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Yup, it's brutal, haering LIv fans today saying Slot blah blah, but 3 games in 6 days, then villa sat night, RM tuesday then City sunday, tough love! Solidity and safety is underrated, but youre right, 2 months or february is maybe a better barometer

Dunno, what would be? think as fans the expectation level is off the charts these days, not just at Tottenham, was in pub earlier talking to mates about the rise of the b clubs, the level has increased massively last five years, the previous given has ceased. It’s just hugely competitive

Still got bb? Cracking team 🙌 benching Grealish a luxury move 🤞

Big respect to Tommy F btw, even more so if he signs Jp in January 😜, he’s gotten u more solid in a short space with out massive outlay, what do the faithful feel?

Maddison out for season

Genuinely wouldn’t surprise me, he’s decent and spurs have a richarlison sized issue, franks is a system manager, and a good one, he fits your team better than a future Chelsea team imo, just a drunken thought

Was a solid move both on owning and fixtures, that he’s turned to pure unadulterated shite is on him not you.

Probably signs for Tottenham in January btw

4 or five at the back is no compromise mate, Munoz or Guehi should be one of the four 👍

A week ago would have not said this, but just see Artetas boys doing 20 cs plus bonus and def con, feels the best way.

Would go triple arsenal defence over attack personally, better value and leaving that space in the mids free for someone who kicks off, Cunha or
Szboz etc

Yea it’s interesting to watch, seeing Brentford dismantle Liverpool through physical and aerial domination was quite the thing, can’t beat VVD on the grass, simple, just make it a lottery by going at pace over his Barnet. The beautiful game eh 😂 arteta’s thinking might be underrated?

Think it’s also a tactical strategy, hence Arteta has been mopping up big physical players for a few years, the game is so structured in the middle that often the only way to break a team down is the aerial dead ball route, champions Liverpool apart 😜

totally agree, not sure what happened with City, watch them 2019/20, they were claustrophobic in how they pressed, suffocated teams at source, now teams have countered that by being more direct and Pep feels out of date, the long throws and corners have become the meta, who saw that coming?

Watch so many premiere league games, its fairly obvious this tactic has become the new norm, defences are so hard to break down, it's just an obvious route

My pleasure dude, excellent post, and one that speaks so truly of this season so far

One thing that's noticeable is how tactically organised the mid teams are, no easy way through Brighton, bournemouth, brentford etc etc, add coaches for set pieces and hey presto!

Man city won the league 5 out of the 6 seasons by having a crazy aggressive press, once that had gone they were floundering

Defences and structures are so solid and tactically astute that creating chaos is the easiest route to a goal

Excellent analysis and video, and as if by magic, the era of long throw in's and set piece chaos leading to unstructured defensive moments, leading to goals has become the biggest goal threat, it's literally the most easy route to goal, not barcelona 2012 style, and Pep is suffering from it

Fixtures equal picks, done it already, that said i have little confidence it will be as good a pick as the fixtures suggest, this season feels like the random haul type, that said, it's good, not seen template mentioned anywhere for a while.

461 lol fat fingers 😂

Agreed, just looking at the top points scored this season shows how random it’s been so far, after the robot and Semenyo it’s all defenders and the likes of Caicedo, be very interesting to see if it stays this way through the season, but 461 or 442 is definitely looking the way to go , or even 541

How is this a known fact, who went round and counted?

Blue lights S3 is elite. Jeez what a show.

@jstyles17.bsky.social 50 points on bench, skill issue 🤞😂

#Esfantasy

Ive gone there, might not last, Set pieces, defcon and organised defences is the meta, so chucked it all on defence from Arsenal.

Bus team 🚌

Tripled up on Arsenal defence
Mainly to allow Bruno/Bryan in mids

One ft to do richarlison out, but may leave it to have two for gw11

Think Evanilson is back soon, but Kroupi allows marines to upgrade either stach or Ndiaye, could also go Thiago but 442 looks the way.

All out for 51

VDV on my bench, plus Porro turned a nice green grey.

Foden, Jp and VVD all gone for Gw 10

Richarlison to Kroupi is imminent

I benched Richarlison as well