RocktheCasbah if Liverpool win tomorrow, Spurs players will be in a tricky position
Manchester United v Arsenal - Sunday May 12th - 1630 PM GMT
Claudius don't think it makes any difference. If Spurs had got a result in one or two of their recent losses there might still be a chance of 4th but it's out of reach now with so few games left and 5th is safe. They'll physically turn up to the game because they have to but that's all.
United did really well today. They were brave and pushed up and created good pressure. But we are a better team, so our midfield really disappointed me. We should’ve been able to keep pressing them and countering against their high line. The whole midfield just lacked purpose and the instinct to punish this high line.
Stressful game as it was always going to be. Feels special to win up there when it comes so rarely. Just such a shame it feels a bit futile.
We tried our best to bottle that didn’t we?
Looked nervy and leggy as fuck.
Anyway a win is a win.
We are all scousers tomorrow night.
It was all down to nerves mate.
Lukazan
Mate spurs fans are different to the players and manager. Ange would want to go out on a high.
Half of Spurs players are Arsenal fans anyway
Tactics
I’m seriously considering going to the game as well. Fulham game didn’t go too great but it was sunny and a Sat so low risk. Going to that shithole on a school night might be a step too far.
Ten Haag's taking this worse than we thought.
Not a very good performance at all, I don't know what we were trying to do but just about got us over the line. I know we have been stung on the counter by Man Utd before but I am entirely sure they had much of that threat today, would have been nice to won more comfortably but fuck it I'll take it.
invisibleman18 If Spurs had got a result in one or two of their recent losses there might still be a chance of 4th
I mean, Liverpool have gotta beat Villa and then they've gotta beat City. The first is not too unlikely, the second is a nonsense. But if those two things somehow happen, they've got a decent shot of Villa dropping more points to a resurgent Palace.
Burnwinter They are closer than I thought. I had a 7 point gap in my head for some reason - must have last looked at the table before their win yesterday. But still think at this point 4th is gone.
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what I've noticed is our attack doesn't have the oomph to do jose-stype sucker punch counters when we're sitting deep. we lack the efficiency/clinicality to play that way. our guys look indecisive and sloppy when trying to break out of a deep block. our goals come when we're engaged in a high press and making a high volume of actions around box. we need 1 cheat code forward/winger to give us a pressure release when we're defending deep
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/27880140/erik-ten-hag-man-utd-arsenal-saka/
The usually playful Sun nails it. Ten Hag neutralised Saka / Odegaard. Exact same thing that Tuchel and Conceicao did. Just look for the average positions of opponents in both of those games and you see 5 players on Ode and Saka. We have a consistent problem of not being able to punish teams on the left when they do this. It should be an easy switch. This summer we should be prepared to rethink everyone out left
Claudius In my opinion, we should:
- get that 6/8 (Guimarães or De Jong thanks)
- solve left back either with Timber, or a Ben White level player
- get in a world class young talent (touch, athleticism, intelligence, goal-scoring) for the left wing
The new winger doesn't need to be a £100m man. A generational talent ready to have some fun in the spaces out there if we face this right-side shutdown is enough. But the player can't be short on any key attributes, so it's a tough one.