rogerbarton 24 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Lacelles and Atsu coming back seems to have made a big difference. Only caught the highlights today as was heading in to north-east from London a bit earlier than everyone else! What were performances like? How did Saivet and Diame cope in the middle? (Not all that badly it seems.) Huge just to get a win, and we have Stoke, Brighton and Swansea to come - all teams we've already beaten this year. If Pep makes a lot of changes (I think he might), this could even be a good (better) time to play officially the best English team ever (they've got the largest lead to 2nd of any top flight leader at Xmas ever). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneColdStephenIreland 74 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 We'll beat City. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7295 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 12 hours ago, TheGingerQuiff said: This could be your Baines moment I highly doubt it, B. Emerton was my source... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Shows what we can do if we support the front one/two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 By far the better team and deserved the three points, played some good stuff on the break and should have been out of sight really. All they had second half was the lump into the box for Carroll to try and win, I'll agree with the comment about Saivet. Apart from his early mistake he played well, won his battles and used the ball well. Atsu MOTM for me, was involved in all three goals and looked dangerous every time he got the ball. Merry christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21924 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Just watched motd for the first time in a while. One thing Shearer picked up on, and which I noticed at the match was just how dangerous we looked going forward compared to normal. Every time we broke there were at least four players busting a gut to get in the box. We should have scored another three tbh. Very different approach from Rafa. I suppose he thought it’s shit or bust against a side as poor as West Ham. Tactically it was was spot on to go 4-4-2 against their creaky back 3. Their centre halves had to cope with two strikers, which left loads of space in behind their wing backs for our forwards to exploit. Buzzing our season is back on track finally. Great day out and early Christmas present. Could be a huge win for us going into the second half of the season. 18 points from 19 games. Another 18 might be enough to keep us up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGingerQuiff 2412 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 (edited) Swansea being shit and Pardew being at West Brom is a huge help. That 3rd spot could be anyones but I think we'll do enough in January. Edited December 24, 2017 by TheGingerQuiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10857 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 19 hours ago, zerosum said: fucking going out ... maybe i’ll log back in and we win 3-1.. i can dream Did you actually? Because we may have stumbled on the winning formula 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerosum 234 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 3 minutes ago, The Fish said: Did you actually? Because we may have stumbled on the winning formula i didn’t .. at the exact time I posted that saviet equalised!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haydnator 45 Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 Feliz fucking Navidad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10857 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Free hit against Man City, then aim to keep pace with the rest of the bottom half. Gulp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 It felt great to wake up with a stinking hangover this morning because the 3 points eases all the fucking pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 5 hours ago, Haydnator said: Feliz fucking Navidad. I'd take him on loan like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7295 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 On 25/12/2017 at 3:44 AM, adios said: I'd take him on loan like. Will bring joy when he arrives but then go missing for the rest of the season tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 With a brief return to form in early April? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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