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Gamez has just begun reading it, Moreno is getting close to the end and Rafa has finished and his cheeks are burning with modest pride.

 

The best banner to ever grace St. James' Park.

 

Not Gamez  man :lol:

 

I didn't believe you but I looked again and it looks nowt like him. Who is it?

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Gamez has just begun reading it, Moreno is getting close to the end and Rafa has finished and his cheeks are burning with modest pride.

 

The best banner to ever grace St. James' Park.

 

Not Gamez  man :lol:

 

I didn't believe you but I looked again and it looks nowt like him. Who is it?

 

Cristian Fernández Martínez.

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Don't know why but I f***ing love his glasses off, into top pocket, shake the opposition manager routine he has. :smitten:

 

When he was first appointed here, this was the first image that flashed into my mind. There's something really reassuring about this little routine - as if to say "right, this one's done - onto the next one".

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He has improved pretty much every player we have bought since the start of last season plus Lascelles and Shelvey.

 

In terms of Focus, Consistency, Discipline, Team Ethic everything has been massively improved in 18 months compared to the utter shambles we were previously. We can actually defend and even though I would like to see more going forward it's a solid base to start from.

 

I no longer feel a team will hammer us completely.

 

 

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I no longer feel a team will hammer us completely.

 

The performance against Liverpool was as good as we could expect given the players we have, but I'm taking it that I'm one of the few who felt like they could have scored 4 or 5 if they actually finished a bit better? Salah especially seemed to be constantly running into acres of space to exploit. Alot of their shooting on the day was straight at Elliott, or we had somewhat fortunate goal-line clearances.

 

Don't have much a point to this mind, beyond saying that I don't think we're quite as solid defensively as many seem to think and that we'll most likely get a couple of pastings this season by teams less forgiving in front of goal.

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I no longer feel a team will hammer us completely.

 

The performance against Liverpool was as good as we could expect given the players we have, but I'm taking it that I'm one of the few who felt like they could have scored 4 or 5 if they actually finished a bit better? Salah especially seemed to be constantly running into acres of space to exploit. Alot of their shooting on the day was straight at Elliott, or we had somewhat fortunate goal-line clearances.

 

Don't have much a point to this mind, beyond saying that I don't think we're quite as solid defensively as many seem to think and that we'll most likely get a couple of pastings this season by teams less forgiving in front of goal.

They had 2 shots on target IIRC.

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I no longer feel a team will hammer us completely.

 

The performance against Liverpool was as good as we could expect given the players we have, but I'm taking it that I'm one of the few who felt like they could have scored 4 or 5 if they actually finished a bit better? Salah especially seemed to be constantly running into acres of space to exploit. Alot of their shooting on the day was straight at Elliott, or we had somewhat fortunate goal-line clearances.

 

Don't have much a point to this mind, beyond saying that I don't think we're quite as solid defensively as many seem to think and that we'll most likely get a couple of pastings this season by teams less forgiving in front of goal.

They had 2 shots on target IIRC.

 

That doesn't tell the whole story though, Salah's attempt after Clark air kicked it went over the bar, Wijnaldum's shot that hit the post, Chamberlain's header late on, the goal mouth scramble early on and i'm sure there's more which don't cover "shots on target".

 

As much as we did limit them, they definitely created enough to win by 2 or 3 goals.

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No team ever scores all their chances (except us in the 5th place season). That's just part of the game. Draw was a fair result all things considered, they certainly didn't do enough to win by two or three, unless you're willing to discount all of our chances as well.

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Nope just stating the facts, no need to get defensive over it. We did deserve a draw and i was happy with the performance for the most part, it's impossible to limit a team with that much talent to nothing. Just saying what i said to make the point that 2 shots on target doesn't really show what really happened on the day.

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