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What this bloke could do in a few more windows and without injuries. A 0-0 away from home and a thumping home win against two of the best teams in Europe is the classic stuff of experienced dab hands at European football.

Wasn't even our best shot tonight.

 

Was an absolute disgrace doubting this bloke and slagging off this team. They're a small fraction as good at their jobs at this club as Eddie and team are.

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10 minutes ago, KaKa said:

So ... tactical enough now? Elite enough?

 

Top top manager.

 

Done that tonight with Botman, Joelinton, Wilson, Willock and Barnes not available.

 

Hope the doubters all calm the heck down now.

 

 

 

Nah neither, just a knock off Mr.Motivator.

 

 

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15 minutes ago, KaKa said:

So ... tactical enough now? Elite enough?

 

Top top manager.

 

Done that tonight with Botman, Joelinton, Wilson, Willock and Barnes not available.

 

Hope the doubters all calm the heck down now.

 

 

 

I said it after our losing streak, we had the same discussions around february, that he was found out and couldn't change things up. Then we went on an amazing run after that. He has once again proven that him (and the team) can bounce back in style.

 

 

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40 minutes ago, KaKa said:

Love how the current defensive setup is coming along.

 

Pick our moments to press and if teams play through it, drop into that compact block just in front of our box.

 

Looking very promising.

 

Tbh I didn't understand how it was possible to press high and still remain defensively sound against players iike Mbappe and Ndombele, but now we know what the bleep tests were for when he took over.

 

He's on course to becoming a legend here.

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PSG didn't seem prepared properly, and as we've seen before, if any team comes with the wrong approach, our guy will do them like a kipper.

 

Strange to say, but after what's happened over the last two years, the result is not a surprise. 

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Look at Schär tonight. He pretty much played as a hybrid CB and CM (N-O finally got their wish), pushing up loads when we were pressing and leaving the back line to Lascelles and Burn & Trippier. So fucking brave to instead of us just sitting deep to defender against Mbappes and Dembeles pace, he found a way to make sure they didn't even get a chance to run at our defence. Obviously it was exactly that which lead to his goal, but he was doing it all game.

Think the only time PSG managed to play through it was the Dembele chance when Lascelles and Burn were closing him down in the second half.

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"We made it as clear as we could. We wanted to be ourselves when we played AC Milan and we were not where we needed to be," Howe added.

"But I think that was expected with the three defeats previously to that game. I think we came here with a lot more confident mood. We wanted to be ourselves and then take the result whatever it is."

 


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Our shape is evolving. We don’t pedal to the metal press for the full game. We’re learning when to sit off and how to sit off.  Getting compact, making it harder to play through the lines and then crowding and harassing the player receiving the ball if they do. Midfielders turning and getting to them and defenders stepping right into their faces.

 

We’re also showing we can play through a tight midfield with little lay offs and one touch passing between the midfielders designed to get one of them a little bit more time to get their head up and progress the ball. 
 

Think the Milan game did something. We’ve changed since.

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