grange
Losing my brain cells 🥸
Country: USA
Player:Havertz
London didn't love him backMight get Tuchel instead actually, he seemed to love London.
Hot take...we are actually very well placed. 5 reasons why.
I mean, its actually not at all a hot take as I think a lot of people feel the same. I personally think we are really well placed for the second half of the season. Here's why.
We've missed Romero who is key to passing out the back and generally our best defender, Deki who is key to our creativity and attack functioning, and Richarlison who is key to rotaing our front three, all for months. Throw in rotation options like Skipp, Doherty, and Lucas all missing half the season so far and we've run our starting 11 into the ground.
- Our position relative to injuries. We will finish this third of the season in 4th and having topped the UCL group. If you'd have offered that to us at start of season given the mad schedule I think we'd probably have taken it. Throw in the injuries and it's a minor miracle.
2. The recent settling of our new signings Bissouma and Perisic have looked quality last few games and should be primed to kick on after the WC. Bissouma has looked like the player we all thought we'd signed now he seems to have settled in and git some confidence. He's going to be a beast. 352 now looks a legit option provided we can buy a functioning RWB.....
3. January transfer window. This seems big as it feels like we are just missing in a few key areas to function like conte properly wants. Romeros and Kulu cover is a must as we've seen how hard it hits us, as well as a good RWB. Luckily by all accounts this is exactly what we are going to do, and the fact that there will be lots more movement than a normal Jan window, means we should be able to achieve it.
4. Conte teams do better post Xmas. This will be the most contentious one but there are several reports saying our training and conditioning is built around hitting the post Xmas period. If you look at Contes inter team when they won the league they started pretty well....but then after Xmas they just kept winning. It was actually similar to us where fans complained about the style being stodgy at the start and not clicking. And then after Xmas they just ground out win after win after win.
5. Our workload relative to others. If you look at the teams who are above us this season it comes as no suprise it's City who have a monster squad, Arsenal who have had an easy europa league group stage where you can rotate, and Newcastle who have had no midweek football. Just look at how many games Bentancur (20) and kane (23) have started this season versus Partey (12) and Jesus (15).
Now City's crazy squad depth isn't going to change, nor is newcastle not having European football. However Arsenal's ability to rotate midweek will go out the window in the europa knockout stages. They won't be able to get away with playing Nketieh and Rob holding, so it should start to take a similar toll on their squad as it has ours.
So there we go. That's my minor dissertation as to why we are pretty well placed for the second half of the season. And, world cup injuries permitting, can still kick on and do big things.
Another classic from my boy rob from r/coys.
I particularly like point 5.
I wouldn't get too over confident just yet sorry, we may have a few WC players injured for a few weeks, don't forget we haven't been finishing aswell as we should be with our chances we are creating. Also depends on how Man City go after the WC too.Also... dont forget to bookmark this.
Robhowardreg
Lads....I'm calling this now.
Our first 5 games after world cup are Brentford, Villa, Palace, Runners, Fulham
Runners are West Ham, Brighton, Newcastle, Us, Utd.
We will be above them in the league by end of Jan. Bookmark this.
This is a Sp**s fan mate. He is saying Tottenham have those fixtures (Brentford, Fulham, etc.), Arsenal have those fixtures (West Ham, Brighton, United, etc). Then he goes on to say that Sp**s will be ahead of Arsenal after those fixtures, at the end of January.
What do you say?
Wow, this sounds risky. It's been one week after the injury, and it will be a bit over three weeks from the injury until South Korea's first game.Pretty sure he will miss it.
"Even if the position of the fractured bone has been held with plates and screws it still takes about six weeks for your cheekbone to heal completely. During this time you need to be careful to avoid an injury to this side of your face, since it may well push the cheekbone back out of position again. You should also avoid blowing your nose for two weeks following surgery because otherwise this can produce swelling in and around the eye."
"Depending on the nature of your work it may be necessary to take a fortnight or so off, and to avoid strenuous exercise for this time. Some sports with a high risk of facial injury should not be performed for up to three months."
Fracture of the Cheekbone | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Last 16 of the Champions League exit for Sp**s I am hearing...
A never ending circle of nothing, year after year. If Conte can't get this club where we want it to be I don't know if we'll ever be successful. Something has gone seriously wrong so far this season, I really thought with the new additions plus the strong finish to last season we'd really push on but instead we seem to be going backwards.