Good evening.
Time for us to focus our thoughts on what is a massive, massive game. The list of those we failed to replace, the injured and the retired is well documented. The victory against Maribor was welcome of course but needs to be appreciated in the context of – this was an unremarkable Maribor.
That said, it will create a feel good factor. That’s quite rightly how football works.
But how brave will the boss be against the Champions? My suspicion is that the answer is ‘not too brave.’ I don’t believe he’ll play Hugo and I don’t believe he’ll drop Walker and certainly not for Naughton. I believe that showing confidence in players cuts both ways and ‘that’ goal in the Naughton/Lloris fiasco shouldn’t be used as stick to beat either men with.
Carroll has to start. To dare is to naffin’ well do and I think he’s earned this. Against City I believe we need to play with a 3 in the midfield given the resources. Thud and Sandro isn’t enough. It will end up with Mr Beastly doing himself a mischief again. But more so it’s a case of we must be creative and the two Toms between them will give us a fighting chance.
Bale on the left, Azza Lemon on the right and for me it’s Adebayor to start. Do you drop your hat-trick man? The brave do. On the strength of the Europa game Ade is back or at least very close to being back in business. We miss Moussa horribly and between Carroll and Ade we can at least attempt to mend and make do.
I predict a 3-2 win.
401st!!!
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Harry harry harry the eyeballer is dismayed!
How bad was that second half performance? It was toothless, gormless, rudderless – simply unacceptable. The eyeballer asks the question : does avb know what he is doing?
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All in all, things aren’t a lot different to last season apart from the brand of football we seem to be playing. It hasn’t seemed to work at home very well so far but away it has served us better. We have gained some good points away but thrown virtually the same amount away at home. My point is, the tactics have changed but the points tally is much the same, so far.
The only difference now is we look a predominantly defensive side rather than an attacking one. Is that the Spurs way and if it isn’t, should we betray our traditions when we are no better off?
I’m getting a bit bored with it all at the moment, its all getting predictable, does not excite me at all. And we sit in the same place as usual… Yawn!
Points tally is down if you compare like for like.
What is most worrying to the eyeballer is Liverpool gave a great account of themselves at the bridge – at ratrate we are going they will be above us in the league soon – horrible horrible horrible
Heart and soul is one of our missing ingredients.
Beats me why Dempsey was not pulled off yesterday.. had high hopes he’d do well with us, but he simply hasn’t turned in one decent display yet..he looked so out of his depth yesterday
An in-form JD vice Dempsey was so glaringly obvious yesterday that i’m beginning to doubt AVB’s credentials
well you can pull him off if you want…