@@Never_Wr0ng yeah he has taken steps under Arteta but I think these couple of games has been more than steps. I think allowing him to go forward more and letting Thomas do more of the defensive work really serves him well. Great coaching from Arteta and good on Granit for taking the chance!
James, that was not Zinchenko, it was Xhaka. Why I'm pointing out this harmless detail is because that's another huge change in tactics that Arsenal are using now - Xhaka as a box to box midfielder. This allows Zinchenko to do the things he has been as well. Would love to hear your take on all of that.
Ruben was used to devastating effect vs Real Madrid in our 2nd Leg game, as well as in our 6-0 win over Southampton. Winning the mid battle and pinning spurs wingbacks back, was always the key strategy to defeating a Conte team, as he is too heavily reliant and playing direct balls to the front 3, with wingbacks supporting. If you can stop his Wingbacks supporting the forwards, they get isolated. Massive shame our dominant performance didnt get a win, due to some poor finishing in key moments on our part, but most importantly, Taylor assisting them in the key moments. The fact VAR reviewed Cucurella's hair getting pulled and condoned, sets a bad precedent in the league now. Based on this decision, every player should be allowed to do this in the prem now, thats whats being set. Great vid again
Fair complaint that Taylor missed the hair pull, but refs miss things all the time. Can't really complain about VAR unless you are trying to argue that Romero's actions were worthy of a straight red? It's definitely a free kick and a yellow if caught, but it wasn't. Not sure what other assists in 'key moments' you are talking about, there's some complaints about Bentancur's tackle on Havertz but that was completely clean. High quality tackle. Even if it was a foul, it wasn't part of the build-up to the goal. Putting the draw on Taylor is abdicating responsibility from your team for letting 4 of our players be the closest to the ball in the final set piece of the game, where everybody should be putting everything in to it. It's abdicating responsibility for Hojbjerg being left in space in open play. It's also stripping very just praise from our players, who even while being outplayed for the first 55 minutes, held on really well and defended your assaults admirably, it downplays Conte's tactical changes that flipped the flow of the game, and it downplays the strong mentality of our squad to keep coming back and pushing on to the final moments. That final point is symbolised by the 4 of our heads coming to the final corner of the game without a Chelsea player in sight. Spurs wanted the point more than Chelsea wanted to hold the 3, that's the key factor in the result.
@@m123c456r789 dermot Gallagher confirmed earlier today that the hair pull was a red card incident, even if it wasn’t caught by Taylor, var should have gone back to issue a red card and a free kick to Chelsea. I don’t personally understand how you can be allowed to pull someone’s hair with force and still remain on the pitch. Furthermore, both goals came after incidents that, rightfully or otherwise, angered the Chelsea players. This is not a coincidence, it’s clear that teams are vulnerable on psychological level when a major decision goes against them. I don’t think you can blame the Chelsea players’ desire, because they were not in the right headspace to defend a corner following a blatant missed call.
@@m123c456r789 Think you're conflating 2 seperate points, that should be called as a simple foul 2bh. Conte's change had to come considering they did nothing most of the game and ultimately, they benefitted off of luck. For us, it was better for spurs to open up as we were finally able to expose them in the transition, hence why we moved to a 3-4-3 to counter that sometimes luck plays a part, its a shame that it involved poor decision making from the referee tho
The game at the City Ground had only 3 of the starting XI from the playoff final in there. And the difference between yesterday and last week at Newcastle was like night and day. It would have concerned me as a Forest fan but I was confident the electric and vocal crowd helped the squad and Cooper has managed to get something out of a team who has had not much time together. Big praise to Lewis O'Brien who looked like he was an established Premier League footballer and not a fresh face. The admin and media team have been on 🔥with announcement videos
Think you should have gone over the tactical changes in the spurs and chelsea game, thought that was the most interesting thing about it. Both spurs and chelsea changed their formation in the second half
Reece James’ ability to play like 3 positions, pocket both Kane and Son and grab what should’ve been the winning goal was outstanding. All at the age of 22, what a player they’ve got there
Trent obviously has that killer cross and is a playmaker from RB but Reece James is such an all round player. He literally doesn't have a single weakness to his game, one of the most complete footballers in the Prem right now and he'll only get better.
English referees have always been the drizzling shits. Michael Oliver is the only one I'd trust to get it right on a regular basis, and even then... Also, Anthony Taylor is going to the World Cup. Lord help us all.
As a Leeds fan it’s the lack of substitutions that killed us, can use five subs this season and left it far too late.. seriously believe we keep hold of that lead if Marsch gets the subs right in terms of personnel and timing
People don’t realise that RLC played RWB last season in a few games. I think more than a few but I can’t remember the exact number so I’ll just say a few. And we know where RLC’s home is, he’s just constantly played out of position. He’s only been played in his favoured position under one manager, Sarri. He’s an 8, and he prefers the left side. Ever since Sarri left we’ve been playing with a back 3, and he was also injured. He’s not a winger, he isn’t a 6, he isn’t a striker (where Conte and Parker tried to play him because he’s tall maybe?). He’s played all of these positions in his career, and does well out wide because he’s a really good dribbler and is quick. But he is an attacking 8.
He wasn't good. Did you see how he missed giving Tuchel his automatic second yellow for running into the Spurs technical area after Chelsea's second goal?
It was 35 degrees, Harrison and others were dead on their feet and he never made any changes until last 7 minutes I think, he should have made changes much sooner. But he has admitted that and I'm sure he will resolve it again. Impressed with the energy in the team, we will be fine this year Leeds
I find that really strange as I remember reading pre match comments from Marsch saying that he would use his experience of playing and managing in the hot southern States of the MLS to combat the heat he knew they were going to be playing in so we'll have to wait and see if this situation ever comes round again if he has learnt his lesson
Yeah Harrison was absolutely shattered, would have liked to have seen Forshaw, Klich and Sini earlier like you say. Strange as he made the changes that won the game last week, but didn't make them this!
