Guest bimpy474 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 anyone glean anything about anita? Nippy little fecker. Seems to have a footballing brain and looks for the short, simple pass. Aye, schooled in the right way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ba seemed to be gutted to get subbed. Says he just wants the team to do well but I'm not quite buying it. The happiness isn't there.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 We were rubbish, they were worse. Magnificent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR15 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 So happy. I'm off for some drinks. Some... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ba seemed to be gutted to get subbed. Says he just wants the team to do well but I'm not quite buying it. The happiness isn't there.... Neither is his concentration, standing around ball watching for most of the game, great finish and that's all you need etc...but he's better than that imo and i expect more after Ramadan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ba seemed to be gutted to get subbed. Says he just wants the team to do well but I'm not quite buying it. The happiness isn't there.... Wed all be unhappy to be subbed for obertan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Fan-bloody-tastic result to start the season. We weren't great but neithet were they. Could be a big result in the Champions League race... Highlights being Pardew and 'that' Taylor header. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ba seemed to be gutted to get subbed. Says he just wants the team to do well but I'm not quite buying it. The happiness isn't there.... Should have stayed on and switched with Cisse tbh. If we absolutely had to bring on Obertan, should've been for Papi. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaehyun Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Get in, I never expected us to win, a draw at best. Anyway clearly we aren't fully fit, clearly we need to work on our midfield and Simpson is still s***. Ben Arfa was the MTM for me, a real positive performance for us, good to see him looking more physical and getting back in order to get the ball and cover Simpson. simpson is not s***. He's clearly much worse than shit. Same as the majority of last season then, average performance good result. Definitely, it's not just about defensive work. He breaks down our plays moving out of defence and going forward which puts unnecessary pressure onto our backline. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 We were rubbish, they were worse. Magnificent. Spurs were the better team for quite a bit, tbh. But it's good to see that we produced 2 goals even though our attacking play wasn't nowhere near fluent enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest optimistic nit Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Thought santon also had his best gane for us!! he was alright, but got torn a new one by lennon a couple of times. Think Simpson gets far too much stick on here to be honest, He did a better job against Bale than Santon did against Lennon in my opinion, and Bale is supposed to be the better player. Not saying I wouldn't like more strength in depth in the fullbacks position, but none of our XI looked out of their depth to me(can someone please explain what has happened to Perch?). Very good performance, passing was a bit wasteful on the ground, but the thing I found most promising was the percentage of our headers that found another black and white shirts. All the top teams are excellent at this, but last season one of the main weaknesses in our game was our inability to find a teammate with a header. We had so much more posession this game compared to how we would have fared last season imo, purely because when we went up for a header we looked for another black and white shirt, instead of just trying to header the ball up the field. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I haven't been so glad to see a ref blow in a long time. Ben Arfa's magic today was amazing. And Ba should gtfo with his stupid sulking over not taking the penalty. Ugly to see him just walk off like a spoiled child instead of celebrating with Benny. All in all, even if it was a scrappy game, the second half with the 4-3-3ish formation was like a new team compared to the first half. Bad marking from Simpson when Lennon could just walk in and place the cross though, someone should have watched out for that, and most likely it was Simpsons job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Best game for Santon? He wasn't bad today, but his performance against Man Utd was magnificent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Yeah, Santon did well but he's had much better games than that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Lennon loves coming alive against us, still a very inconsistent performance from him today, thankfully. still a danger whenever running at us though, turns players for fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginola Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Far from our best in the first half, a much improved second half but again not at our best. That said we got the win against one of the top sides in the league, so that makes it an excellent start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Far from our best in the first half, a much improved second half but again not at our best. That said we got the win against one of the top sides in the league, so that makes it an excellent start. 2pts up from last season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyAnth Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Chuffed with that, so satisfying to win when we didn't play well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tisd09 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I thought Santon struggled at times but Lennon looked sharp at times too. A 6 for me, looked comfortable going forward though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest optimistic nit Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 been mentioned before, but the berwilderment on ben arfa's face when he saw Obertan coming on was priceless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Let's be frank here, we weren't brilliant by any means and probably didn't deserve all three points objectively, so don't know where the 8 and 9 ratings are coming from. Still, the result is brilliant and we can go to Stamford Bridge next week without to much pressure, where we will hopefully be a little bit more match fit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garth Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 been mentioned before, but the berwilderment on ben arfa's face when he saw Obertan coming on was priceless. It looked more like, is it me coming off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest optimistic nit Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Let's be frank here, we weren't brilliant by any means and probably didn't deserve all three points objectively, so don't know where the 8 and 9 ratings are coming from. Still, the result is brilliant and we can go to Stamford Bridge next week without to much pressure, where we will hopefully be a little bit more match fit. we were worse than spurs in the first half (although not by that much), as average as them at the start of the second half, but once we scored there was only one team in it imo. Even after they equalised, we went straight up the field, scored, and after that Spurs just stopped playing. Apart from a few bewildering passes to nowhere i thought we were very good. just cant believe how solid perch and taylor looked. they let spurs through a couple of times, but given my feelings prior to the match I didn't feel nervous about that partnership all game. if they lined up against spurs 2 years ago fuck knows what would have happened, even with that spurs lineup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ben Arfa and Ba produced the moments of class that won us the game. Otherwise we looked very disjointed, even in the second half, and we have to look to improve. It wasn't a great Spurs side, but they still looked far better on the ball. Got to disagree with Parky on the pen. Professional footballers shouldn't be arguing like a bunch of kids on who takes it. That has to be decided before the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Let's be frank here, we weren't brilliant by any means and probably didn't deserve all three points objectively, so don't know where the 8 and 9 ratings are coming from. Still, the result is brilliant and we can go to Stamford Bridge next week without to much pressure, where we will hopefully be a little bit more match fit. we were worse than spurs in the first half (although not by that much), as average as them at the start of the second half, but once we scored there was only one team in it imo. Even after they equalised, we went straight up the field, scored, and after that Spurs just stopped playing. Apart from a few bewildering passes to nowhere i thought we were very good. just cant believe how solid perch and taylor looked. they let spurs through a couple of times, but given my feelings prior to the match I didn't feel nervous about that partnership all game. if they lined up against spurs 2 years ago f*** knows what would have happened, even with that spurs lineup. We'll have to agree to disagree. After we scored we sat back and you could sense an equaliser coming a mile off in my opinion. Also, I don't think our defence looked solid at all, especially the full backs. We were lucky they only had Defoe available as the only striker in a 433, as that is not his best position at all and things might have been very different if they could have played somebody like Adebayor up top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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