Garth TOTW Analysis
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This is why I genuinely think
@TalkCPFC
has an impossible job getting 11/11. You could get ten goes at guessing the team and you would never get Gordon in the DM. Vintage Garth
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There are so few out there doing what he’s doing at the level he’s doing it at. This is a generational talent we’re witnessing
- barely anyone playing in position
- 9/10 outfield players scored
- only outfield player not to score got sent off
- no understanding of wingbacks
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What a beautiful little season we’ve had with Garth. Palmer has never played there ever
There is a way he can change this to keep the existing players and make it make more sense, but he can’t be bothered and fair play
As always in recent weeks, his gems are in the text
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What a midfield. KDB left wingback is simply beautiful
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@Saucecore
This is the sort of tactical fluidity that the football world praises ‘Pep’ for. But when Garth puts it out there he’s mocked
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@fistedaway
Forster in goal for saving a pen. Back three of Gabriel, Chilwell and worrall (all scored). Almiron at RWB, Trossard LWB. Billing and odegaard in the middle. Kane, Isak and Haaland up top. 9 of the 11 scoring goals
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Caps it off with some beautiful Xhaka slander. Truly a classic week for Garth
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Not many thoughts on a pretty classic Garth selection, but I will never get over why Sterling and Saka aren’t switched to play on the sides they actually played on
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Shoutout to walker for having multiple families but still being good at football. Shoutout to Tom Lockyer for having a medical emergency
Shoutout to Klopp and Salah for leaving even though Salah hasn’t left
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A great case study of recency bias. Neither Palmer nor Foden in after midweek hattricks is very mad
Although Palmer does get in his brand new honourable mentions section. That contains Andy Madley? And a Welbeck shoutout despite him have 0 G/A this week
Lovely
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- Ederson faced 1 shot on target
- I seriously need him to learn a new formation
- There is some top waffling in the prose this week
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Hoping for a halfway team of the season from Garth because this is far too normal and boring from Kevin
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This is the level this man is operating on that people simply don’t appreciate. I think his thoughts when he picks the team is
- who scored
- who do I like
He is a purely vibes based pundit in the ever increasing age of data driven analysis. We must treasure him
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While I agree with his assessment. It’s more classic Garth as this whole thing is basically not about a player he’s included
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Can’t even begin to describe how annoying the positioning of Wilson and Soucek are. Why not just swap them. Where does he think Harry Wilson plays!?
The anti Arsenal bias also very funny, bravo
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If you told me at the beginning of the season that Garth would pick a team with Stones playing CM I would have never believed you, and yet here we are
Also in awe of Bowen CF, the amount of time he has dedicated to hating the ‘false 9’ is only second to his hate for Xhaka
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Not much to see here except some classics
- Palmer and Gibbs-White being that way round is infuriating
- Doku on the wrong side
To be honest he could so easily play a different formation and have lots of players in their reasonable positions
This weeks gems are in the text
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@kingsacrificer
He then literally writes about how playing at wingback specifically has improved him. Wonderful stuff
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This is more like it. Two full backs in the back three. Salah and Son as wingbacks. No midfield balance. Solanke out of position. She’s been to the Garth school of team selection
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- Dalot played left back. In purely because he scored
- all outfield players scored except Mings and Fernandes
- Wingbacks mental as usual
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-9/11 scored a goal
- Wingbacks completely mad
- GK that scored an OG
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-All 10 outfield players scoring is wonderful stuff
- Mykolenko isn’t a CB
- Wing backs completely mad
- Sarabia in because of a good finish having barely played any minutes
- Palmer didn’t play there
Classic team
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I fear he’s starting to understand formations and where people actually play. That’s the most normal midfield he’s maybe ever selected
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I falsely assumed he was in for his goal. However he appears to have made the team for not getting a yellow when he should have?
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@paddypower
There seems to be a lot of negativity in the replies about the selection. People are not ready for his genius
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Inevitable he does this. Two yellows for dives is the ultimate Garth bait, nothing he would have liked talking about more. I am actually a fan of honourable mentions, because it means he’s less likely to pick some random player just so he can talk about an incident in their game
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After a week of being normal he’s back to having no idea what a wingback is and playing people wherever he feels like
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I KNEW he would be dying to talk about the celebration. He then gets entirely wrong what the celebration was. Terrific
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This new section is definitely going to throw up more and more great content. His commitment to just shoehorning in random players he wants to talk about is unmatched
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@BBCSport
People complaining he left off Enzo. Both his chosen CMs scored, which is the most important thing anyone can ever do for Garth
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It’s so beautiful I can’t believe it. What is the back three
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VVD just about gets one sentence here in 3 paragraphs meant to be about him
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Something I never thought I would see. A normal team. Everyone pretty much in their positions. An actual balance to the midfield. Put in players who didn’t even score on the merits of their performance
I’m sure this means next weeks team will be insane
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‘From then on it was all Liverpool’. Villa literally scored 10 minutes later. Also him saying he doesn’t often select subs feels wrong. I feel he does it all the time
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@BBCMOTD
People questioning the inclusion of a keeper who didn’t face a shot on target clearly just aren’t on Garth’s level
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Just incredible. Most people playing out of position. Trent after a defensive horror show playing CB
CM appears to be Grealishs new position in his eyes
As usual he doesn’t understand the WB position at all
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???? Clearly just desperate to talk about City v Spurs
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I think Shearer really manages to fly under the radar compared to Garth. His team is objectively more mental. Although Rice at LWB is beautiful from Crooks
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In one weeks time we will have Garth’s first team of the week of a new season. Throwback to his beautiful Felix/Fernandes double pivot
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@BBCMOTD
- playing the wingers on the opposite sides to where they played ✅
- not understanding wingbacks ✅
- insane midfield two ✅
He’s back
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- 8/10 outfield players scored
- Keane gave away a pen who cares
- Ake didn’t play RB
- Grealish CM!?
