Lo Celso - 7 - He's such a class above the rest of our lot, like his mean streak.
Need more cunty argies.
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Lo Celso - 7 - He's such a class above the rest of our lot, like his mean streak.
Need more cunty argies.
One thing is clear to me Sanchez is not good enough of a footballer to play for us as anything other than cover. The problem is his physical attributes are desperately need. Toby ad and Dier will get found out by quicker players we need to recruit a fast strong ball playing CB. They don't grow on trees mind.We allowed far too many free kicks and corners to allow Everton to pump the ball in but despite expecting 1 of them to cause problems we coped well. Having Toby back allowed much better distribution from the back. Biggest disappointment was the attack that again did not produce. A deflected goal all we had to show and we really need to improve on that.
Lloris - 6 - Not really sure he even had to make a save?
Aurier - 6 - Neither good nor bad. Seems like he was instructed to play a bit more deeper.
Alderweireld - 6 - Meh. He's such a shadow of his former self.
Dier - 6 - Poor positionally at times, Richarlison shot in the first half for example. Wins alot of headers though.
Davies - 6 - Probably the worst of our defence. Needless fouls. Awful in possession.
Sissoko - 5 - The less said, the better.
Winks - 7 - Kept it ticking, put in some good tackles and interceptions
Lo Celso - 7 - He's such a class above the rest of our lot, like his mean streak.
Lucas - 5.5 - When Lucas is your most dangerous attacking option, you should be worried.
Son - 5 - Not a good game at all
Kane - 5 - Again, not his best game.
Kane 7? I'll have what you're smoking man.Lloris 6
Aurier 4
Alderweireld 7
Dier 5
Davies 5
Lo celso 8
Winks 5
Sissoko 3
Son 6
Lucas 2
Kane 7
Kane 7? I'll have what you're smoking man.
He was shocking mate. Barely had a touch. Doesn't even look fit.I thought him, Son and GLC had some creative play. I know he didn't do much but I don't put that on him as much as his teammates.
He was shocking mate. Barely had a touch. Doesn't even look fit.
You rated Sissoko 3, Kane 7... Lucas 2... Whatever mate.I think we watched a different game. He barely had a touch because he wasn't in the back 4 taking all the back passes from Winks and Sissoko.
When him. Son and GLC were able to link up they created chances. He shouldn't be expected to go back to the halfway line, get the ball and then go score. He needs people to get the ball to him and his teammates were not doing that.
Moura bungled so many potential chances, Winks and Sissoko were dreadful in their passsing and the FB's offered nothing. He didn't do much but that was 100% because his teammates didn't give him a chance. When he was able to get the ball with GLC and Son good things happened.
Maybe he could have got an incomplete because of how useless his teammates were but he was good when asked to do something.
You rated Sissoko 3, Kane 7... Lucas 2... Whatever mate.
We just wonFuck knows, finding it hard to care.
We just won
Enjoy .79%
We just won
Enjoy .79%
In fairness, with regards to the attacking areas, it looked like aurier was told to be more withdrawn and davies to get forward slightly more than usual.If I am brutally honest, and the truth is pretty brutal for those of us that don't just see football as a result on teletext, I think since the restart, we have actually seen some meagre evidence of Mourinho-ism finally having some kind of effect. But it's so incredibly marginal. I even checked the X/G's (which give an unbiased measure of the quality & quantity of chances) and even they are struggling to pick it out. If you compare the corresponding games, earlier in the season we had a 4.22 XG against, this last 4 games 4.6 so it's actually eeked up by 0.38. Our XG for has gone from 4.5 in the corresponding games down to 4.3.
So the metrics say we're actually marginally worse in terms of chances we're allowing and marginally worse in chances in chances we are creating.
Bottom line, if there is any improvement, it's slim fucking pickings.
Sissoko, Aurier and Moura form an access of dim on the right side, which is like one of those black holes in the galaxy, anything that drifts into it's nebulous orbit, gets sucked into an oblivion vortex:
This shows how reliant we were on the left side, despite the fact that Aurier is our de-facto attacking FB:
Sissoko's ability trundle out of reach of anyone looking for an out ball is truly world class, and whilst Winks was at least a fair bit more available (received 52 Sissoko 28), he too can play peek a boo at times, and just as when Poch reached for this doublepillockpivot, the result was a midfield that struggled to join the back to front of the team with any real incision.
Will we ever see a real midfield again? Does Mourinho's white board only have 4231 on it?
Fuck knows, finding it hard to care.