Atletico Madrid | Friendly (N) | Post Match Thread

Enjoyed that immensely. Good workout against a very impressive team so the perfect build up to next week.

Foden looked an absolute menace moving in from the right, the inverted role suits him. However I’d much prefer him at cam and then we have someone else hugging the touchline out wide.

We looked solid as a rock first 55 minutes and we have one hell of a core unit. Dias, stone, rodri, kdb and Haaland will win us everything again.

Kdb coming back in hopefully next week adds probably our best player so let’s look forward to the kings return. I love bernardo but feel we need someone in cm who can ping a ball through and open up play. Bernardo is a livewire but passing through balls isn’t one of his main strengths.

Thought mcatee looked tidy, kova fits in like a glove. Phillips needs to improve positioning but writing him off now seems crazy. Hopefully he can get up to the standards and I think he will as he’s already improving movements and passing.

Bring on the Gunners!
 
Goaters said:
Enjoyed that immensely. Good workout against a very impressive team so the perfect build up to next week.

Foden looked an absolute menace moving in from the right, the inverted role suits him. However I’d much prefer him at cam and then we have someone else hugging the touchline out wide.

We looked solid as a rock first 55 minutes and we have one hell of a core unit. Dias, stone, rodri, kdb and Haaland will win us everything again.

Kdb coming back in hopefully next week adds probably our best player so let’s look forward to the kings return. I love bernardo but feel we need someone in cm who can ping a ball through and open up play. Bernardo is a livewire but passing through balls isn’t one of his main strengths.

Thought mcatee looked tidy, kova fits in like a glove. Phillips needs to improve positioning but writing him off now seems crazy. Hopefully he can get up to the standards and I think he will as he’s already improving movements and passing.

Bring on the Gunners!
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Agree with most of this, although to be fair 90% of the doom-laden posts concern the other 35 minutes.
The bit in bold — not sure where you're seeing that today, mate. And I'm one of the few who's called for more patience for him. It's not a pleasure to say it, but he looked as though he didn't quite know where to be on the pitch.
It does occur to me, though, that it's his misfortune to be always brought in to a significantly weakened team.
 
Bluewars said:
First half was good the intensity and cohesiveness is still there thats great but we still lack creativity especially when Kdb is not playing. We need to sign an established RW now that Mahrez is gone, Bobb, Mcatee and Palmer are not ready.

Foden - Not ready to play central atm, needs an injury free season playing wide.

Grealish - still doesnt do enough in the final third for me.

Gomez/Bobb/Palmer/Mcatee - Keep one in the squad, loan the rest out.

Cancelo - Erratic and careless player, ship him out.

Phillips - move him on and bring back Lavia.
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Apart from that. Ok?
 
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