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The other games today - 2012/13


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Bloody hell so many players can't do those little dinked crosses onto someones heads, get to the edge of box and do perfect lob over all the players  :lol: Ba and cisse scored off a perfect dink over one defender from ben arfa iirc

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West Brom aren't that good. Pisses me off the way we've wasted this season.

 

They were set up well earlier in the season similar to us last season, very solid at back and then just clinical at front. Players were largely not all that good though so their form hasn't lasted.

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Did West Brom have a meaningful shot in that match?

 

We've been doing that a lot tbh. I mean of course they had ten men for half the game, but we had 65% possession before that.

 

We're decent at controlling a game, but struggle to break teams down. Partly lack of guile by the support players (Walker, Dempsey at times, Lennon at times), but a great deal can be laid at the feet/brain of Defoe. A clever, clinical forward like Michu would have made us far more incisive. Holtby will help a great deal, but most of all I hope that Ade comes back raring to-go (ahem). If he does, then I actually think we're in a great position for the CL.

 

Bale is a funny kettle of fish. I mean, so much of the coverage and comment is either excessively fawning, or an excessive reaction to the fawning. He's really, really good. I hate his readiness to go down so easily (as with any footballer) and it's never right, but when you see some of the tackles he has to deal with it's really not all that surprising. Apart from one or two today, just look at the one against Norwich when he did that lovely pirouette. Shaw (?) comes screaming in two-footed, and would have broken his ankle in two if Bale hadn't been so quick. Ref didn't even say a word.

 

Thank fuck we won today though. The fans would have been up in arms after our failure to add a striker and Defoe's injury. I thought that it was Manchester and Chelsea guaranteed 1, 2, 3, and then a punch up between Merseyside and North London for fourth - but maybe, just maybe, Chelsea can still fuck it up. Next week will be a cracking game between us.

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Did West Brom have a meaningful shot in that match?

 

We've been doing that a lot tbh. I mean of course they had ten men for half the game, but we had 65% possession before that.

 

We're decent at controlling a game, but struggle to break teams down. Partly lack of guile by the support players (Walker, Dempsey at times, Lennon at times), but a great deal can be laid at the feet/brain of Defoe. A clever, clinical forward like Michu would have made us far more incisive. Holtby will help a great deal, but most of all I hope that Ade comes back raring to-go (ahem). If he does, then I actually think we're in a great position for the CL.

 

Bale is a funny kettle of fish. I mean, so much of the coverage and comment is either excessively fawning, or an excessive reaction to the fawning. He's really, really good. I hate his readiness to go down so easily (as with any footballer) and it's never right, but when you see some of the tackles he has to deal with it's really not all that surprising. Apart from one or two today, just look at the one against Norwich when he did that lovely pirouette. Shaw (?) comes screaming in two-footed, and would have broken his ankle in two if Bale hadn't been so quick. Ref didn't even say a word.

 

Thank fuck we won today though. The fans would have been up in arms after our failure to add a striker and Defoe's injury. I thought that it was Manchester and Chelsea guaranteed 1, 2, 3, and then a punch up between Merseyside and North London for fourth - but maybe, just maybe, Chelsea can still fuck it up. Next week will be a cracking game between us.

 

I can't see us finishing 4th. We still have all of the top 7, bar Man City, away from home. I can probably count on one hand the amount of these games we've won in the past 5-10 years.

 

Really hope Man City win today.

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