As a forest fan, although we definitely had luck on our side, I thought we were far better than last week. I think awoniyi made a big difference and gave us a better outlet.
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I called the Brentford win, knew De Gea wouldn’t be able to play ten Haag ball, honestly think if they keep this up Brentford will make top half of the table
I don't think Leeds will struggle to hold on to games as much as you may think... Marsch had poor game management and after the match admitted he made mistakes not making changes earlier. I don't think it will be a reoccurring thing.
On southampton. We played shockingly for the first 60. That period plus the first game had me very concerned for the drop. Then as soon as Ralph finally adjusted things to the trusty 4222 we looked incredible. I'm hoping it's a positive sign of things to come
The criticism against Ten Hag wanting to play out the back is similar to what Arteta got in his first year at Arsenal. It's a style of play that he wanted to use and eventually had to retool his centre-backs in order to play with that style. Arsenal was patient with Arteta but I don't know if Man U and its fans are willing to be patient with Ten Hag.
As a Southampton fan from Australia I was happy with the draw in the end I think if we go back to the 4-2-2-2 it suits us better Bella-kotchap looked good in defence and Lavia I think will be good in midfield and going forward we need Mara to hopefully produce the way broja did last season but for aribo to help in that area he has all the ability in the world plus it’s the best game I’ve seen djenepo play since coming to the club PS: love the channel mate keep up the good work👍
The bit around 26:30 with James talking about Saints struggling to hold onto Leeds/leads and Leeds potentially struggling to hold onto Leeds/leads as well had me cracking up.
The revisionism about Spurs based solely on the scoreline is unacceptable, Spurs were shocking in that game and if not for two clear fouls that weren't called it would've stayed 2-0, maybe 2-1 if you really want to give them the benefit of the doubt, no way do they have any additional mettle, at least that we can genuinely measure from this game, time will tell.
You’re right, we were absolutely dreadful. However, Chelsea away is not a good metric for our development. We have an absolutely dreadful record at Stamford Bridge and it doesn’t matter if we’re absolutely flying in the league and Chelsea are struggling (see 2016) we always struggle in that fixture. It’s just a really difficult match and always will be so no I don’t think us struggling in the game yesterday is particularly indicative of how our season goes.
@@atrlawes98 yup. I hate to say it but Spurs will be good this season and games away at Chelsea are an exception because for some reason they always shit the bed there. Hopefully as an Arsenal fan we edge you guys out for that 4th/3rd spot though
@@atrlawes98 that's exactly what I'm trying to say with time will tell, you guys are always crap at the bridge so it's not actually a good show of your team in general, I certainly wouldn't call this a defining performance at least
James, Spurs found a way by absolutely shocking officiating. Not really from anything they did in the game. It feels like a bit of outcome bias. They were outclassed from start to finish
Tottenham are a title threat, but if they take points like they did last season from city and liverpool i think they are challengers. i expect them to be better this season against lower table teams and a whole season with kulusevski(who was massive after they signed him) will be very helpful to that
Leeds fan here, the reason we lost the lead is because we needed subs the heat and the intensity off the game took the wind out of our players especially the likes of Harrison and Rodrigo. We needed to make subs earlier and needed to keep pressing and not sit back and invite pressure.
Leeds Fan - drop off in second half was down to two things. 1) losing bamford and not having an out and out striker to replace him (replaced with James) meant that we lost the option to have someone to hold up the ball and allow other player to advance. 2) March didnt manage the game as intended. the team were depleted of energy due to the high pressing approach in the heat and didnt make the subs when he should have done. our subs were ultimately reactive opposed to being proactive. I think if we have introduced fresh legs immediately after our second goal or at least after Southamptons first goal we would have held on for the win. March needs to take learning from this, LEeds also need to go out and buy another striker as competition for Bamford as its clear his body will not hold up for the full season.
How is every one spinning this into heroic tottenham comeback at the bridge???? They were one step removed from being completely dominated, and only comeback cause Anthony Taylor gets a hard on by making the wrong decision
exactly lol the media are twerking for them so much, if that was any other team they would be criticised so badly. Just shows the standards people hold them to lol
Because we’re historically known for not holding onto points and we did actually have more shots on target than chelsea and we’re only .5 Xg behind. Chelsea fans rage at the refs and pride in their own performance (both of which are fair) are obscuring this. Spurs lost the midfield battle completely but were effective in both boxes nonetheless. Just cos you cede possession doesn’t mean you’re getting dominated
That's why I said people need to beworried about Arsenal. Thr patterns of play are things you wouldn't even really think about. You don't know what they're going to do on the ball and all they needed was a quality mobile striker to help take them to that next place.
Huge Marsch fan but I think he has a lot of blame to take for this game unfortunately. Made a lot of good changes against Wolves in the second half and went on to win it, didnt do the same in this game or definitely waited too long whereas Southampton didn't and it showed. Leeds players looked knackered from the heat!
If there are any Forest fans, I'd love to hear what you think the strongest XI will be once everyone is settled in. I understand your squad needed depth, but having Dennis, Maupay, Johnson, and Awoniyi (also Surridge but surely he's 5th choice) competing for 2 starting spots is a bit strange to me. Should be an exciting season for you!
I appreciate that you want to give spurs credit but I’m honestly baffled how no one in a punditry line is going in on the officiating in this game. I honestly think if this was Liverpool vs spurs and a ref did this they’d be so much more uproar its a joke!
