Watford (h) pre-match thread

[Stevieatlasblue]

Happy New year blues..win tonight please..i don't mind a draw either..any news on kdb?

 

[sir baconface]

I can’t see David Silva being at the races due to his recent personal issues, whatever they are.

We're both just speculating but I'm more sanguine than you. I can see Dave being well up for this after his lay-off. What better way than a Merlinesque performance to give himself a tonic?

On a related note, a short enforced rest for KDB may not be such a bad thing either.

 

[Neville Kneville]

I'm not disputing that, but he would be useless in a pep system. I get we are all miffed as to why our front players are struggling to find the net as well as we know they can, but I just dont see any argument to suggest an ex player would have slotted them as it can only be a speculative call

He wouldn't play much in a 'Pep system' (although I'm pretty sure he could have, had he not missed two years early in his career) he would just help win us a few games when he did get on, as he did previously.

2015/2016 P 7(19) Mins 753 Goals 8 Assists 1 Shots per game 1.1


2016/2017 P 5(15) mins 528 Goals 4 Assists 3 Shots per game 1.1

Never complains, just works hard & does what he can, including score.

A 3rd striker who can do that, & doesn't have to 'rotate' the senior players, would be perfect. Be good if Nmecha could step up.

 

[mosssideblue]

It's very noticeable and it's no coincidence how often we've scored within a few minutes of the second half starting right after Pep has been in their ear for 15 minutes. I get sometimes the plan is to tire them out over the course of the game but given most players will have a week before their next game after tonight there's no reason not to go out and try and blow them away in the first 20 minutes. Just want to see a return of that intensity and relentless feeling of "we're going to run you ragged and not let you breathe until we score and decide we're comfortable" that we've not seen for a number of games now if i'm honest. Against Palace it wasn't really there, KDB showed it in glimpses inbetween trying not to get put in a wheelchair and Kyle Walker definitely showed it in the last 10-15 minutes but nobody else did.

Maybe that is Peps 1st half tactic - play half arsed in the first 45 making sure they dont score of course, let the opposition get in for their half time cuppa and bacon sarnie and manager thinking they have done well only for us to come out and give them the Ali treatment "float like a butterfly - sting like a bee)







:)

 

[Len Rum]

[QUOTE="Stevieatlasblue, post: 10688351, member: 66055"i don't mind a draw either[/QUOTE]
U wot?
Watford are top of the injured list ( along with the dippers), they have Troy Deeney suspended and they are near the bottom of the league and you wouldn't mind a draw.
FFS!

 

[mosssideblue]

He wouldn't play much in a 'Pep system' (although I'm pretty sure he could have, had he not missed two years early in his career) he would just help win us a few games when he did get on, as he did previously.

2015/2016 P 7(19) Mins 753 Goals 8 Assists 1 Shots per game 1.1


2016/2017 P 5(15) mins 528 Goals 4 Assists 3 Shots per game 1.1

Never complains, just works hard & does what he can, including score.

A 3rd striker who can do that, & doesn't have to 'rotate' the senior players, would be perfect. Be good if Nmecha could step up.

Fully agree with that but we are derailing the thread so will leave it there

 

[sir baconface]

A hypothetical argument no? Sterling has been in "the right place" quite often recently and still we are debating missed opportunities

Yes, of course, but that's what we do on a forum. I have no argument with Sterling's contribution and am not sure why he keeps getting dragged in. We are missing more chances as a team than we should though.

 

[domalino]

it is purely speculative to suggest AN Other would have slotted them when one of the worlds current and future best have failed

The problem with that is Aguero isn't currently one of the best strikers in the world. He just isn't playing at that level currently. The goal numbers in league and European competition back that up.


In September he was - scoring, creating, running people ragged... the car crash seemed to derail him, but that was over 3 months ago now, and even though everyone knows that player is still in there, we've only seen brief glimpses like half an hour vs. Bournemouth of the same kind of form.


Would love for him to rekindle that form vs. Watford - he was absolutely sensational in the away game - but every week that goes by, I get a little less confident that Aguero will be coming back.

 

[kaz7]

is there not a nacho v razzer thread somewhere lads

 

[kaz7]

[QUOTE="Stevieatlasblue, post: 10688351, member: 66055"i don't mind a draw either

U wot?
Watford are top of the injured list ( along with the dippers), they have Troy Deeney suspended and they are near the bottom of the league and you wouldn't mind a draw.
FFS![/QUOTE]
rumour has is steve is not a blue