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2020/21 Carlo Ancelotti

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catcherintherye said:
Most of the teams you mention are poor mate. We will beat Villa twice I think. Spurs and Arsenal are terrible.

After the weekend, we will have played Leicester, Liverpool, United twice. They, along with City are the best teams. City on the final day of the season, hopefully when its wrapped up.

After Saturday, I dont fear anyone until City on that final day.
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If you think we're better than arsenal and villa........why?
 
BlueToff said:
I mean we lost Allan and went on to win the next 4/5 league games.

Our issues don't stem from just losing Allan. They stem from not having more than one or two ways of getting to goal, and one of those ways is set-pieces, which we don't win enough of (4 corners in last 5 league games).
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Bare In mind we beat arsenal and Chelsea when they were playing terrible, Lampard got sacked not long after and people were calling for Arteta to be sacked, who were the others Wolves who have been awful for most this season. Those wins weren’t as good as they looked.
 
bicycleheader said:
i don’t think he trusts a number of them at all. He is shuffling about between one poor player and another, particularly in midfield when in an ideal world he wouldn’t have them at the club. For me it’s directly linked to what way we set up for now.

in fact in many posts it’s like people assume that whatever he is doing now will be exactly the same as what he does after further squad changes. Surely his track record should ensure you lean on the side of yes, yes of course it will get better with better players? Rather than worrying about how the hell other teams play and us being too boring for you?

I pray for Allan to stay fit and Doucoure along side him. Unfortunately we will still need to rely on one of the others beside them.
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Brands biggest failing has been the inability to move players on who have no future here and aren’t contributing - i’ll not list them we all know who they are and it’s a long list.

To be fair to a Brands it’s not a problem exclusive to us. But yeah, I have faith Carlo can pick the right players when we eventually do move on the players we don’t want and it will improve.

Keeping both Allan and Doucoure fit for the whole season would have been massive for us. Allan has been a huge miss, Carlo’s tried all sorts of players and formations to try to cover for him...
 
BlueToff said:
But all that that tells me is we're overly reliant on a select few players (Digne and James) to create chances from open play.

But we have to have more purpose, mate. Imagine where we are with wins over Fulham and Newcastle - games that we hardly tested their goalkeepers in.
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Pretty much answered yourself in your 1st point just emphasises the drop off in quality from our 1st choice.

Last point , think where we'd be without results agst ( who we have a dismal record agst ) Spurs , Liverpool ,Man utd , Chelsea ,Arsenal , Leicester ,Wolves even Spurs in the cup.

Possitives outway the negatives resoundly.
Imagine when he has another window or 2.
 

catcherintherye said:
Most of the teams you mention are poor mate. We will beat Villa twice I think. Spurs and Arsenal are terrible.

After the weekend, we will have played Leicester, Liverpool, United twice. They, along with City are the best teams. City on the final day of the season, hopefully when its wrapped up.

After Saturday, I dont fear anyone until City on that final day.
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That is a quite astonishingly positive take on a team that has won 3 out of 11 games inside 90 minutes in 2021, and hasn’t won any of its last 7 home games against PL opposition over 90 minutes. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but there’s genuinely no reason to believe it other than blind faith.
 
Brennan said:
Villa is debatable, but we’re three points above Arsenal with a game in hand, and we beat them. We have clearly been the better team this season.
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Do you think we will finish above them? I honestly dont. They offer far more going forward, maybe not as good defensively as us, but I think they're nailed on to finish above us.
 
BlueToff said:
I mean we lost Allan and went on to win the next 4/5 league games.

Our issues don't stem from just losing Allan. They stem from not having more than one or two ways of getting to goal, and one of those ways is set-pieces, which we don't win enough of (4 corners in last 5 league games).
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I’ve just looked it up in the league we have beaten Arsenal (at there lowest point) Sheff Utd, Wolves and Leeds since losing Allan, I won’t even mention who we have lost to it’s just to depressing. We miss Allan a lot I mean ALOT.
 

Lanolin said:
That is a quite astonishingly positive take on a team that has won 3 out of 11 games inside 90 minutes in 2021, and hasn’t won any of its last 7 home games against PL opposition over 90 minutes. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but there’s genuinely no reason to believe it other than blind faith.
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Im not sure why wins in the calendar year 2021 is relevant.

As for home games, it’s a duff statistic. We all know why.
 
Deco said:
I thought we were well in it until the moment of class from Mahrez.

Pickford’s shameful attempt at stopping Bernardo’s shot killed us off.

It wasn’t a bad performance, Richarlison looked better again today too.

Win on Saturday and we’re back in business.
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Wow you make it sound so simple, only that it’s Liverpool away we’ve got on Saturday.
 

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