Normally I question the selection of palhinha and bentancur at home but today I can see why he did it. Villa are a fucking huge team. He needed that physicality in midfield.
Can’t pick ofobert and tel at home though. Men v boys.
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Normally I question the selection of palhinha and bentancur at home but today I can see why he did it. Villa are a fucking huge team. He needed that physicality in midfield.
Can’t pick ofobert and tel at home though. Men v boys.
And the number of seconds it took for Danso to wipe the ball for a fucking long throw. How I wish sometimes we could just mix it up a little to confuse the opponents. Short throw, pass, cross.
Sigh.
That's exactly what Xavi is supposed to do though.
We can definitely play better when we have more experienced players up front but Kudus and Simons are quality players and we aren't putting them in positions to help them be their best either.
Agree. Definitely give him more time, even if we both know that 2 more performances like that and we will be in a minority.
I fully disagree and I feel like you are swerving my question mate. Do you see any problem with our approach to build up in CM? Would you continue playing JP and RB together? Would you play them together in home games?
FBs overlapping will be far and few in Frank's system. A more defensive approach is tuned to them now.
It takes 7 minutes to partially explain his tactical mastery. Basically, "run around a bit, give the ball to Kudus or sideways, and job's a good un"
But none whatsoever of those muscles and bullies that you got from the Newcastle midfield. A more energetic Sarr or even Bergvall over Bentancur may give us quicker passes to work around their midfield instead of being matching up to them man to man.
And more importantly we are at home..... Rather we do quick fire attack and score goals then shut up shop.
Works absolutely fine when we don't want the ball (PSG/City...Brighton was our best performance this season) it's when we need to take the game to the opps it's a total dead end.
I did wonder that second half.
I think the team has more problems than we realise.
Possibly right, but felt when Udogie played the other times, he naturally provided width and overlapped and looked comfortable than Spence.
He has never looked like that footballer again mate. That's the worry especially when you consider the injuries to Maddison and Kulusevski.. we need better NOW because we can't pin our hopes on those two returning perfect. I think we need to buy a Valverde or whoever the next best available CM and Id look for a playmaker Stiller even though I worry about his physicality.
Agree- Spence only tried to take it wide to the endline one time all game by my count. Porro's overlap game in general is weak and he prefers to sit back and hit crosses from deep. There is a lot of room for improvement between the both of them. I backed Udogie to start at LB for this game, and it appears he ought to have. The only quality cross I saw from Spence all game ironically enough came from him being in a right side position thanks to some weird dead ball setup. There's a lot for Frank to think about in there, and I thoroughly recommend he do so.
Not surprised he didn't start Kolo and was right not to start Richie who came on and made things even worse for us up there, adding nothing whatsoever.
So his scope is very restricted.
We need to accept the reality of the situation.
It's shit.
But will hopefully become less shit when Solanke and Kulu come back.
And Vinai and the gang need to help Frank out and not leave him short.
Big test for them coming up.
I wondered this pre game as well but Bentancur gave us ZERO physicality in MF today. Bergvall and Gray are both physically bigger and stronger than Bentancur. Bergvall is levels more aggressive to match the likes of McGinn and Onana (I've seen him flatten Joelinton). Sarr is our most physical midfielder with the sheer running he gets through.
Pre-game I thought I'd persuaded myself there was an excuse to play them together again but it was Bournemouth all over again and we are going to see this happen pretty much every time they play together.
I’d love to know why we can’t ever sustain attacks , he came talking about how we are going to press high and being intensity and we are lucky to see 2 shots a half . This isn’t football our fans are going to able to get behind , same as mourinho , Nuno . I wouid accept it if we were a good counter attacking team like we were for 6 months under conte but honestly this is the worst version of Jose ball
You can play who you want with the pool of players we have in MF and each brings its own problem:
- Sarr can be hit or miss, generally
- Lucas can be ill disciplined and rash and careless
It's a red herring for me.
It needs a rebuild, as I've said before.
I wanted Bents sold and upgraded upon.
But he scored the opening goal today and wasn't the reason why we lost.
That pairing was not the tipping point.
Critical factor was our lack of lethality where it counts.
Richy has nothing behind the eyes.
I also thought it was completely pointless trying to give him instructions.
Maybe when Solanke the target man comes back we'll hoof it up much more, using him in a role similar to how Palace use Mateta in launching their attacks.
That way we would be able to bypass the midfield area altogether as well: No more endless sideways passing inside our own half, or losing the ball trying to play out from the back.
That way we would be able to bypass the midfield area altogether as well: No more endless sideways passing inside our own half, or losing the ball trying to play out from the back.