Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come 16:21 - Dec 21 with 1564 views | klg199 | It will be just like us to get something out of them as we tend to put in a performance against the top teams and capitulate in the games where we think we are going to get something. |  | | |  |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:23 - Dec 21 with 1531 views | Trequartista | It still feels that Bournemouth was the end for us despite the wolves win and the table could look pretty painful by January |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:24 - Dec 21 with 1511 views | Ryorry | Jan window only 11 days away, & Axel might be back at end of next month. |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:27 - Dec 21 with 1484 views | Vaughan8 |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:24 - Dec 21 by Ryorry | Jan window only 11 days away, & Axel might be back at end of next month. |
This "Axel will be back" constantly from.people seems a bit desperate. He's not magic. He's not stopping these goals. He's not.going to.score goals. Is he better than Clarke......yes. but he's not a miracle worker. |  | |  |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:31 - Dec 21 with 1427 views | Ryorry |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:27 - Dec 21 by Vaughan8 | This "Axel will be back" constantly from.people seems a bit desperate. He's not magic. He's not stopping these goals. He's not.going to.score goals. Is he better than Clarke......yes. but he's not a miracle worker. |
I'm confident some of the recent goals against us in narrow defeats wouldn't have gone in if he were playing; nor would we be 0-4 currently. |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:36 - Dec 21 with 1397 views | ringwoodblue | I fear our GD is going to suffer considerably after today and the next two games. |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:39 - Dec 21 with 1374 views | Vaughan8 |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:31 - Dec 21 by Ryorry | I'm confident some of the recent goals against us in narrow defeats wouldn't have gone in if he were playing; nor would we be 0-4 currently. |
Which goal would he have stopped today? The complete cock up? The 2 goals that came from the left? I think we're clutching at straws if we think Axel is going to completely.change the outcome.of games. He's played when we've lost before so I don't understand. |  | |  |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:41 - Dec 21 with 1364 views | Ryorry |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:39 - Dec 21 by Vaughan8 | Which goal would he have stopped today? The complete cock up? The 2 goals that came from the left? I think we're clutching at straws if we think Axel is going to completely.change the outcome.of games. He's played when we've lost before so I don't understand. |
Clutching at straws and desperation are mandatory, minimum requirements when you're 0-4 down! |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:43 - Dec 21 with 1325 views | Vaughan8 |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:41 - Dec 21 by Ryorry | Clutching at straws and desperation are mandatory, minimum requirements when you're 0-4 down! |
Yes, but this Axel will be back narrative had been going on for weeks. We actually won a game without him. Half our wins without him. So I don't get it. |  | |  | Login to get fewer ads
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:49 - Dec 21 with 1280 views | Ryorry |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:43 - Dec 21 by Vaughan8 | Yes, but this Axel will be back narrative had been going on for weeks. We actually won a game without him. Half our wins without him. So I don't get it. |
It's alright, you're allowed to not get it |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:55 - Dec 21 with 1244 views | Kievthegreat |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:27 - Dec 21 by Vaughan8 | This "Axel will be back" constantly from.people seems a bit desperate. He's not magic. He's not stopping these goals. He's not.going to.score goals. Is he better than Clarke......yes. but he's not a miracle worker. |
With Axel in the team, we've played 9 games, only lost 3 and picked up 8 points. Without Axel we've played 8 and lost 6 of them, picking up only 4 points. Axel also played in harder fixtures. With Axel we've played the teams currently in 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th and the opposition have an average position of 8.7. Without him we've only faced 2 top half sides (7th and 8th) and have an average position of 13.5. He may not have stopped everything today, we still conceded 4 against City with him in the lineup after all. However I'm pretty confident we'd have picked up several more points with him playing. |  | |  |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:01 - Dec 21 with 1174 views | mrshallisfit |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:24 - Dec 21 by Ryorry | Jan window only 11 days away, & Axel might be back at end of next month. |
We'll have to do better than the summer window. |  | |  |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:01 - Dec 21 with 1172 views | Kievthegreat |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 16:55 - Dec 21 by Kievthegreat | With Axel in the team, we've played 9 games, only lost 3 and picked up 8 points. Without Axel we've played 8 and lost 6 of them, picking up only 4 points. Axel also played in harder fixtures. With Axel we've played the teams currently in 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th and the opposition have an average position of 8.7. Without him we've only faced 2 top half sides (7th and 8th) and have an average position of 13.5. He may not have stopped everything today, we still conceded 4 against City with him in the lineup after all. However I'm pretty confident we'd have picked up several more points with him playing. |
As an extra, if we use the Axel is playing points per game metric (AiPPPG), then if he'd played every game, we'd be out of the relegation zone and level with Everton. |  | |  |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:05 - Dec 21 with 1110 views | Ryorry |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:01 - Dec 21 by mrshallisfit | We'll have to do better than the summer window. |
One thing I'm certain of is that MA will have been working on it already for quite some time. |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:11 - Dec 21 with 1057 views | Chrisd | Unfortunately, we’ll get spanked in those two games. The gulf in class between us and the top sides in this league is just too big to bridge in one season. If we keep it under 4 in each of those games it will be a bonus. |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:44 - Dec 21 with 966 views | strikalite |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:11 - Dec 21 by Chrisd | Unfortunately, we’ll get spanked in those two games. The gulf in class between us and the top sides in this league is just too big to bridge in one season. If we keep it under 4 in each of those games it will be a bonus. |
Sadly can't argue with that, especially given we're without crucial players, I just hope first off we go to Arsenal and just try to shut up shop, if we try and play them how we'd like too it could be worse than today I hate to say.. |  | |  |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:48 - Dec 21 with 943 views | gainsboroughblue |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:11 - Dec 21 by Chrisd | Unfortunately, we’ll get spanked in those two games. The gulf in class between us and the top sides in this league is just too big to bridge in one season. If we keep it under 4 in each of those games it will be a bonus. |
Our hope would be that given the schedule, teams may be more likely to ease off once they establish a lead and save their legs a bit. I may be totally clutching at straws. |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:50 - Dec 21 with 922 views | FrimleyBlue |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:11 - Dec 21 by Chrisd | Unfortunately, we’ll get spanked in those two games. The gulf in class between us and the top sides in this league is just too big to bridge in one season. If we keep it under 4 in each of those games it will be a bonus. |
Hopefully against these top sides we won't play like it's ipswich v exeter and believe little chappers is on par with Cole Palmer. |  |
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Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:54 - Dec 21 with 896 views | badadski |
Only Arsenal and Chelsea to come on 17:50 - Dec 21 by FrimleyBlue | Hopefully against these top sides we won't play like it's ipswich v exeter and believe little chappers is on par with Cole Palmer. |
Today, ok we had injuries but felt like when we tried to go toe to toe with Leeds last season and got spanked. I think we need to learn to manage games better - more defensive midfield set up and try to counter some games. We are getting a little too predictable against the better playing teams who can press with not much worry of us countering. |  | |  |
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