Well if the crowd were saying it, then it must be true. Shut the forum down lads!Throughout the match, the crowd murmurs were mainly about how Grealish (and foden) is having another ineffective game, barely involved, offering very little and needed to be subbed for sterling or jesus with 20-30 minutes left, most people were saying he and foden were the worst two on the pitch and should come off, nobody was disagreeing.
Cut to bluemoon and there's pages of people suggesting he was our best player. It's almost as baffling as Pep not making a sub. Must have watched something else. First 10 minutes it looked like he might continue his united form, he looked lively then he reverted back to being safe and hesitant and remained so for the rest of the game. Better tenacity in him at least.
We need to be smarter and faster in such circumstance. Our defence needs to drop ten yards and lengthen the pitch rather than take the ball deeper into the opponent‘s half and condense it further. We also need to take greater risks and play more vertical passes than rely on horizontal passes. I’m sure we’ll get more practice in the coming weeks, alas.When silva Grealish were in that left side palace had up to 6 players in that corner stopping all passing channels nibbling at them no other team has this amount of defensive block to get through!
Yeh that was really noticeable tonight and very frustrating - Foden, Mahrez, Walker and Laporte were the ones who I noticed were guilty of this on too many occasionsAlways wants to take one more pass just like his colleagues.