I have seen a lot of pundits talk about the ref, dont really know why you’re talking about. Espn, sky, talksport and so on all address it. And many more
@@gameofghost5762 Not what i meant. Im saying that everyone is talking about it, even pundits. You have a right to complain cause the ref was horrible, and pundits are not ignoring it.
@@jennywendt3302 James in this video literally doesn’t even touch on the officiating so no not everyone is talking about it. I know I sound like a bitter fan but how else will it get solved if u just brush over it?
A year ago we lose that game 3-0 or more. We were second best for a majority of the game and played poorly. The fact we still pulled a result and stayed mentally strong is very positive. I’ll take a point at the bridge any day of the week.
A massive factor in us (Leeds) bottling it is Jesse refused to make any changes until 2-2 when he should have brought on players in the 60th minute when it was still 2-0, 2nd goal we conceded was because Harrison was knackered and went to ground way too early
I get your point, devil's advocate is they normally get stomped by Chelsea and took 4th last year. Even being dramatically outplayed by them, Chelsea barely had opportunities to score, and they got the tie. Albeit with some AT assistance.
Because us struggling at Stamford Bridge is a story as old as time and happens even when Chelsea have finished well below Spurs. Doesn’t matter how good we are we always seem to struggle there, difference is that this time we came away with a point whereas usually we’d just get battered.
@@kessenichp chelsea had more opportunities to score in that game than they had in any game played since Real Madrid away. We barely create chances, but we did yesterday.
Giving ole credit for what he did with this squad is criminal. His signings of Maguire, AWB, Dan James etc are all defensive players built to sit deep and counter attack. That combined with making Mctominay his main man is why Utd are in this position now
@@RafaelOliveira-tu7ke no we dont have good squad. apparently liverpool is the one who has the best manager in the world, the best centre back, the best midfielder, the best left back right back, the best wingers, the best strikers, the best starting XI 👀
Not to take anything away from James, but his goal and big chance created came from when he was rwb, so he wasnt really “pulling the strings from rcb” in that way
I would say, despite being a Brentford fan, that Jensen is not the greatest in terms of dribbling the ball, but his work off the ball, tactically was beautiful.
If all 19 other teams get done for breaking FFP rules and have points deductions that would take them to negative points no matter how well they do then Manchester United could still win the league. I can't see any way in which that could possibly happen but it works as a hypothetical
As a spurs fan agree about the Bentancur point. We really need to start Bissouma over hojbjerg soon to relieve Benta of the responsibility to move the ball up pitch solely on his own
I was told to come into the game expecting a different Tottenham than the one Chelsea played last season four times and beat four times quite handily… and it was the same Tottenham? Unfortunately it was also the same Anthony Taylor.
Nobody will challenge the league aside from Liverpool/City. The only time anyone else can challenge will be if City or Liverpool have loads of injuries or if Pep/Klopp leave. Their squads are so far ahead of anyone else's.
Most interesting thing to me was Spurs didn't do what they normally do when their a goal down their heads used to drop and just lose it, I remember Conte said early when he went there, an important thing they needed to learn is : if you can't win a game don't lose it. This was a real test. Their boogeyman is Chelsea, much like Spurs are Man city's. Normally Spurs would lose this game and not be trying till the last moment to win , yesterday was different. Conte is changing things.
lets be realthe reason they didnt lose that was the refs. Spurs did well to keep in the game but it was reffing mistakes that got them the draw. It wasnt the Conte factor. Imagine if Xhaka had pulled someone's hair like that...
Love this series. Still don't get the Reece James opinion here though? He played aggressive RCB for most of the game - free reign to go and hit Son/Kane when they dropped into midfield. Moved to RWB when Azpi came on after Spurs equalised (messing up the use of heat map/average position) James played such a key tactical role here and really gives a blueprint for how to stop Spurs attack
I fail to understand how the best league in the world has officials that feel its fine to pull a player down by the hair but it's a red card if you move your head slightly towards another player during a confrontation.
Leeds biggest problem was not using subs. Southampton did and freshened it up and looked dangerous, we didn’t yet it was blindingly obvious players looked dead on their feet in the heat. We waited until it was 2-2 to freshen team up and by then it was too late
Leeds fan here, I honestly feel like our players just got tired, it was an extra warm day and Jesse didn't do any substitutions (other than Bamford in the first half) until the 83rd minute. At that point, Southampton had already made 4 if I remember correctly. I hope Jesse will start to use substitutions earlier in the game.
Regarding the Leeds game. Conceding the two goals in the second half did not come as a result of losing Bamford or style of play. It came due to Jessie March not making the right substitutions early enough. Players where totally knackered and needed to be subbed earlier. However a fit Bamford on the pitch would have led to Leeds scoring another goal imo.
Watching the Leeds game I think we deserved to win tbh, Bamford loss didn’t help but we still created decent chances. Think we just ran out of energy and waited too long to make subs, already 2-2 by the time Marsch made his first sub excluding the bamford sub, had around 10 mins between their 2 goals where we could’ve brought on fresh legs and ultimately paid the price by not doing so! Would’ve taken a point away before the game but disappointed to not take all 3 in the end.
Think Marsch might have been in 2 minds what to do as he'd normally have taken Rodrigo off for Klich to sure it up a bit, but with no Bammy and Joffy it would have been more of a shuffle. Would have liked to have seen Sini and Forshaw come on after their 1st goal, Harrison played well again but was obviously knackered
@@jloky.x yeah deffo needed something after their first goal, with all their strikers coming on with fresh legs, we needed some sort of reaction subs wise. Just thought Jesse left it too late
Chelsea played the best football I've seen from a chelsea team in a long time. It was a back three in defence but 4222 going forward, RLC at rm and James at right back, and Mount looked good at lm
@@jdrummerdd And those two goals were more than enough to win the game if not for Anthony Taylor's match fixing. Come to think of it, Chelsea played out of their skins to hold a draw against 13 men including Mike Dean on VAR. Still, a point at Stamford Bridge. Warra trophy for Spuds.
