the_georgian_genius wrote:Which just shows you the mentality of both sides. Our 534 against spurs was fantastic, nearly 200 more than Spurs and Blackburn's 125 against Everton is pathetic, and half of them were unsuccesful i.e long hopeful balls.
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:the_georgian_genius wrote:Which just shows you the mentality of both sides. Our 534 against spurs was fantastic, nearly 200 more than Spurs and Blackburn's 125 against Everton is pathetic, and half of them were unsuccesful i.e long hopeful balls.
That's extremely derisory. Blackburn won that game with their 'pathetic' passing and we only scraped a draw despite those misleading figures.
If their mentality is to win games and ours is to pass the ball sideways I know whose approach I'd favour!
the_georgian_genius wrote:LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:the_georgian_genius wrote:Which just shows you the mentality of both sides. Our 534 against spurs was fantastic, nearly 200 more than Spurs and Blackburn's 125 against Everton is pathetic, and half of them were unsuccesful i.e long hopeful balls.
That's extremely derisory. Blackburn won that game with their 'pathetic' passing and we only scraped a draw despite those misleading figures.
If their mentality is to win games and ours is to pass the ball sideways I know whose approach I'd favour!
Derisory my arse, It is the truth. 125 passes in the top flight of english football is beyond pathetic, that is just over a pass for every minute.
As for your last line, have a read at what you have put. Their mentality is not to win games, it is to get the ball as far away from their goal and maybe nick a goal with a punt forward causing havoc where as ours is to control the game which 9 times out of 10 will win you the game. If you would rather favour their approach then you are watching the game mate, Sale Sharks kick off soon. Sam Allardyce is a disgrace to football.
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:Why do you have to try and defend your original feeble arguments with snide comments?.
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:Blackburn won: FACT
We drew: FACT
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:I do not 'favour their approach' but you mentioned the 'mentality' of teams in the first post and I'd prefer a winning mentality to that of keeping the ball.
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:As for your comment "control the game which 9 times out of 10 will win you the game" well that is just complete nonsense, what if everyone done this? How can everyone win 9 out of 10? Why have we won 1 out of 3?
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:There seems to be this widespread opinion currently that playing tiki taka football is somehow a more 'pure' way of approaching the game, that's absolute bullshit. You play to your advantages and, against Everton, Blackburn did just that and won the game. ?
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:Spain can win matches passing teams to death, Barca can do the same. Blackburn can't, know they can't and revert to what they know best. Whether we can has yet to be proved.
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