Annoying game to watch, not the kind of performance we should be seeing at this stage of the season.
I'd like to see the stats for this season where Yaya and Kolarov have started the same game... their "can't be assed running" attitude spreads throughout the team. Yaya keeps trying to do the same run with the ball past 2-3 players when he's on the half way line no thought to the fact our defense will push the back line up as the ball moves forward. If Kolarov doesn't have the pace then he needs to have spot on positioning and reading of the game and he's bloody terrible at both at times, square on to a player who is obviously looking to knock it past him at any moment, casually turning his back on the ball before receiving it and then losing the run of it or having an awful first touch, delaying a pass till he has no options to pass to. Zab has lost some pace but he's never seen wanting for effort, never sherks a tackle, always willing to put himself on the line for the team.
Also it annoys me that despite being considered a tall physical team, we never win challenges in the air much, our players just feint going for the ball and don't even jump most of the time . Add to that that our own players who should know this keep opting to play a long looping high ball to a player who's not in space and that's where a lot of their breaks come from.