@@jdrummerdd The team is not finished yet, but that performance shows that they will be a force this season. Clearly needs at least one more forward. It would be strange if the team peaked now when they have made so many changes, with more changes to come before the window closes.
They played better football in November 2021 when they were beating teams 3 and 4 nil, just before Chilwell got injured against Juventus. The performance against Spurs was very good, but did not produce enough goals. I think they will be stronger this season as Tuchel is now getting his own team. A couple more forwards, and they will be a serious team.
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If United are insisting on playing Maguire, they should do what Rafael Benitez did with David Luiz when he was at Chelsea. Play Maguire or one of the CB's as the number 6 purely for defensive capabilities and just to plug the leak..
Leicester fan too, I like rodge but get the feeling he’s lost his desire to succeed with all the injuries over the past couple seasons and this transfer window, wouldn’t be surprised if he starts to look for a way out soon. By no means rodge out but we definitely need an injection of energy from somewhere
@@Nickc101t yeah mate things have gone stale and the injuries have contributed to that. Feel as though Rodgers has lost the nice vibe from when everyone was fit and now with all the inconsistency that the injuries have brought, the overall motivation and ambition from everyone at the club (namely Rodgers) has stalled. Not qualifying for Europe has meant the squad has become unsettled from players being more receptive to a move like Fofana or Maddison, to players actually leaving such as schmeichel and to players who we don’t need such as vestegaard sticking around for the pay check. Due to all this it feels as though for all parties a refresh is likely and could even go as far as to say it’s needed and a good idea 🤷🏼♂️
@@MattRobson1 I agree definitely need a refresh and it’s a tricky one because the only way I see that happening is a new manager but Rodgers definitely doesn’t deserve the sack and it’d probably be too expensive to sack him anyway
@@Nickc101t yeah something like £20m to sack him lol and yeah seems unfair to sack him when he’s not really done anything wrong but at the same time it would help refresh things
Ten Hag should change the system to suit the personnel for the time being. Stop the bleeding. Then after a few transfer windows, start playing how he wants. Look at what Arteta did at Arsenal. You can't just suddenly make a team play from the back with De Gea and Maguire. Not sure if he will though. I have heard that he is uncompromising in how he wants to play.
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As an Arsenal fan if Anthony Taylor had done that to us it would ruin my week. That David Luiz red against wolves still hurts my soul
I remember the day clearly. It still hurts. How can running give you a red?
I broke my remote that day 🤣🤣🤣
@@blooooblaaa i think about it often
For Arsenal, the player running into the box from Saka's cross is not Zinchenko its Xhaka suprisingly!
yeah, when Xhaka move up, Zinchenko will fill in the LCM spot behind Xhaka.
Xhaka seems rejuvenated this season and I love to see it, he was fantastic against Leicester!
@@dudeno3182 *since last season. Infact since Arteta showed up.
@@Never_Wr0ng yeah he has taken steps under Arteta but I think these couple of games has been more than steps. I think allowing him to go forward more and letting Thomas do more of the defensive work really serves him well. Great coaching from Arteta and good on Granit for taking the chance!
James, that was not Zinchenko, it was Xhaka. Why I'm pointing out this harmless detail is because that's another huge change in tactics that Arsenal are using now - Xhaka as a box to box midfielder. This allows Zinchenko to do the things he has been as well. Would love to hear your take on all of that.
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This comment made me realize I wasn’t even subscribed when I thought I was lol. I just appreciate James’s content a lot, very insightful.
Ruben was used to devastating effect vs Real Madrid in our 2nd Leg game, as well as in our 6-0 win over Southampton. Winning the mid battle and pinning spurs wingbacks back, was always the key strategy to defeating a Conte team, as he is too heavily reliant and playing direct balls to the front 3, with wingbacks supporting. If you can stop his Wingbacks supporting the forwards, they get isolated.
Massive shame our dominant performance didnt get a win, due to some poor finishing in key moments on our part, but most importantly, Taylor assisting them in the key moments. The fact VAR reviewed Cucurella's hair getting pulled and condoned, sets a bad precedent in the league now. Based on this decision, every player should be allowed to do this in the prem now, thats whats being set.
Great vid again
Do you think he'll be used/be effective against 4-at-the-back sides?
The hair pull was unreal, still baffled how we its a retake when the ref is looking straight at it in replay and var no where to be seen
Fair complaint that Taylor missed the hair pull, but refs miss things all the time. Can't really complain about VAR unless you are trying to argue that Romero's actions were worthy of a straight red? It's definitely a free kick and a yellow if caught, but it wasn't. Not sure what other assists in 'key moments' you are talking about, there's some complaints about Bentancur's tackle on Havertz but that was completely clean. High quality tackle. Even if it was a foul, it wasn't part of the build-up to the goal.
Putting the draw on Taylor is abdicating responsibility from your team for letting 4 of our players be the closest to the ball in the final set piece of the game, where everybody should be putting everything in to it. It's abdicating responsibility for Hojbjerg being left in space in open play. It's also stripping very just praise from our players, who even while being outplayed for the first 55 minutes, held on really well and defended your assaults admirably, it downplays Conte's tactical changes that flipped the flow of the game, and it downplays the strong mentality of our squad to keep coming back and pushing on to the final moments. That final point is symbolised by the 4 of our heads coming to the final corner of the game without a Chelsea player in sight. Spurs wanted the point more than Chelsea wanted to hold the 3, that's the key factor in the result.
