Definitely a left winger and nothing else. Still looks like he’s not quite comfortable with his full back, what did people think of Harrison Burrows today? Still seems weird we didn’t go for him in the summer as a complement.
Thought our set pieces weren’t great today tbh. What was the game where we pulled out about ten unique set piece routines then we’ve gone back to just lumping it in the mixer.
Defence is a real worry. I dread to think where we’d be with even a middle of the road defensive record. Am I right in saying we’ve scored three in every win so far? Not exactly sustainable.
Said it before but I don’t think he knows what his strengths are. Is he chasing balls into the channels (yes IMO) is he dropping deep and playing the target man.
It gives us nothing to aim at in the box so when teams play deep and narrow we end up passing it around before a late cross into the box to no one in particular. Saka and EMC are our best wide players so for me if we were going to be exploiting space out wide and not playing through the middle...
Rudoni isn’t anywhere near as tricksy as I thought he’d be. We should have had Saka and EMC on at half time for their ability to beat a man instead of always playing in front of them. I said I’d have had Simms on too but when he came on he was totally ineffectual again. What’s happened to him?
We needed to move them about a lot more to try and open space. We’ve done this all season stood about watching the man with the ball afraid to move out of position. We won’t be a top team until we can handle teams not allowing us to counter attack them only.
At least one was a full shove in the back from where I was. I just think if you give CBs a foul for falling over when they’re touched, you can’t claim it’s OK to push attackers over.
First half we did. I thought second when we were chasing the game we stopped completely TBH. The two go together though. Passes are easier to make when the receiver has moved into space.
We should have had four pens by my count. Bassette was shoved over twice in the first half right in front of me, and that’s why he gave a shove back because clearly the ref thought shoves were OK. The elbow was a little something extra.
Ref was truly dreadful again.
Or just a 19 year old that has good and bad games?
He does talk waffle. Just gibberish. I’m not sure how Bassette scoring (maybe, looking at it I think Eccles has a claim btw) changes that. I just miss an intelligent manager who spoke openly.
It was a bouncing ball he tried to knock through to Eccles and Eccles couldn’t control it. I know people want us to lump it clear when it’s in our own half but that’s not how the players have been told to play.
I think we are desperately short of players who can get out of tight spaces and use the ball fairly reliably well. It’s a trade off isn’t it. I have my frustrations with how slow we are going forwards across the team so not sure how much it’s an individual thing or a team thing. We’re just so...