mr_nool wrote:Foreverinbluedreams wrote:mr_nool wrote:Hazy2 wrote:dazby wrote:Vinnie and the Otter, screened by the two Ferns were impregnable. When Fernando went off we conceded against the run of play.
Otter is a top player. Flawed yes. Error prone, yes. Dives in a bit, yes. But a top player and their aren't too many better. If you can't see that there's not much hope for you.
He is slow, he needs his hand holding and a top player is not a diver, The rules of centre half membership is never ever fucking ever have a pony tail !
That said next year he will have a coach who will pay attention to THE details like team structure with or without the ball. Oh and the second goal was down to him and AK THE JOGGER. not spotting the danger, funny cos 1st rule of a defender is smell danger and deal with it ! Now you can jog on. xx
In all honesty I also thought Kompany had a part in the second goal. One of the two centre backs had to come out to deal with the on-storming Spurs player - you just can't let him go too far and get a shot away. Since Kompany didn't have a player to mark, it should have been him to come out and block the possible shot. He didn't so Otamendi was forced to make a quick and difficult decision. Eriksen was tracked by Kolarov, so do understand his decision to let him go, but in hindsight, he of course shouldn't have.
Don't think either should've stepped out unless Lamela was shaping to shoot, Otter just sold himself down the river.
I watched it again, and you're right. I wasn't aware of how close Fernandinho was to closing Lamela down.
Aside from Yaya losing possession the biggest issue for me was Fernandinho being so far out of position, if he'd been where he should've been then Lamela wouldn't have had that free run through the centre.