What about the previous two weekend?
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What about the previous two weekend?
I’ll wager a bet that you’ll be amongst the first ones to start when shit hits the fan.
Last season the fans rightly booed and yelled at the players for an abysmal display. I think we we're all out of shape, with no nunez, Thiago and Fab.
I think we need to switch to 4-2-2-2 which would allow both Fab C and Harvey to play alongside Fab and Hendo. However, the club needs to revisit the transfer market even fucking freebies like FLORIAN GRILLITSCH or even loaning in Michael Sabitzer would make us stronger
The worst thing about this post is that this isn't even negative Hal, it's actually true.
By no means, binomial.
I can't see any other solution here than to sign a couple of midfielders. Maybe that's the emotion of the game, but you look through the squad and apart from Fabinho (who is out of form) and Thiago (who dies repeatedly), none of the rest are either good enough (yet in some cases) or fit enough. Both in some cases.
Henderson - on the wane
Fabinho - top class but out of form
Thiago - top class but dead
Keita - waste of skin
Jones - is he any good? No-one knows anymore
Elliott - promising
Carvalho - promising
Milner - doing great for someone with new hips and knees but not good enough to start
Bajectic - promising
Ox - dead and probably would need three seasons of games to play himself into form
There's no combination of three players which provide a consistently good enough midfield. You can play a sub-par third member of midfield alongside an in-form and fit Fabinho and Thiago; but for a team whose game relies on those two so much it's pretty poor we don't have adequate cover for either.
Maybe if Jones gets fit and we stick with him for a bit he'll step up and become good enough, but I can't see a position he can make his own. But that's a massive punt.
Henderson - on the wane
Fabinho - top class but out of form
Thiago - top class but dead
Keita - waste of skin
Jones - is he any good? No-one knows anymore
Elliott - promising
Carvalho - promising
Milner - doing great for someone with new hips and knees but not good enough to start
Bajectic - promising
Ox - dead and probably would need three seasons of games to play himself into form
There's no combination of three players which provide a consistently good enough midfield. You can play a sub-par third member of midfield alongside an in-form and fit Fabinho and Thiago; but for a team whose game relies on those two so much it's pretty poor we don't have adequate cover for either.
Maybe if Jones gets fit and we stick with him for a bit he'll step up and become good enough, but I can't see a position he can make his own. But that's a massive punt.
Maybe it's time to ditch the midfield 3, since we don't have the personnel for it currently.
Elliott not being good/strong defensively is a bit silly to say. Watch the first goal. He actually pushed the play back twice by his presence and closing down. Then they went and sold Trent, Milner and van Dijk to have 2/3rds of the goal to aim at.
I’d go 4-2-3-1
That graphic and point is exceptionally misleading.
Konate
Thiago
Jota/Nunez
Missing for one reason or another and all of them would’ve been involved. So potentially 6 changes from 4 years ago meaning more than half the side.
Konate
Thiago
Jota/Nunez
Missing for one reason or another and all of them would’ve been involved. So potentially 6 changes from 4 years ago meaning more than half the side.
Exactly. I have been waiting for us to roll out the 4231.
No it isn´t. We also watch the game you know. Lacks both speed, tackling and physicality for that role.
And it was ridiculous then. Just as it is now.
But Thiago does?
He has more of it, and tons of other qualities too.
I am amazed that many here seem to think Elliott is the second coming. Serious amount of hopium going around.
He is a decent talent as an attacking mid, but should not yet be a starter, except the odd game at home.
Thiago has Lucas levels of tackling ability and is far from quick. He has some great attributes but he’s a 20 for injury proneness which means those attributes are useless.
Elliott is a 19 year old kid, with a handful of top flight games and I’ve got him top 3 in two of three games so far this season.
Elliott is a 19 year old kid, with a handful of top flight games and I’ve got him top 3 in two of three games so far this season.
I also don´t think banking on him is sustainable for us. Too injury prone.
Derailing the discussion towards Thiago is a strawman though.
I realised that so edited my post to bring it back in to Elliott.
Ridiculous how? It's facts.
In that case just play Carvalho, he looks far better suited for that position. Made a positive impact every game he's come on.
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