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2-0. Will take that
A mixed performance but I’ll focus on the positives for now, the main ones being we won the game and kept a clean sheet!
The front 4 link up play was brilliant first 25 minutes or so
Saliba looks a player
It was good to see tierney back too
Thank fuck that's over. I've no nails left. Saka goes round his full back & crosses with his right & we score. Ain't rocket science - that's what wingers used to do !!. Nice first up win & we played some very nice football in the first half. Second half - gritty /lucky.
Phewwww! TF for that...
Saliba MOTM
Ramsdale made some excellent saves but needs to stop fuckin' about
Ben White - Awful
Zinchenko very good reading of the game etc and was good
clive as usa a dullard C.unt
Ref a corrupt cu.nt who is probably having his cock sucked this very moment by haha the divingprick
Yaaaay! 2 - NIL
We are Top of the League Said We are Top of the League!
Not a great performance but it will do, potential banana skin avoided. Some good showings there but much more needed to be chasing top 3/4 with confidence. A win, 2 goals and a clean sheet with what appeared to be no injuries is not a bad season opener, now just get Tielemans to replace Xhaka and i might, just might begin to gain some confidence.
Thank fuck that's over. I've no nails left. Saka goes round his full back & crosses with his right & we score. Ain't rocket science - that's what wingers used to do !!. Nice first up win & we played some very nice football in the first half. Second half - gritty /lucky.
What you doing still up Ray? Must be what 8am there mate!
Saliba looks like he knows what he's doing as a defender. Most probably because he's spent the last three years not being a defender at our place. Ben White needs to just fucking calm down, Saka and Gabriel look fairly steady, Ramsdale's save was exactly the type of one that Leno would have let slip through his hands, Odergaard has his moments where his touch is perfect and his reading of the game is spot-on but then seems to disappear, Partey, I have no idea what's going on or what will happen. Xhaka- fuck knows; we've said it all. Zinchenko and Jesus know what it means to play for a team that has won the league a lot recently and whether that energy remains, we'll see. Whatever, it's a win and a win is a fucking win. Palace can also piss fucking off. Shithole ground, fucking gormless supporters.
Good start at a ground we were resoundly beaten last season. Saliba rightly motm. Although he was only on for 10 minutes we looked a better team with Tierney on the pitch. Although White is being criticized, he didn't get roasted by Zaha, didn't concede a penalty and it's not even his position. Think Jesus was fantastic and he will demand better passes from Xhaka.
Thought travelling support were awesome, outsang the home crowd which ain't easy.
Already better than after the first 3 games last season one down 37 to go.
In second half ayew was raping zinchenko. Let that thought sink in for a minute. Ayew is absolutely fcuking dogshite on his best days, and he was pissing by zinchenko like he wasnt there
I called it early in the game about how shit odeargod was, but our central midfield as a whole was poor all night - it is very hard to cover the huge level of ineptitude that is xhaka, but partey in second half should have just parked himself in front of our centre backs, but yet they were getting so much space in there
First game of season so the 3pts is the priority for sure, but much improvement will be needed in the coming games, and for those of you drunk/braindead retarded enough to suggest that a fit Tierney might struggle to get his place ahead of zinchenko....