Analysis of the goal conceded against Sheriff Tiraspol (7/11)

I love Friedal but he's now past it and starting to leak goals. Should use Gomes as number 2 and move Brad to coaching staff

Why are you so harsh on Friedel all the time? He's basically single handedly keeping your goal analysis blog alive at the moment ;) heheh I liked the lack of a reaction from the crowd when the goal went in. It's almost like we've forgotten what it's like when the other team have the ball and score.

I fail to see how most of the blame is laid on Freidel. To me, the real culprits were most of the defence - especially Walker and Kaboul. The defence just sat there, bystanders, static, watching proceedings!

Lovely watermarked GIF there Windy, proud of you.

I'm not certain Friedel is much to blame here, I'm trying to think what Lloris would do in the same situation and cant actually see anything that would change the result.All credit to Isa, that was a much better finish than it looked. The stand out part to me was Kaboul was busy turning to shout at the defence instead of following the ball in, he'd obviously given it up for a corner way too early. In fact my initial feeling was the goal was unltimately conceded at the bit before the gif starts with walker letting the ball get to that point. Aside for that, Mike says it all, Friedel is getting too long in the tooth, he is great to have in the squad, if for nothing else the professionalism he seems to have instilled in those around him, it was when he showed up, not when avb showed up that we stopped seeing players being poured out of taxis evry monday morning. Although I'm not for Gomes, I think his weaknesses are exactly the wrong ones for our system, though I always felt that the press had it in for him and one big mistake that could be written off for most teams as a one off led to minor errors being blown out of proportion until the big errors started to be made and made regularly, I liked him and feel spurs gave up on him too early, but i think it's passed the time where he can come back from it, better for his own career that he moved on (2 years ago to be fair). Anyway, positives, Lamela looked very good didn't he? especially in the middle where you said in the last blog Windy, but I think his personal game changed out wide on the left for that little bit, it was like he got a taste of freedom and remembered what he was there to do, a taste of things to come I hope. Eriksen was off and on, started badly and warmed up, if we can get him to start at that point and continue to the levels he showed in his first matches then we have a player. Siggurdsen looked his best when on the right, he and walker actually did some things i havent seen at WHL for too long, one touch passing and crossing, in fact Walker volleyed in a fine cross low and hard that deserved far more than to hit the defenders legs, I still feel we need extra bodies in the box pushing from the far side rather than waiting for the scraps to fall out to them. Kaboul and Vertonghen made individual errors, but unlike the tibsili game looked like they could play together in a pair, this is a good sign as firstly they are our best defenders and secondly, when they've played together in the past one of them has needed to be subbed, check out the second half of the tibsili game if you want to see comedy defending, we were very fortunate that their forwards were having such a bad day. My word, this is far longer than i intended.

This isn't analysis of the goal. This is a description of the goal. We can all see what happened from the gif. Your analysis used to be so much better Windy, this is just poor though.

I think Dembele should take a look at Cadu's shot and remind himself of his own shooting prowess. Friedel appears ponderous. Btw, should we put in a cheeky bid for Isa? I thought his movement was good and in fact the problem with Sherif was a lack of confidence. They broke very well indeed.