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Nedum a sort of halfway house between the two. Trent at LB is incredibly mad and obviously the most attacking team ever but it’s vaguely normal
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Look, he can’t be expected to look up the nationalities of 11 players each week. So instead it’s better to just guess
Garth Crooks' team of the season describing Ruben Dias as a "Spanish international" - 46 caps for Portugal and has never even played in, let alone for, Spain - is spectacular even by the big man's standards
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No he won’t 👍
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For the doubters. Compare it to what Shearer has offered up. Mbeumo and Bernardo as wing backs, 3 CFs in the front three. Garth is clear I’m afraid
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He’s devastated the goal was disallowed and just wanted to slag off arsenal fans
@GarthTotw
can we talk about the completely unnecessary last paragraph. Talking about a fans opinion on an overhead conversation.
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Describing Alvarez as Fodens strike partner and then playing Foden at RWB is a good bit fair play
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It’s all come down to this. A team of the season where KDB is playing right wing and Odegaard left wing
Obviously disappointed it isn’t more insane, was half expecting like the 9 top scorers to be shoehorned in alongside a couple others
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@MILLICENT373674
@TalkCPFC
Thank you Millicent but we won’t be doing that around here I’m afraid
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Two teams in and he hasn’t gone crazy yet. However his commitment to playing the wingers on the wrong side is fascinating. Some gems in the paragraphs as well
Garth Crooks' TOTW is here! 📝
Agree with his selection? Any changes needed? 👤
Let us know on
#BBCFootball
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Arguable that Felix, Bruno, JWP, Saka, Isak and Ramsey are all out of position, which is quite the achievement
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Relatively disappointed that it’s this normal. Of course the wingbacks aren’t wingbacks but they never are
I will always respect his sheer laziness with what side he plays each wide forward, both again clearly on the wrong side
Garth Crooks has named his first Team of the Week this season! 🙌
Do you agree with his picks? 🤔
#BBCFootball
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I would love to know why Almiron has switched sides from last week. Foden in the RWB role is something Pep would be proud of though. Koulibaly on the wrong side of the three but he’s made more mental teams
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So desperate to talk about the ref but no players he could reasonably put in the team so creates a whole new section that he then has to populate with whatever else he can think of
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They lost 2-0 at home without having a shot on target????
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A rare change to 4-3-3. Really impressed he’s playing Milner where he actually played. Martinez clearly didn’t play LB. Saka plays a different position every time he makes the team and it’s never the one he actually played that day. Salah on the left is so lazy I respect it
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Incredibly strange use of ‘the good news and the bad news’ as he switches who the news relates to. I’m here for it
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Sublime
He’s back and better than ever before. Just look at that midfield pairing.
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What can he say. Garth loves strikers and hates a false 9. (City achieved less points this season)
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Have Chelsea considered Caicedo can also be utilised as a LCB when in negotiations with Brighton?
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Classic 3-4-3 from Garth. Will ignore the fact that Silva would never play RCB and that Almiron isn’t a RWB and congratulate him on a team that vaguely makes sense
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And his greatest piece of prose, barely about the man he was writing about
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@R_J_Joyce
Yes he could certainly undo it all next week, however Wilson scored twice and didn’t even make the team. Unprecedented
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Made me laugh a lot. A novel interpretation of the current handball laws
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This is vintage. Ridiculous to think this is a paragraph about Almiron, he gets a cursory mention at the very end
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@MichaelConnor27
Look we can’t start getting into if he’s selected the right players or not. He’s playing people (mostly) in their positions. This is huge progress
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This is mainly about anyone other than Saliba. Emerson will feature again
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Two great minds tussle it out to not understand wingbacks
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Including two defenders because they scored. Playing a RW at LWB. I’m proud that he’s actually put a wingback at wingback though. Progress
Liquid Crooks here: one sentence on the player, then a handbrake turn into a slagging with everyone catching strays
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Probably because they were both up for the set piece that he just been taken as is very customary in football
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Moves like a striker? Lampard fighting for his job if not pushing top 6? Lampard being talked up as next England manager? Deranged paragraph
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@fistedaway
Spending most of the analysis talking about anything but the player in question is how the format works
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Garth favouring the fashionable 3-4-3 as he does most weeks here. Unusual selection of Grealish in a midfield two very much overshadowed by playing two CMs at wingback. He’s definitely fielded more insane teams
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Spends a surprising amount of time actually talking about the player in question. Fair play
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He lures me in and then switches back to form, this is essentially all about Pereria giving away a pen
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@BBCMOTD
His complete disregard for people’s stronger foot, and the position they played in the games he’s referencing, is incredible
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Claiming he’s a must for Qatar after one good performance is punchy but again this is pretty solid stuff from Garth
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This was definitely the worst balanced midfield he did last season
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If he needed to analyse what the players actually did to make the team he would be in serious trouble
Absolutely vintage Crooks here – maintaining his anger at Emerson Royal across two different team of the week entries in the same article, getting increasingly furious
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Get dominated by Onana all game but score a goal. In the team you go
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Wonder what he thinks of Emerson? 6 week ban feels extremely unlikely
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