@@m123c456r789 dermot Gallagher confirmed earlier today that the hair pull was a red card incident, even if it wasn’t caught by Taylor, var should have gone back to issue a red card and a free kick to Chelsea. I don’t personally understand how you can be allowed to pull someone’s hair with force and still remain on the pitch. Furthermore, both goals came after incidents that, rightfully or otherwise, angered the Chelsea players. This is not a coincidence, it’s clear that teams are vulnerable on psychological level when a major decision goes against them. I don’t think you can blame the Chelsea players’ desire, because they were not in the right headspace to defend a corner following a blatant missed call.
@@m123c456r789 Think you're conflating 2 seperate points, that should be called as a simple foul 2bh. Conte's change had to come considering they did nothing most of the game and ultimately, they benefitted off of luck. For us, it was better for spurs to open up as we were finally able to expose them in the transition, hence why we moved to a 3-4-3 to counter that
sometimes luck plays a part, its a shame that it involved poor decision making from the referee tho
I love this series, James. This is the perfect place to get an idea of where every team is at. Thanks for the hard work, and keep them coming!
The game at the City Ground had only 3 of the starting XI from the playoff final in there. And the difference between yesterday and last week at Newcastle was like night and day. It would have concerned me as a Forest fan but I was confident the electric and vocal crowd helped the squad and Cooper has managed to get something out of a team who has had not much time together. Big praise to Lewis O'Brien who looked like he was an established Premier League footballer and not a fresh face.
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Think you should have gone over the tactical changes in the spurs and chelsea game, thought that was the most interesting thing about it. Both spurs and chelsea changed their formation in the second half
Reece James’ ability to play like 3 positions, pocket both Kane and Son and grab what should’ve been the winning goal was outstanding. All at the age of 22, what a player they’ve got there
Trent obviously has that killer cross and is a playmaker from RB but Reece James is such an all round player. He literally doesn't have a single weakness to his game, one of the most complete footballers in the Prem right now and he'll only get better.
And he gets only 7 points in fantasy -_-
Should have done better with the equaliser though
@@kimib0g he loves a yellow card.
@@johnproton259 Unfortunately XD
We've learnt that Anthony Taylor and Mike Dean need to be investigated for incompetence at best and match fixing at worst for that Cucurella decision.
English referees have always been the drizzling shits. Michael Oliver is the only one I'd trust to get it right on a regular basis, and even then...
Also, Anthony Taylor is going to the World Cup. Lord help us all.
Did Taylor go over and look for the second decision or was it purely from the VAR ref?
It's not match fixing, just mistakes. Happens to everyone
@@luisramirez2548 Aw mate, you're not seriously going to try and convince me that Anthony Taylor isn't a complete moron.
Try playing in the championship
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As a Leeds fan it’s the lack of substitutions that killed us, can use five subs this season and left it far too late.. seriously believe we keep hold of that lead if Marsch gets the subs right in terms of personnel and timing
Absolutely love you Jim, this series is genuinely perfect
People don’t realise that RLC played RWB last season in a few games. I think more than a few but I can’t remember the exact number so I’ll just say a few.
And we know where RLC’s home is, he’s just constantly played out of position. He’s only been played in his favoured position under one manager, Sarri. He’s an 8, and he prefers the left side. Ever since Sarri left we’ve been playing with a back 3, and he was also injured. He’s not a winger, he isn’t a 6, he isn’t a striker (where Conte and Parker tried to play him because he’s tall maybe?). He’s played all of these positions in his career, and does well out wide because he’s a really good dribbler and is quick. But he is an attacking 8.
That Anthony Taylor needs to never ref us again
I'm not a Chelsea fan but the refereeing decisions were shocking.
I’m sure you’re fine with him not giving Reece James two yellow cards eh😉
He wasn't good. Did you see how he missed giving Tuchel his automatic second yellow for running into the Spurs technical area after Chelsea's second goal?
@@ks_thfc6699 I'm sure you're fine with him not calling fouls on Bentacur and Romero, resulting in 2 goals eh😉
@@danilonikolic4188 obviously he is. They drew. You lot are ignoring the fact that Anthony Taylor face shit decisions both ways.
It was 35 degrees, Harrison and others were dead on their feet and he never made any changes until last 7 minutes I think, he should have made changes much sooner. But he has admitted that and I'm sure he will resolve it again. Impressed with the energy in the team, we will be fine this year Leeds
I find that really strange as I remember reading pre match comments from Marsch saying that he would use his experience of playing and managing in the hot southern States of the MLS to combat the heat he knew they were going to be playing in so we'll have to wait and see if this situation ever comes round again if he has learnt his lesson
Yeah Harrison was absolutely shattered, would have liked to have seen Forshaw, Klich and Sini earlier like you say. Strange as he made the changes that won the game last week, but didn't make them this!
totally, insane not to make sub till 88th min
As a forest fan, although we definitely had luck on our side, I thought we were far better than last week. I think awoniyi made a big difference and gave us a better outlet.
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I called the Brentford win, knew De Gea wouldn’t be able to play ten Haag ball, honestly think if they keep this up Brentford will make top half of the table
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I don't think Leeds will struggle to hold on to games as much as you may think... Marsch had poor game management and after the match admitted he made mistakes not making changes earlier. I don't think it will be a reoccurring thing.
On southampton. We played shockingly for the first 60. That period plus the first game had me very concerned for the drop. Then as soon as Ralph finally adjusted things to the trusty 4222 we looked incredible. I'm hoping it's a positive sign of things to come
The criticism against Ten Hag wanting to play out the back is similar to what Arteta got in his first year at Arsenal. It's a style of play that he wanted to use and eventually had to retool his centre-backs in order to play with that style. Arsenal was patient with Arteta but I don't know if Man U and its fans are willing to be patient with Ten Hag.
