Lucas was our most in form player yet was discarded for Dele. I was first to say Dele was being treated harshly by Mourinho but Mates-on just dropping an in form player to continuously play him makes no sense.
Everyone with eyes can see Dier is a waste of space. A man that spots the dangers yet chooses to not take control of the situation and leaves it to others (the problem with our team really). Mates-on discards Rodon who was playing well to help his mate with one last push to get into the euro squad.
Winks just randomly in contention again. Suddenly ahead of N'dombele in the pecking order.
The guy has no backbone. Get him out ASAP.
AGAIN, you know nothing of the clusterfuck that has been left in the wake of the dinosaur.
One thing that is apparent for us all to see is that the entire team is alarmingly unfit compared to almost every team we've played this season and we've had the leaked reports about the dinosaur training from numerous sources and now confirmed 100% by Kane in his Sky interview with Nevile that we did NOTHING on fitness!!
So, just armed with this nugget it might be a fair assumption why we haven't seen Ndombele on the pitch that much under Mason, who is trying to get his teams playing higher up the pitch with a bit more energy and some pressing. Perhaps that a player who has a history of conditioning-related issues is not deemed fit enough for what Mason wants, who just like the rest of the team wouldn't have done any fitness training at all this season!?? (I desperately want to see Ndombele on the field, he's the solution to some of the problems we can all see in the games vs Leeds and Villa, ball progression to the forwards).
The player that should have been dropped for Dele is Son, who's been miles off the pace for arguably two maybe three months now. But again there is still logic to not playing Lucas if Mason is trying to have us play with more possession, Lucas is crap when we have possession. He was well suited to Dinoball, running in behind and wide when Kane dropped deep and his work rate off the ball high in our mid-block was better than Kane & Son's combined. But Mason is trying not to have us play Dinoball!!!
Dier has his issues but he's largely played well, it was very, very clear that people don't understand how a team should defend by targeting him vs Villa, even when someone kindly posted a video breakdown of each goal and what caused them and people still can't (won't) see that our more serious issues defensively are what's going on in front of the pitch, rather than just in front of Lloris!!! Mason is almost certainly looking to at least get some stability at the back by not chopping and changing the CB partnership (which has happened all season under the dinosaur, with EVERY CB bombed out of the team) for the remaining games he was left to manage. I guarantee you the same defensive issues will be seen time and again no matter who is played at CB if we do not sort out how we defended higher up the pitch.
"get him out as soon as possible" today is the last game of his appointed 6 games.
