Match reaction vs Anderlecht

[Power n Glory]

I watched that last night, switched off, and went to bed and had a long peaceful nights sleep.

It happens too often now to get depressed about it.

I find I'm much happier without too much football nowadays. It stinks, it's corrupt and there's too much money in it.

I was soooo happy we got the FA Cup last year, and so I think I've drawn a line under it now. Unless football cleans itself up, I don't think I want to waste my life on it anymore.

You're not the only one. I had the game on in the background but wasn't paying it too much attention or getting over excited or frustrated with the performance. We've seen it all before.

[topgun]

I read today that the Anderlecht manager said in his post match interview that they had to change their tactics at half time and he was very surprised that Arsenal never responded to this.He obviously has not watched Arsenal much then.

[Power n Glory]

The player who validated the theory for me and convinced me to take it to print.

Lampard - a shadow striker as he had zero defensive responsibilities at his peak, just had to ghost into the box and pick up knockdowns. Very similar position that Sanchez has played in the last couple of games. A midfielder is defined by his defensive responsibilities, an attacking player with nothing to do defensively is an attacker. FACT.

So 147 goals in 429 for Chelsea according to Wiki. By rights that sort of rates puts him in the James Beattie/Andy Carroll class of forward, pretty meh. But hes too smart for such a thing, so what did he do? Convince everybody hes "just a midfielder me". Every interview he did he always made sure to mention the word "midfielder", think about it. Coupled with his media pals drawing fraudulent formational diagrams showing 4-5-1s rather than 4-4-2s or 4-4-1-1s and all of a sudden hes the "greatest goalscoring midfielder for a generation".

You're on to something. I've never rated the guy.

[Power n Glory]

This is quite simply wrong. Did you actually watch full matches or just highlights? He was outstanding in nearly every department last season. His game clicked together and the goals were the bonus result of his outstanding all-round game. He may have gotten back into old habits so far this season but that doesn't mean you should completely dismiss what was a genuinely fantastic output from someone who appeared to have transformed into the complete midfielder.

Very wrong. He was a beast last season and the complete box to
box midfielder we hadn't seen in this team for years. He was never a slouch when it came to defending.