As a Southampton fan from Australia I was happy with the draw in the end I think if we go back to the 4-2-2-2 it suits us better Bella-kotchap looked good in defence and Lavia I think will be good in midfield and going forward we need Mara to hopefully produce the way broja did last season but for aribo to help in that area he has all the ability in the world plus it’s the best game I’ve seen djenepo play since coming to the club
PS: love the channel mate keep up the good work👍
So frustrating being a Leeds fan after it! You really didn't look good with the 3atb, definitely much better in the 4222 that your players are used to
The bit around 26:30 with James talking about Saints struggling to hold onto Leeds/leads and Leeds potentially struggling to hold onto Leeds/leads as well had me cracking up.
Great stuff as usual Jimbo keep up the phenomenal work
The revisionism about Spurs based solely on the scoreline is unacceptable, Spurs were shocking in that game and if not for two clear fouls that weren't called it would've stayed 2-0, maybe 2-1 if you really want to give them the benefit of the doubt, no way do they have any additional mettle, at least that we can genuinely measure from this game, time will tell.
You’re right, we were absolutely dreadful. However, Chelsea away is not a good metric for our development. We have an absolutely dreadful record at Stamford Bridge and it doesn’t matter if we’re absolutely flying in the league and Chelsea are struggling (see 2016) we always struggle in that fixture. It’s just a really difficult match and always will be so no I don’t think us struggling in the game yesterday is particularly indicative of how our season goes.
@@atrlawes98 yup. I hate to say it but Spurs will be good this season and games away at Chelsea are an exception because for some reason they always shit the bed there. Hopefully as an Arsenal fan we edge you guys out for that 4th/3rd spot though
@@atrlawes98 cop out
@@atrlawes98 that's exactly what I'm trying to say with time will tell, you guys are always crap at the bridge so it's not actually a good show of your team in general, I certainly wouldn't call this a defining performance at least
100% agreed, that game was a disgrace to the league. Spurs were shocking.
James, Spurs found a way by absolutely shocking officiating. Not really from anything they did in the game. It feels like a bit of outcome bias. They were outclassed from start to finish
Outcome bias at it's finest, people see the scoreline and suddenly the story is Spurs were brave warriors with a winning mentality who found a way : /
Flav is rubbing off on him lol
Tottenham are a title threat, but if they take points like they did last season from city and liverpool i think they are challengers. i expect them to be better this season against lower table teams and a whole season with kulusevski(who was massive after they signed him) will be very helpful to that
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They got FM'd. Made me smile, such a true and brilliant description of that type of game.
Leeds fan here, the reason we lost the lead is because we needed subs the heat and the intensity off the game took the wind out of our players especially the likes of Harrison and Rodrigo. We needed to make subs earlier and needed to keep pressing and not sit back and invite pressure.
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Leeds Fan - drop off in second half was down to two things. 1) losing bamford and not having an out and out striker to replace him (replaced with James) meant that we lost the option to have someone to hold up the ball and allow other player to advance. 2) March didnt manage the game as intended. the team were depleted of energy due to the high pressing approach in the heat and didnt make the subs when he should have done. our subs were ultimately reactive opposed to being proactive. I think if we have introduced fresh legs immediately after our second goal or at least after Southamptons first goal we would have held on for the win. March needs to take learning from this, LEeds also need to go out and buy another striker as competition for Bamford as its clear his body will not hold up for the full season.
How is every one spinning this into heroic tottenham comeback at the bridge???? They were one step removed from being completely dominated, and only comeback cause Anthony Taylor gets a hard on by making the wrong decision
exactly lol the media are twerking for them so much, if that was any other team they would be criticised so badly. Just shows the standards people hold them to lol
Because we’re historically known for not holding onto points and we did actually have more shots on target than chelsea and we’re only .5 Xg behind. Chelsea fans rage at the refs and pride in their own performance (both of which are fair) are obscuring this. Spurs lost the midfield battle completely but were effective in both boxes nonetheless. Just cos you cede possession doesn’t mean you’re getting dominated
@@nope2dat they got carved up for an hour I'm not trying to hear it. Got gifted goals by the ref and won't change my mind. Have a blessed life
That's why I said people need to beworried about Arsenal. Thr patterns of play are things you wouldn't even really think about. You don't know what they're going to do on the ball and all they needed was a quality mobile striker to help take them to that next place.
Huge Marsch fan but I think he has a lot of blame to take for this game unfortunately. Made a lot of good changes against Wolves in the second half and went on to win it, didnt do the same in this game or definitely waited too long whereas Southampton didn't and it showed. Leeds players looked knackered from the heat!
If there are any Forest fans, I'd love to hear what you think the strongest XI will be once everyone is settled in.
I understand your squad needed depth, but having Dennis, Maupay, Johnson, and Awoniyi (also Surridge but surely he's 5th choice) competing for 2 starting spots is a bit strange to me.
Should be an exciting season for you!
I love the fact that you have Ricky Gervais/ David Brent type comedy in your podcasts. its great!! keep it up ;)
Love you James, but that back post run was Xhaka I just feel like he deserves the credit for how he’s playing so far
He looks 5-6 years younger all of a sudden
Best football channel. Honestly unrivalled.
Here he is 🙌🏼
That was actually Xhaka running into the box. Arteta has turned him into a box to box monster.
Just one game but it's promising.
As someone who is just finishing learning to drive, your Arsenal analogy was absolutely spot on.
