Do you know what the worst thing is? I didn’t even have to look any of that up. All from memoryOriginally Posted by Letters
You do love your irrelevant stats
(as do I)
Yet I’ll go into a shop and forget to buy the thing I went in there for
Do you know what the worst thing is? I didn’t even have to look any of that up. All from memoryYou do love your irrelevant stats
(as do I)
Yet I’ll go into a shop and forget to buy the thing I went in there for
My memory is pretty patchy these days.
I have a 4 year old daughter who routinely thrashes me at pairs.
But play the first few seconds of a Beatles song or give me a Simpsons reference and I’m your man
Fairs re the question. Re MLS though, while he has advanced into MF from LB plenty, lets face it he hasn't even played that many games for us at LB let alone starting in an unfamiliar position in this team in this season's most important game. It's not only the position, its the relationships with the players around him playing it that is just as important. With PSG's ferocious press, the last think I would do is introduce any unfamiliarity for him for this game.
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
On the topic of PSG’s ferocious press…I’d allow them to tire themselves out with it….they couldn’t maintain the intensity level either at Anfield or Villa Park. First half soak up the pressure, second half give them a bloody nose
Yup - good tactic.
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
How did you manage to copy & paste that from your brain?
Are you Johnny Mnemonic
Their ferocious press is exactly what we want, teams play into our hands when they do this.
Copy and paste it?How did you manage to copy & paste that from your brain?
Are you Johnny Mnemonic
Nope I typed that out (took me all of five minutes)
Johnny Mnemonic? Are we back in 1996?, I did find myself watching 12 Monkeys again last night…love that film, so maybe we are
Indeed, stranger things have happened......
Umm what kind of press are we discussing here, as I've not really studied them lately? Because if they play similar to the way we do when we really press i.e. go after every ball and defender while they are trying to play from the back, I absolutely do not think that favours us, especially when you consider brain fart Saliba and Rayadinho.
In fact none of our defenders are dependable if they are properly chased around for about 20 mins. Partey is the only one who can manage 3 guy running at him to a certain extent, and even he is guilty of playing the pressured pass.
The PSG I remember ( at least from the match we played earlier) play like most big teams. They go all gung-ho when they attack and once their attackers lose the ball, they ease off and hardly chase you while trying to run back . They feign they are trying to help the defenders by occupying space but really they are just trying to set themselves for a counter once they get the ball. That sort of game suits us to the tee.
Attackers actively pressing the way we do is not easy for us to handle (a reason we keep losing to Newscastle) and I hope thats not the way they are going to set out.
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