So who's the personnel?
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So who's the personnel?
Same Andy. Less said about that game the better.
More likely is you’ll always see one of Bentancur and Pauline with 2 of those 3.
Palinha shouldn't be playing against teams that won't dominate possession against us. His ability as a football isn't good enough when we don't need that skillset. Which is why I'd have preferred Ederson.
Edit to say that I absolutely think Palinha is a quality player before I get jumped on. Just that he's a player with a specific role, which he does better than most, we just don't always need it.
A striker who could hold up the ball would've helped but it wouldn't have cured our problems today.
Too many tactical mismatches going on in midfield and with porro v a man twice his size
Even if Frank got the tactics wrong it does show player limitations.
- Udogie with his left foot much better going forward than Spence, at the same time Spence is vastly better suited to the physical challenge of Semenyo than Porro. Udogie will help coming back
- Need a 10. Annoying Simons not available but at least we got him.
- Badly need a left winger. Be it Savinho or Lookman. This isn’t criticism of Johnson, he is who he is but a winger can score no goals and make no assists can win you the game by dribbling, pressing, ball carrying just like Semenyo. It’s too easy for any team to simply turn up and heavily mark Kudus, with Lookman as well that options isn’t available. We need a top left winger even if the guy scores less than Johnson he will win us more games with his play.
- in games where we can dominate the possession need Bergvall as the 8, strong and smart on the ball. Use Sarr for the likes of Liverpool and Woolwich where we sit off and counter.
I think we are well suited to playing big opponents but we need more adaption for when we have the ball more.
- Udogie with his left foot much better going forward than Spence, at the same time Spence is vastly better suited to the physical challenge of Semenyo than Porro. Udogie will help coming back
- Need a 10. Annoying Simons not available but at least we got him.
- Badly need a left winger. Be it Savinho or Lookman. This isn’t criticism of Johnson, he is who he is but a winger can score no goals and make no assists can win you the game by dribbling, pressing, ball carrying just like Semenyo. It’s too easy for any team to simply turn up and heavily mark Kudus, with Lookman as well that options isn’t available. We need a top left winger even if the guy scores less than Johnson he will win us more games with his play.
- in games where we can dominate the possession need Bergvall as the 8, strong and smart on the ball. Use Sarr for the likes of Liverpool and Woolwich where we sit off and counter.
I think we are well suited to playing big opponents but we need more adaption for when we have the ball more.
The problem is Solanke is injured otherwise we should sell or swap Richarlatan and get a proper striker before this window ends.
Agree they were big and bullied us caught us & Thomas cold. They had the attitude little Bournemouth playing big Tottenham they won’t play like that every week.
That’s going to be very difficult
Put the rage baiters on ignore.
There’s very little going on between their ears.
Gawd knows how they deal with life on a day to day basis!
So many mentioned about beating midfield press, but they pressed us beyond the midfield, right at our CBs. It's a very intelligent but risky high press from Iraola. He knew we had no no.10 or deep lying playmaker like Madders. The press was a very mobile one that could easily transition from pressing our CBs to double teaming our FBs.
The main issue was with Bentancur couldn't pick a pass from deep. Someone said he doesn't take risk and he's absolutely right. Together with Romero, both of them keep passing back so many times even when we could actually go long for a break when Palhinha or Sarr won/recycle the ball. They wasted so much of our possession to counter. And Bentancur isn't as quick as Madders who could receive the ball from CB to pass at a turn. He's the biggest factor IMHO that we couldn't play forward as much as we could when there was a huge gap in the middle left by Bournemouth knowing we couldn't utilise it without a Madders. Then they became even more effective in double teaming our flanks at every opportunity.
The main issue was with Bentancur couldn't pick a pass from deep. Someone said he doesn't take risk and he's absolutely right. Together with Romero, both of them keep passing back so many times even when we could actually go long for a break when Palhinha or Sarr won/recycle the ball. They wasted so much of our possession to counter. And Bentancur isn't as quick as Madders who could receive the ball from CB to pass at a turn. He's the biggest factor IMHO that we couldn't play forward as much as we could when there was a huge gap in the middle left by Bournemouth knowing we couldn't utilise it without a Madders. Then they became even more effective in double teaming our flanks at every opportunity.
They did to us, what we did to City last week.
They did to us, what we did to City last week
thats why we or City this season won’t win the league
Ironically Solanke was never (hardly ever) injured for them!
Also he said melting.
Which is the auto switch off word for any rational discussion.