The fight against that dude made no sense to me. Dude was shit scared of Haaland and his stepping on Haaland was a genuine mistake.I’ll strap my tinhat on here but…
He shouldn’t be immune to criticism as stupid as that sounds with the number of goals he has, but other than his goal yesterday his hold up play and general involvement was crap, he also got dragged in to a stupid battle with a shit championship level defender that nearly got him sent off and played straight in to Everton’s hands, the ball was bouncing off him all game as it was against Brentford too.
I do understand his frustration at times but sometimes he needs to do more as well when it comes to bringing others in to play.
this is true. if they deny us possesion territory near or inside their box, infact that will galvanize them not demoralize them.It's the mental fatigue of defending their goal for an onslaught that demoralizes opposition.
Non-threathening possession, might in fact do the opposite. The opposition can choose wto just sit back and wait for errors.
Their 2 lines of deep 5s can comfortably deal with any possession that doesn't threaten.
Walker flying down the wing and smashing balls into the box. Lol
We do have attacking wing backs, we could potentially play Walker/Cancelo and Gomez against the lesser sides in the leagueWe could really do with 2 attacking full backs that give us width but we don't have that.
I don't accept the resting and rotation policy we have. Kdb and Rodri seem to be played to death but younger players are regularly dropped. If we want to win the league or CL I think haaland foden alvarez Silva kdb rodri walker stones are the key. Who plays with them and what formation is the managers job. He isn't getting the best out of a really talented squad.
There is time to sort it though. But it's running out.
We do rotate but not certain players. As for attacking fullbacks who naturally give width we don't really have any. We have too many technical players who like to come inside or/and like to play between the lines. We have great players but too many have similar strengths.We do have attacking wing backs, we could potentially play Walker/Cancelo and Gomez against the lesser sides in the league
Gomez isn't a great option, but he will give us width and an overlap which at least gives the full back something to think about, and gives the likes of Grealish two options
I think the reason we don't rotate is that our game isn't particularly taxing. We have the ball for 70% of the game so physically and mentally it can't be too draining
That being said, we need Alvarez in the team for his pressing which should hopefully put a bit of panic into the opposition defence. I don't even think I'd be too worried with Mahrez and Grealish pressing me, Haaland a bit more so though haha!!
My lad was happy with a wound up Haaland. Seeing his reaction after the first minute challenge he put £10 on him to get booked and won £160!
Yes that’s what he did do. He used to overlapWalker flying down the wing and smashing balls into the box. Lol
I'd say we are performing less well, rather than poorly, and not because of Haaland, but because we're in a transitional period as I said (and the fact its one of those odd seasons given the World Cup like you say, reminds me of the season Leicester won, or Liverpool).OK, so we are now saying that the other players are performing poorly because of Haaland?
There's also been a lot of rotation in the team so far because of the World Cup, which is possibly a reason for those players struggling to get going.
Despite that stats above, we spent most of last season complaining that we didn't have a striker, so to now use that as the reason for us not performing is a bit odd if you ask me. Especially when that striker has broken pretty much every goal scoring record ever made by a PL player!
My goodness, no!!We sacking Pep and hiring Pochettino?