Thank you for uploading! I really needed this
I appreciate that you want to give spurs credit but I’m honestly baffled how no one in a punditry line is going in on the officiating in this game. I honestly think if this was Liverpool vs spurs and a ref did this they’d be so much more uproar its a joke!
I have seen a lot of pundits talk about the ref, dont really know why you’re talking about. Espn, sky, talksport and so on all address it. And many more
The swedish pundits went in on the refs lol
@@jennywendt3302 I mean the whole outcome is down to this refs decisions so why wouldn’t I talk about it?
@@gameofghost5762 Not what i meant. Im saying that everyone is talking about it, even pundits. You have a right to complain cause the ref was horrible, and pundits are not ignoring it.
@@jennywendt3302 James in this video literally doesn’t even touch on the officiating so no not everyone is talking about it. I know I sound like a bitter fan but how else will it get solved if u just brush over it?
A year ago we lose that game 3-0 or more. We were second best for a majority of the game and played poorly. The fact we still pulled a result and stayed mentally strong is very positive. I’ll take a point at the bridge any day of the week.
Neco Williams was a nice buy from Liverpool to Forrest. He made a nice cross in the Newcastle match as well.
Sekou mara looked insane
A massive factor in us (Leeds) bottling it is Jesse refused to make any changes until 2-2 when he should have brought on players in the 60th minute when it was still 2-0, 2nd goal we conceded was because Harrison was knackered and went to ground way too early
in the first arsenal clip thats xhaka not zinny
Did he watch the Tottenham match, how could you see that match and think Spurs are title challengers
I get your point, devil's advocate is they normally get stomped by Chelsea and took 4th last year. Even being dramatically outplayed by them, Chelsea barely had opportunities to score, and they got the tie. Albeit with some AT assistance.
Because us struggling at Stamford Bridge is a story as old as time and happens even when Chelsea have finished well below Spurs. Doesn’t matter how good we are we always seem to struggle there, difference is that this time we came away with a point whereas usually we’d just get battered.
@@kessenichp chelsea had more opportunities to score in that game than they had in any game played since Real Madrid away. We barely create chances, but we did yesterday.
How can u watch the Liverpool Fulham match and say they are title contenders?
Giving ole credit for what he did with this squad is criminal. His signings of Maguire, AWB, Dan James etc are all defensive players built to sit deep and counter attack. That combined with making Mctominay his main man is why Utd are in this position now
Even if man united swapped their entire squad with Man City they still wouldn’t win the league
Nah they would. That city squad is just to good.
@@RafaelOliveira-tu7ke no we dont have good squad. apparently liverpool is the one who has the best manager in the world, the best centre back, the best midfielder, the best left back right back, the best wingers, the best strikers, the best starting XI 👀
Not to take anything away from James, but his goal and big chance created came from when he was rwb, so he wasnt really “pulling the strings from rcb” in that way
Been here before 50000 subs James and never stopped watching your content
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I am so pleased to find this, I instantly subscribed.
I would say, despite being a Brentford fan, that Jensen is not the greatest in terms of dribbling the ball, but his work off the ball, tactically was beautiful.
If all 19 other teams get done for breaking FFP rules and have points deductions that would take them to negative points no matter how well they do then Manchester United could still win the league. I can't see any way in which that could possibly happen but it works as a hypothetical
Loz calling the Conte/Tuchel conflict was one of the best things I’ve seen
As a spurs fan agree about the Bentancur point. We really need to start Bissouma over hojbjerg soon to relieve Benta of the responsibility to move the ball up pitch solely on his own
This guys is good observer. I will going to subscribe for this channel.
It's simple for united, put McTominay at centre half & play martinez infront, helping screen the defense and move play forwards. It just makes sense.
I was told to come into the game expecting a different Tottenham than the one Chelsea played last season four times and beat four times quite handily… and it was the same Tottenham? Unfortunately it was also the same Anthony Taylor.
Nobody will challenge the league aside from Liverpool/City. The only time anyone else can challenge will be if City or Liverpool have loads of injuries or if Pep/Klopp leave. Their squads are so far ahead of anyone else's.
Most interesting thing to me was Spurs didn't do what they normally do when their a goal down their heads used to drop and just lose it, I remember Conte said early when he went there, an important thing they needed to learn is : if you can't win a game don't lose it. This was a real test. Their boogeyman is Chelsea, much like Spurs are Man city's. Normally Spurs would lose this game and not be trying till the last moment to win , yesterday was different. Conte is changing things.
lets be realthe reason they didnt lose that was the refs. Spurs did well to keep in the game but it was reffing mistakes that got them the draw. It wasnt the Conte factor. Imagine if Xhaka had pulled someone's hair like that...
Love this series. Still don't get the Reece James opinion here though? He played aggressive RCB for most of the game - free reign to go and hit Son/Kane when they dropped into midfield. Moved to RWB when Azpi came on after Spurs equalised (messing up the use of heat map/average position)
James played such a key tactical role here and really gives a blueprint for how to stop Spurs attack
Love this series so far!
I fail to understand how the best league in the world has officials that feel its fine to pull a player down by the hair but it's a red card if you move your head slightly towards another player during a confrontation.
Leeds biggest problem was not using subs. Southampton did and freshened it up and looked dangerous, we didn’t yet it was blindingly obvious players looked dead on their feet in the heat. We waited until it was 2-2 to freshen team up and by then it was too late
Will there be a second part to this? Not all the clubs have been covered.
Leeds fan here, I honestly feel like our players just got tired, it was an extra warm day and Jesse didn't do any substitutions (other than Bamford in the first half) until the 83rd minute. At that point, Southampton had already made 4 if I remember correctly. I hope Jesse will start to use substitutions earlier in the game.
James you’re turning into Gary Neville at this moment in time.
