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I don’t think a Poch team has ever given up 6 goals

 

Fucking hell, Tottenham!

 

SEVEN!!

Pochettino may genuinely go.

 

It’s weird we’re getting shat on and I’m not even upset haha

 

OMG

 

They’re just walking around lol Bayern might score 10

 

didnt want to sell him, complicated situation at the time

 

Oh I see

well I wish he would’ve stayed for Emery to use inappropriately. Instead he’s making us look stupid.

 

lol

 

I think we’re really missing a true defensive mid. I love Winks but I don’t think he’s good enough defensively to hold that position. Poch keeps trying this diamond with Winks at the base and it isn’t working. Not having that strong defensive presence in the midfield plus Aurier consistently fucking up at RB and it leaves the rest of the defense in such a tough position.

 

What the fuck Spurs? It was 1-1 last time I checked! What on earth happened?

 

:( bad stuff happened

 

Gnabry happened

 

Was it as case of Spurs being that bad or were Bayern that good? Crazy scoreline, especially at home.

 

I don't think it was intentional but the way Aurier jumped was so weird. I mean, once he is in the air, he obviously cannot change anything and it was unfortunate that Alaba would slide right into the area where he eventually landed. But a different referee might have ruled this a red worthy challenge.

 

so uh

wha hapn?

 

combination. we made mistakes. they had clinical finishes.

 

I'm not convinced Dier is all of the sudden bad now. He had a terrible season of injuries and setbacks and seems to have lost his place. But his presence is missed. Like I said above, our midfield just isn't getting it done defensively. We are loaded with creative/attack-minded guys but none of them should be counted on to play the holding mid role. And Poch keeps putting them in that position. I still love him as manager but he certainly deserves some of the blame for the form we're in.

 

Maybe Vertonghen actually slept with Bayern’s entire squads’ partners

 

Oh man

lad who sits next to me in work is a spurs fan. He got married this weekend. They’re on their honeymoon.

He got THAT as a wedding present.

 

Mauricio Pochettino: "I told you it is going to be a tough season. After the final, a chapter was closed. Now the club needs to open a new chapter. A defeat won't change my opinion. It happens. You need to show how strong you are. We need to be men and bounce back."

I wonder why the team looks disinterested

 

Extremely clinical finishing display looking at the goals. To score seven times from ten shots on target and nineteen attempts overall is very freakish. The lack of pressure on the ball from Spurs makes it easier and getting caught on the break as much as that is poor but that level of finishing is a big anomaly.

Not that it makes it that much less embarrassing.

 

7 cracking goals as well.

 

Poch wants to go, and so do the players. Spurs need wholesale changes. they've fucked their wage bill leaving some players on 3x other players, and the manager clearly thinks he has taken them as far as he can go.

Also Dier is genuinely average as fuck and Poch just made him over perform, and now Poch is struggling we are seeing the true value of players such as him.

 

Like most things wrong with the world, Tony Pulis is to blame.


We sent Gnabry on loan to WBA in the season they got relegated. He was really promising but wanted first team football, and he wasn't going to depose Alexis Sanchez.

Pulis decided he wasn't good enough, despite clearly being their most technically gifted player by a mile and played him three times all season. Alongside that, he apparently was so harsh on Gnabry that Gnabry wanted to go home if he couldn't be promised first team opportunities straight away, and asked Arsenal to sell him back to Germany. We had to sell him for cheap because he wanted to go home so badly.

It's long been rumoured amongst Arsenal fans that Bayern actually stumped up the money for Werder Bremen to buy him, as long as could purchase him the year after.