Nope. Even without considering McAteeThis is Kova's first match back and we are managing Kev's fitness very carefully. Despite Gundo struggling there are no real alternatives to take him out of the starting line up. McAtee hasn't been outstanding either in his starts to merit a place in the side other than cup games.
Pep values control in midfield and despite Gundo's lack mobility he has kept most of his technical ability.Nope. Even without considering McAtee
Doku and Savio can play on the wing to release Grealish or Bernado to replace Gundo. They can run and that is a huge positive comparing to current Gundo - sadly. I really love him as a player but his legs are gone.
What kind of control is it?Pep values control in midfield and despite Gundo's lack mobility he has kept most of his technical ability.
Control isn't having 70 percent possession and doing fuck all with it while allowing the opposition countless chances whenever they have the ball, Gundo also isn't keeping the ball as well as he used to , he gets dispossessed too easily now and he doesn't think as quickly anymore.Pep values control in midfield and despite Gundo's lack mobility he has kept most of his technical ability.
Possesion for startersWhat kind of control is it?
Can’t understand why pep won’t do this it worked when we beat Forest recently.Grealish central, Doku on the wing. Offers more control and threat. Gundo should be doing his work from behind the scenes.
Well because he tried it again against Juve and it failed miserably.Can’t understand why pep won’t do this it worked when we beat Forest recently.
Pep insists on playing Gundo. He has better options...Nope. Even without considering McAtee
Doku and Savio can play on the wing to release Grealish or Bernado to replace Gundo. They can run and that is a huge positive comparing to current Gundo - sadly. I really love him as a player but his legs are gone.
Control of what? He's an orange practice pilon at this point. It's painful to watch this once great player get brushed off and run past by bang average midfielders...Pep values control in midfield and despite Gundo's lack mobility he has kept most of his technical ability.
Did it tho, He wasn't doing much going forward but we weren't getting run over either. Pep couldn't wait to move him back outside and we collapsed shortly thereafter.Well because he tried it again against Juve and it failed miserably.
We did our usual second half capitulation.Did it tho, He wasn't doing much going forward but we weren't getting run over either. Pep couldn't wait to move him back outside and we collapsed shortly thereafter.
Shows you the quality of Rodri, we would have had control with him there. He is like Rambo. One man takes out half of Vietnam.Not the problem today. He did fine under the circumstances. AS I said in kovacic's thread, Villa intentionally outnumbered us in midfield, they had Kamara, onana and tielemans as a 3, mcginn spent the majority of the match making it a 4 and rogers roamed in to make it a 5, they were up against gundo, kovacic and Lewis, there was no possible way of winning that midfield battle today regardless of who was in there. Not sure how people aren't seeing that.
The midfield needed to do what they could and rely on the players in positions that villa left open, namely out wide, to do something with yhe space afforded to them which they did not.
Still can pass a ball and besides the squad isn't full of suitable options either to replace him either. We are stuck until the summer.Control of what? He's an orange practice pilon at this point. It's painful to watch this once great player get brushed off and run past by bang average midfielders...
Ray, I mean this sincerely. I'm impressed by how you're able to spin anything into a positive. Can Pep and the club really be this infallible?Still can pass a ball and besides the squad isn't full of suitable options either to replace him either. We are stuck until the summer.