Gabriel Jesus has made me a happy FPL manager 🤣
"Someone's going to get pumped hard"
Thought i came to the wrong channel for a second 😂
"No... I won't skip straight to the Villa game! I'll listed patiently to what James has to say about ALL of the weekend's games!" 🤦🏻♂️
I’ll always remember your sacrifice James 👊🏼
Regarding the Leeds game. Conceding the two goals in the second half did not come as a result of losing Bamford or style of play. It came due to Jessie March not making the right substitutions early enough. Players where totally knackered and needed to be subbed earlier. However a fit Bamford on the pitch would have led to Leeds scoring another goal imo.
The stills don't work so well James. I wonder what alternative solution there is.
Your Leeds/Leads bit sounded like it could have been a two Ronnies sketch
Liking the shirt good sir, where do you shop at?
Watching the Leeds game I think we deserved to win tbh, Bamford loss didn’t help but we still created decent chances. Think we just ran out of energy and waited too long to make subs, already 2-2 by the time Marsch made his first sub excluding the bamford sub, had around 10 mins between their 2 goals where we could’ve brought on fresh legs and ultimately paid the price by not doing so! Would’ve taken a point away before the game but disappointed to not take all 3 in the end.
Think Marsch might have been in 2 minds what to do as he'd normally have taken Rodrigo off for Klich to sure it up a bit, but with no Bammy and Joffy it would have been more of a shuffle.
Would have liked to have seen Sini and Forshaw come on after their 1st goal, Harrison played well again but was obviously knackered
@@jloky.x yeah deffo needed something after their first goal, with all their strikers coming on with fresh legs, we needed some sort of reaction subs wise. Just thought Jesse left it too late
Yay, I made it. Subscribed before 200k. Just found your channel. Good content, keep it up!
The thing I will say about Solskjaear was he was the one who built this team. Don’t forget that.
I recon forest after the international break in gw8 or even World Cup will do very well
watching the game at st mary’s leeds literally just stopped running last 20 minutes it was so annoying
Chelsea played the best football I've seen from a chelsea team in a long time. It was a back three in defence but 4222 going forward, RLC at rm and James at right back, and Mount looked good at lm
And still couldn’t score more than 2 goals
@@jdrummerdd And those two goals were more than enough to win the game if not for Anthony Taylor's match fixing. Come to think of it, Chelsea played out of their skins to hold a draw against 13 men including Mike Dean on VAR. Still, a point at Stamford Bridge. Warra trophy for Spuds.
@@jdrummerdd The team is not finished yet, but that performance shows that they will be a force this season. Clearly needs at least one more forward. It would be strange if the team peaked now when they have made so many changes, with more changes to come before the window closes.
They played better football in November 2021 when they were beating teams 3 and 4 nil, just before Chilwell got injured against Juventus. The performance against Spurs was very good, but did not produce enough goals. I think they will be stronger this season as Tuchel is now getting his own team. A couple more forwards, and they will be a serious team.
Hey James I've been a fan of you and flav ever since d ball street days. I'm from Singapore and we don't have a lot of media surrounding football content despite us being a EPL football nation.
Just wanna say your content has always kept me informed on football post match analysis breakdowns and it's always a good laugh and I really appreciate your channel. Keep up the great work!
I’ve been subscribed just for a couple months
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James and Chelsea is literally Tierney a d Scotland
Rico Henry is such a cool name.
If United are insisting on playing Maguire, they should do what Rafael Benitez did with David Luiz when he was at Chelsea. Play Maguire or one of the CB's as the number 6 purely for defensive capabilities and just to plug the leak..
Thank you for timestamping the different teams jim
It’s sssssooooooo boring!!!! 😂
@@JamesLawrenceAllcott has to be done, 'preciate it
As a Leicester fan, Rodgers is the best manager for us, 100%. But he underplays us so much. We’re so much better than this.
Leicester fan too, I like rodge but get the feeling he’s lost his desire to succeed with all the injuries over the past couple seasons and this transfer window, wouldn’t be surprised if he starts to look for a way out soon. By no means rodge out but we definitely need an injection of energy from somewhere
@@Nickc101t yeah mate things have gone stale and the injuries have contributed to that. Feel as though Rodgers has lost the nice vibe from when everyone was fit and now with all the inconsistency that the injuries have brought, the overall motivation and ambition from everyone at the club (namely Rodgers) has stalled. Not qualifying for Europe has meant the squad has become unsettled from players being more receptive to a move like Fofana or Maddison, to players actually leaving such as schmeichel and to players who we don’t need such as vestegaard sticking around for the pay check. Due to all this it feels as though for all parties a refresh is likely and could even go as far as to say it’s needed and a good idea 🤷🏼♂️
@@MattRobson1 I agree definitely need a refresh and it’s a tricky one because the only way I see that happening is a new manager but Rodgers definitely doesn’t deserve the sack and it’d probably be too expensive to sack him anyway
@@Nickc101t yeah something like £20m to sack him lol and yeah seems unfair to sack him when he’s not really done anything wrong but at the same time it would help refresh things
Ten Hag should change the system to suit the personnel for the time being. Stop the bleeding. Then after a few transfer windows, start playing how he wants. Look at what Arteta did at Arsenal. You can't just suddenly make a team play from the back with De Gea and Maguire.
Not sure if he will though. I have heard that he is uncompromising in how he wants to play.
You are awesome at this! Do Fulham pls :D
James, they "didnt get themselves out of the problems they were in" the ref did.
Living in the happy world of Aribo
For Man United, go through the growing pains. Ragnick's biggest regret was comprimising on style too much
What's the app that James uses to see the average positions n stuff?
No Spurs r not title contenders. If anything I felt yesterday showed that they aren’t anywhere near that level yet