McAtee did not look average. His team was woeful he was pretty good. He is a decent finisher and is stronger than foden. Kev is wasted up there as is Foden. I agree avout Silvas goal threat but he could provide other things.
In the false 9 we don t need the player to be super goal threat. As long goals come from other positions as well. We need pace on the wings and scoring from down in midfield as well. We should probably try play Kev, Foden and Whippy to ensure this happens.
The talent is there, the quality is there, the enviroment was not there for him to excel to the pevel his talent deserves. Let us hope we see him swim :-)He looked average at best to me. Non-existent in some of the more difficult games.
Doesn't mean he can't do well for us though. Comparing playing for us to playing for Sheffield U is like seeing how good someone is at tennis and deciding if they'd be good at swimming based on what you saw.
The decision is his.Will Erling even be available tomorrow? I ask because I heard that he was being allowed compassionate leave due to the death of a close friend. (Ivar Eggja)
Of course the decision is his. I was just making a comment.The decision is his.
City are quite capable of beating anybody with or without Haaland . I trust Pep to deal with any games where he's not available.
Whoever it will be, it will be a square peg in a round hole. Pep is probably going to have to regularly rotate who the sacrifice is as to not upset anybody by constantly playing them out of position.
If we had Alvarez or a replacement, haaland doesn't play tomorrow, as it is he'll start all 3 within the next week if hes available, there wont be many games where we can afford not to start him.
Which is why i think we'll be going into most games aiming to smash teams like Brentford within an hour and then get haaland off and see the game out by playing keep ball.
Watford will be the interesting one, he surely wont play that and even though they'll be lots of changes, that will be the first time we will see a lineup that is setup with no striker, the personnel might be different for that game but the plan should be the same for if/when we've got to play without him in a big game.
And who do we have on the wings that's more prolific than him? His conversion rate was terrible but we don't have anybody who has the goalscoring instinct he had who can put up even half the numbers sterling was consistently getting from the wings. Grealish gets about as many as a centre back, doku marginally more and savinho i have high hopes of seeing a decent return from but the lads been here 10 minutes.