It’s December 21st and we are ready to take on the league leaders in 2 days. Welcome to the latest edition of our show. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz. We’ll talk about United and West Ham, and we look ahead to Arsenal at home and Burnley away.
Part One - the United game:
It was perhaps too good to be true…. They sat deep, the crowd was not as big a factor
‘Two teams played poorly’ One of them had 34 shots and the other a generous xG of .66
Arsenal had 26 shots and were worthy title contenders
Nobody actually said defensive masterclass but you spent 1bn GBP on this?
Should they leave Fernandes (#42) out more often? Guardian’s latest list of 100 best world footballers has him ahead of #44 VVD:()
What could we have done?
Performances weren’t bad - link up play was not optimal
Gravenberch was not to blame as much as Michael Oliver
Jurgen said that we were good in so many ways
A ‘Hairball’ need to be rejected
Part Two - West Ham in the EFL cup:
West Ham were terrible - didn’t show up
They said we needed a performance - isn’t that it?
Isn’t this the formation they used to beat Chelsea and Brighton?
Harvey Elliott , Endo, Quansah, Curtis, Szobozlai, Darwen
Fulham in the next round
Part Three - Arsenal, Burnley and any other business:
Arsenal
‘Liverpool are flawed title challenges’ - not as good as 2019-20
Build up suggests Arsenal have some of the greatest players in the world (#14, #18, # 22). Their results are so scary, are they really?
Formation, predictions
Burnley -
50th anniversary of us losing 2-1 on Boxing Day - Roy Evans played
They aren’t very good are they - looked good in moments, but they do lose in key moments don’t they?
4th anniversary of our Club World Cup
Kieran Trippier (#63) - TAA would have been crucified (#57)
Number of Dewey crushes consumed in this show?
We will be back after the Burnley game. Thanks to Daz. And thank you dear listener for joining us.
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