minutes ago, looneytoon said:

How did he manage to get so much pace on the ball for his goal? Mind-boggling 

From a Man-U perspective they'd see it as poor defending but from ours I think it started with Joelinton winning the ball superbly, so when Willock had the ball their midfield was out of the game

Then after that Gordon makes a very clever run, which has Lindelof starting to follow and drop, that run results in him blocking Maguire and by the time Lindelof realises it's too late

Whilst Gordon doesn't get an assist for it, he effectively created the space so it's as good as an assist for me

He's fantastic, missed those driving runs of his

He gets into decent positions to score, just needs to keep working on his finishing because someone of his ability should be hitting double figures with relative ease

Solid performance, considering the injury he had it would have been understandable if there was a hesitation to get stuck in but there was absolutely none

He was happily getting stuck in and made sure to get the ball and the man

Gutted he didn't quite connect with that header as a goal for him would have been lush

He's superb, defensively really solid and is powerful when attacking

A different attacking threat to Trippier but a useful alternative to have

Howe has a real challenge on his hands giving him sufficient minutes, understand why Trippier is first choice but his performances warrant more than the odd game

He was superb, especially in that second half

He cleared quite a few headers and then he was just wrecking players when he was further up the pitch

Since he returned from injury he was rusty in the first couple, then was good against Wolves and then back to his best tonight, long may it continue 

Actually forgot how decent his kicking is

Compared to Pope he looks like Ederson

Obviously Pope is better in every other aspect but long term a keeper with good distribution would be ideal

Reguillon should get booked for waving for a card

2 minutes ago, Erikse said:

 

According to votes done by anyone. Messi is a very popular guy, no wonder he gets a lot of votes when he plays well. If Alvarez plays slightly better than him, Messi will get more votes.

 

I got the ratings wrong, I had the setting on "weekly" which only showed the final rating.

That's fair the MOTM does have subjectivity built into it

Like you said the average rating is more objective

13 minutes ago, Erikse said:

 

Not that it matters all that much, but according to whoscored (which actually gives ratings based on objective measures), they got the same average rating throughout the world cup. Messi was man of the match twice (vs Mexico and Australia), while Mbappe was MotM 3 times (vs Denmark, Poland and Argentina in the final). Messi was Agrentinas best player overall, but saying that Messi singlehandedly won them the World Cup is disrespectful to the Argentinian team. They had a lot of good players who performed well.

 

 

 

Messi got 5 official MOTM awards, which is a record for a single tournament 

Also, just checked whoscored and they had Messi at 8.25 with Mbappe at 8.0, so Messi's rating was higher by a decent margin

Which makes sense because he clearly had a better World Cup

6 hours ago, Erikse said:

 

Alvarez scored more goals from open play than Messi in the World Cup, and he won the treble aswell. So if trophies matter more than everything, he should've won it. 4 of Messis 7 goals were penalties, and clearly Mbappe was the better player in that WC. Ballon D'or is more focused on feelings rather than facts.

 

 

 

If you think Mbappe had a better World Cup than Messi (I'm talking just performances here, not who won) then you either didn't watch it or are clueless about football 

9 minutes ago, leffe186 said:

Someone somewhere contrasted it with 2010 when Messi scored a shit-ton of goals but didn’t have the best World Cup. And won the Ballon D’or.

The problem with 2010 is that Xavi and Iniesta split votes

If only one was in contention then they'd have probably won it

I understand those that are saying due to injuries we may not have a choice when it comes to prioritising what we do

I think due to the injuries we won't really have a choice as to the team we pick, apart from the defence the front 6 picks itself really, unless Ritchie gets a game which is really chucking it 

Not sure he'd be ready to start Willock yet

After being out for a long time he has played 20 mins twice, starting him seems a bit of a jump imo

With all the injuries he's limited in terms of rotating the front 6, think apart from maybe getting Hall in CM there won't be other changes

2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Aye, those forward positions are a problem. Can we call any of the U21s up for this?

The following is the team that played against Everton on Sunday

Team: Brown, Wiggett, Scott, Savage (McArthur 81), Heffernan, Carlyon, Stephenson (Ndiweni 90+3), De Bolle, Parkinson (Crossley 81), Huntley, Diallo.
Subs n/u: C.Thompson, Harris.

Parkinson got some minutes during pre season and he looked okay but nowhere near ready to play at the top level, the rest are way behind and sadly not remotely close