Ajax (H) - CL, Tue 13th Sep 2022 (8:00pm)

[Red Phoenix]

Oh fuck, I thought it was wednesday instead of tuesday and missed it. Great to see we won anyway, thought we might do being at home and having to get that Napoli game behind us.

 

Will probably watch a recording of it over the next few days.

[3 Stacks]

Good performance and win. Can't be too demanding after this start of the season.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

My cat came home as well tonight, so it's been pleasant enough.  I'll round it off by falling asleep to a YT vid of David Suchet reading excerpts from The Book of Psalms.  Unabridged.

[polymerpunkah]

A good match-up, style-wise, as they seemed unable/unwilling to sit back then hoof it long looking to attack a disorganized defense.

 

I'm hoping that they start to go in sooner rather than later.

 

When's the next match? October?

 

Christ.

[Guest]

We didn't get snotted!!

[Mark M]

Jota was great his energy and ability to link play really made a difference.

[stringvest]

6 minutes ago, Mark M said:

Jota was great his energy and ability to link play really made a difference.

He's like a much more mobile Firmino in that regard, plus he's a proper threat in front of goal.  He was great last night, buzzing around and causing a nuisance.  He's difficult to knock off the ball as well when he's running with it.

[joe_fishfish]

7 hours ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

My cat came home as well tonight, so it's been pleasant enough.  I'll round it off by falling asleep to a YT vid of David Suchet reading excerpts from The Book of Psalms.  Unabridged.

How can excerpts be unabridged? Truly a puzzle for the ages.

[clockspeed]

Can we have a discussion about Trent  a logical one . Something has happened either with himself or with team tactics leaving him bemused, confused and generally lost as to what he should be doing . Taking into account he is fit to play I am now leaning towards it is team tactics that he either does not understand or cannot execute. More worring is he is not vocal at barking out orders to the midfield who are plainly not helping him out nor is the leader of our defence giving organisational advice. We do not seem to understand what is going wrong and cannot fix it. All the mistakes are manifesting themselves through Trent and I cannot put my finger on it I was hoping our highly paid analysis team us senior players would shed some light on it. Milner has played there this season so should have a pretty good idea of what trent is experiencing.  He has not be one a bad player or a good defender overnight  . Where is the help from the backroom or on the pitch . You know what same goes for Nunez everyone pointing out how he does not "fit" what are we going to do to make him fit. We have form on this we bought Collymore without a plan and took 2 years to work out his best position . These two guys are the future of our team we need to start showing how we are going to adapt to their strengths rather than getting them to improve on their weaknesses. 

[cloggypop]

Yesterday I had people coming from different departments to talk to me about football. It was the main topic of conversation all day. All the Ajax lads reckoned they would batter us. Today everyone seems to have lost all interest in football. No mention of it whatsoever and I'm not bringing it up myself. I do seem to be the only person smiling in work though. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

8 minutes ago, clockspeed said:

Can we have a discussion about Trent  a logical one . Something has happened either with himself or with team tactics leaving him bemused, confused and generally lost as to what he should be doing . Taking into account he is fit to play I am now leaning towards it is team tactics that he either does not understand or cannot execute. More worring is he is not vocal at barking out orders to the midfield who are plainly not helping him out nor is the leader of our defence giving organisational advice. We do not seem to understand what is going wrong and cannot fix it. All the mistakes are manifesting themselves through Trent and I cannot put my finger on it I was hoping our highly paid analysis team us senior players would shed some light on it. Milner has played there this season so should have a pretty good idea of what trent is experiencing.  He has not be one a bad player or a good defender overnight  . Where is the help from the backroom or on the pitch . You know what same goes for Nunez everyone pointing out how he does not "fit" what are we going to do to make him fit. We have form on this we bought Collymore without a plan and took 2 years to work out his best position . These two guys are the future of our team we need to start showing how we are going to adapt to their strengths rather than getting them to improve on their weaknesses. 

There's definitely been a tactical shift, with him cutting inside a lot more. It's not working, though.

[JustTosh]

We pressed well yesterday. That high pressuer only works if every man's doing his job. Jota does! Until Darwin learns to do the same Jota should be starting for us.

 

Once again TAA just stops after being passed, leaving biig bird with too much to do. Result 1-1. This has to stop. Unfortunately Tsimikas is a left back and we really don't have anyone except Gomez to fill in. TAA really shoukd be benched for this, but we may not have that option.

 

Great performance from Matip, Van Dijk, Thiago and Tsimikas. Good to see Jota back too.

 

Over all we did well.

 

 

 

 

 

[Code]

 

[El Rojo]

1 minute ago, Code said:

 

Love the way Big Joel is patting the steward's back during the celebration.

[gkmacca]

10 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

What's with Arthur - c'mon man.

'Not now, Arthur'.

 

 

[alles ist gut]

12 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

What's with Arthur - c'mon man.

He got injured when he was walking down the street 

[sir roger]

I don't really think Jurgen planned on Arthur playing at all until after the break, but the scale of the shitness in Naples through him a curveball.

 

 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

4 hours ago, joe_fishfish said:

How can excerpts be unabridged? Truly a puzzle for the ages.

Please don't write to David, he's busy.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

I haven't researched the game 'sans emotion' but my memory is that of a usual struggle-to-score-and-be-afraid affair.

 

Kudos to Kudus, you dont save them. 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 13/09/2022 at 14:28, dockers_strike said:

And what fucking good would that do the team? Honestly.

Make them laugh?

[Bjornebye]

8 hours ago, cloggypop said:

Yesterday I had people coming from different departments to talk to me about football. It was the main topic of conversation all day. All the Ajax lads reckoned they would batter us. Today everyone seems to have lost all interest in football. No mention of it whatsoever and I'm not bringing it up myself. I do seem to be the only person smiling in work though. 

Cloggy on his way into work this morning

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, clockspeed said:

Can we have a discussion about Trent  a logical one . Something has happened either with himself or with team tactics leaving him bemused, confused and generally lost as to what he should be doing . Taking into account he is fit to play I am now leaning towards it is team tactics that he either does not understand or cannot execute. More worring is he is not vocal at barking out orders to the midfield who are plainly not helping him out nor is the leader of our defence giving organisational advice. We do not seem to understand what is going wrong and cannot fix it. All the mistakes are manifesting themselves through Trent and I cannot put my finger on it I was hoping our highly paid analysis team us senior players would shed some light on it. Milner has played there this season so should have a pretty good idea of what trent is experiencing.  He has not be one a bad player or a good defender overnight  . Where is the help from the backroom or on the pitch . You know what same goes for Nunez everyone pointing out how he does not "fit" what are we going to do to make him fit. We have form on this we bought Collymore without a plan and took 2 years to work out his best position . These two guys are the future of our team we need to start showing how we are going to adapt to their strengths rather than getting them to improve on their weaknesses. 

I thought Trent played a lot better last night. Elliott is down his side and Trent gets exposed because Elliott is poor out of possession. I'm still not a great lover of Elliott just yet.

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I thought Trent played a lot better last night. Elliott is down his side and Trent gets exposed because Elliott is poor out of possession. I'm still not a great lover of Elliott just yet.

He did but his positioning is still very suspect. 

 

Elliot is having a good season. 

[LFC 6 Times]

The smoke being blown up Elliot’s arse is crazy. He’s really not up to it yet. Cannot fathom why he’s playing every game.

[sir roger]

I think Harvey will be a smashing player for us, but at the moment he looks good on the ball but spends a lot of the time off the ball chasing around ineffectively while opponents just play the ball around him.