Rotate with Maddison as he gets kicked quite often and Kulu could dish it back!
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Match Fulham v Tottenham Hotspur sat March 16th 17:30
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Rotate with Maddison as he gets kicked quite often and Kulu could dish it back!
He is too inconsistent to start. He has those wonder games here and there but he is best as a squad player like Moura was. Bring him in when we need a spark.
So he just lets them spend virtually a whole game ‘screwing up’ and doesn’t do anything to try and stop it? That’s ridiculous.
Even more so is the suggestion that his lips were sealed for 90mins + HT.
I wouldnt over-analyze the game. Just a shitty day. Whole team played bad.
However I have to say, that our midfield tends to be lazy. On the ball and off the ball. They dont play it quick enough and it doesnt matter if its Bentancur, Biss, Höjbjerg, Sarr or Skipp. Bad positioning, subpar pressing and just in general not enough movement between them. And it always seems as if nobody wants to support the backline and play the role of a '6'. We would need a standout player this summer in that position.
However I have to say, that our midfield tends to be lazy. On the ball and off the ball. They dont play it quick enough and it doesnt matter if its Bentancur, Biss, Höjbjerg, Sarr or Skipp. Bad positioning, subpar pressing and just in general not enough movement between them. And it always seems as if nobody wants to support the backline and play the role of a '6'. We would need a standout player this summer in that position.
Come on such a simplistic view point. That means every team in mid table can play with no fear and rip us up then? It’s our coaches / mgt team plus senior players to make sure we handle it. Especially 20 mins into game and you know something ain’t working do something about it. But no we just let it drift to HT hoping for some 2nd half improvement. Hard to always grab back the initiative.
Could PEH bent and MADDs next game or as I keep saying bench the generally weak and useless wide players. It’s not as if we get to byline and put balls in the box. Play rich and din up top our two best goal scorers so far this season. MADDs behind them and then a midfield 3 from Biss, bent, PEH or Sarr. Keep the FBs wide.
It was a bad day, but we have to give credit to Fulham who were really good and made it a bad day for us.
I've seen them do this previously to other teams. They were tactically good, aggressive, herded us into traps and sprung them. Normally that should/coul suit us, but it was like we'd come off two or three bus parks and it just seemed to catch us out.
Klusevski and Son lost the ball between them twice as much as the rest of the team put together, including subs. Of the players that started, Sarr (67% Worst), Porro, Kulusevski and Udogie gave the ball away between 20-33% of their passes, and this was a constant theme from the get go and something some of us were commenting on from the start of the game. Some of this was Fulham's aggression and energy in the press but some was just carelessness that seemed to infect us collectively.
We have got find some forwards who are technically better under pressure in game play than Son, Kulusevski and Johnson (who was third for losing possession behind those two only because he generally treats the ball like a hot potato even more than those two).
I posted some tweets a few posts ago that tactically analysed some flaws in our system shape at times that are exposing our 6/CB's. These were causing us problems earlier in the season and I thought we were improving but Fulham's tactics seemed to expose them again.
Not all teams are good enough/luck enough to expose them, and our own tactical strengths have sometimes managed to outscore the tactical weaknesses. Saturday they didn't. We created as much as Fulham, but parity of XG has often been the case with us this season and not always in a good way, but we've often just outgunned the opposition - Saturday they outgunned us.
I've seen them do this previously to other teams. They were tactically good, aggressive, herded us into traps and sprung them. Normally that should/coul suit us, but it was like we'd come off two or three bus parks and it just seemed to catch us out.
Klusevski and Son lost the ball between them twice as much as the rest of the team put together, including subs. Of the players that started, Sarr (67% Worst), Porro, Kulusevski and Udogie gave the ball away between 20-33% of their passes, and this was a constant theme from the get go and something some of us were commenting on from the start of the game. Some of this was Fulham's aggression and energy in the press but some was just carelessness that seemed to infect us collectively.
We have got find some forwards who are technically better under pressure in game play than Son, Kulusevski and Johnson (who was third for losing possession behind those two only because he generally treats the ball like a hot potato even more than those two).
I posted some tweets a few posts ago that tactically analysed some flaws in our system shape at times that are exposing our 6/CB's. These were causing us problems earlier in the season and I thought we were improving but Fulham's tactics seemed to expose them again.
Not all teams are good enough/luck enough to expose them, and our own tactical strengths have sometimes managed to outscore the tactical weaknesses. Saturday they didn't. We created as much as Fulham, but parity of XG has often been the case with us this season and not always in a good way, but we've often just outgunned the opposition - Saturday they outgunned us.
Must be noted a lot of the xG we created came whilst 3-0 down with the game in a very unique place. Including the Werner miss which would’ve been a huge chunk of it.
I like both these guys, so I'm not trying to big one up at the expense of the other, but I honestly think the Sarr praise has been a bit over the top and Bissouma "out of form" narrative a bit over the top too.
Bissouma is never going to bank the kind of credit Sarr has banked by being seen bombing into the box and scoring or assisting etc. I think he's been fine since coming back. I think he was largely fine before.
IMO, this is the downside of Ange's high risk football, it asks a fuck of a lot of the single pivot 6. And he's not going bank credit for shiny things like scoring and assisting like the 8's.
You're right but also the XG timeline is actually almost a mirror image for us and Fulham.
Do you think the players are conscious about hamstring injuries and therefore not applying 100%?
I disagree.
Just take the top 10 from this article. Players are available if you willing to pay. Levy isnt.
Top 20 January transfers in Premier League history | Sporting News
Best ever January transfer window signings: where do Luis Suarez to Liverpool and Bruno Fernandes to Man United rank?
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Robert Huth, Gary Cahill, and Jermaine Defoe to Sunderland?I disagree.
Just take the top 10 from this article. Players are available if you willing to pay. Levy isnt.
Top 20 January transfers in Premier League history | Sporting News
Best ever January transfer window signings: where do Luis Suarez to Liverpool and Bruno Fernandes to Man United rank?
Still fuming.
How can that be any sort of growth . His had 28 games and we still play shit I’m almost every match first half. We get exposed time and again in the FB area, we have no width , everything goes down the middle which is congested. Lot to grow !
Think he got to a cup final tbh
How mirrors is that now?
We have spent though just look at that team most were not playing a year ago.