Fernandinho

[mammutly]

Thought he was our best player out of the 11 who started tonight.

He conceded possession too often for me, but on the plus side he did put in more effort than most.

 

[chesterbells]

Thought he was our best player out of the 11 who started tonight.

WTF

 

[ManCitizens.]

Thought he was our best player out of the 11 who started tonight.

WTF

Did you see him and Yaya being overrun?

 

[carlosthejackal]

He and Yaya were playing against a world class midfield 3. Is anyone really surprised we got overrun?

Apparently our manager is,

 

[LoveCity]

Only Kroos made as many successful tackles tonight so in a sense he did part of his job... but it was 5 against 2. Fernandinho was average but not nearly the worst form of mediocrity in our team tonight. Oddly enough he touched the ball more than Yaya, who is usually the player everything goes through but couldn't get in the game tonight.

 

[ManCitizens.]

Only Kroos made as many successful tackles tonight so in a sense he did part of his job... but it was 5 against 2. Fernandinho was average but not nearly the worst form of mediocrity in our team tonight. Oddly enough he touched the ball more than Yaya, who is usually the player everything goes through but couldn't get in the game tonight.

... because we couldn't get the ball.

 

[blightee]

Nice assist for their third. Absolute criminal mistake for a defensive midfielder

 

[NorCalBlue]

Only Kroos made as many successful tackles tonight so in a sense he did part of his job... but it was 5 against 2. Fernandinho was average but not nearly the worst form of mediocrity in our team tonight. Oddly enough he touched the ball more than Yaya, who is usually the player everything goes through but couldn't get in the game tonight.

... because we couldn't get the ball.

Anyone who's ever played in a midfield that's outnumbered should realize how hard it is to deal with. If the other team's half decent at passing the ball you just can't get near it and end up running around looking like an idiot, completely unable to get into the game. Same goes for playing in defence without enough midfielders in front of you - the other team streams forward in numbers and there's no way you can pick everyone up, so you have to start guessing and can look like you don't have a clue. If we want the luxury of out-and-out wide men and two strikers, we'd better get use to the mids and defenders apparently underperforming on a regular basis.

 

[Thenumber1blue]

Nice assist for their third. Absolute criminal mistake for a defensive midfielder

Or if our keeper didn't let another fuckin pea-roller in at the near post,it wouldn't have looked so bad !

 

[Jumanji]

Nice assist for their third. Absolute criminal mistake for a defensive midfielder

Barry - Napoli? Rodwell - Dortmund? Now THAT'S criminal.

I appreciate him for actually having the impetus to try and take the match by the scruff of the neck despite being outnumbered. A punished mistake we learn from. I don't blame his unsuccessful dribble to avoid the pressure on the tactics, but if he had more passing outlets from the little formation tweak we were crying out for........