Women's Team 2020/21

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Steph Houghton has been a great defender for City and England. She’s 32 now so not quite at the level she once was. I think the women start to feel the age difference a couple of years earlier than in the men’s game.
 
ManCityX said:
Steph Houghton has been a great defender for City and England. She’s 32 now so not quite at the level she once was. I think the women start to feel the age difference a couple of years earlier than in the men’s game.
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Her personal life won't be helping either, as you would imagine, an awful illness to deal with.
 
JRockBlues said:
Our biggest weakness now seems to be in central defence (where've I heard that before). Not convinced that Houghton and Bonner are really good enough. Steph seems to have some real lapses of judgement with passing out from the back and Gemma has never really been great in that department imho.
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I sympathise with Steph she has a lot going on in her private life, that can not help.
 
mccity said:
Pretty much. Taylor seems to be more determined to play out the back and compared to everyone else now that we've signed Bronze the CBs are a step down in that regard. And given they're naturally going to have a lot of the ball it means they either recycle it uselessly or give it away a lot unnecessarily. They're both good defenders imo but Houghton is increasingly error prone. The other issue is that Taylor seems to not be playing White up top, which I understand but Stanway isn't the alternative to fill that spot.

Otherwise it's looking good, certainly once they get up to speed with the tactics.
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Yes, I agree and also what I meant when I said about her 'digging us out of the shit'. She's mainly error prone because the mid don't quite know how to find the space the men do, therefore she's forced, a lot, to try a 'Hail mary' pass or threading it 'through the eye of a needle' and it's irritating, but I don't blame her for wanting the ball out of possession.

It's a DM/ MF issue that needs to be addressed.

By the way, I like that Ellen White is not and out and out striker now as she's a very good false 9 who has an eye for a deft pass; the kind she'd like for herself.

I just wish Georgia Stanway could learn from her, which is clearly never going to be the case!!
 
JRockBlues said:
Our biggest weakness now seems to be in central defence (where've I heard that before). Not convinced that Houghton and Bonner are really good enough. Steph seems to have some real lapses of judgement with passing out from the back and Gemma has never really been great in that department imho.
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I've thought why not play Steph as a sweeper behind Bonner and Megan Campbell. Think both Bonner and Campbell are good central defender with Steph as extra cover . Also allow Bronze and Demi Stokes (or possibly Alex Greenwood ?) to bomb forward too ?
 
kev20971 said:
I've thought why not play Steph as a sweeper behind Bonner and Megan Campbell. Think both Bonner and Campbell are good central defender with Steph as extra cover . Also allow Bronze and Demi Stokes (or possibly Alex Greenwood ?) to bomb forward too ?
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if we are going to experiment with a sweeper - Walsh is probably the best candidate - much better range of passing.
 
nmc said:
if we are going to experiment with a sweeper - Walsh is probably the best candidate - much better range of passing.
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Maybe but I was thinking of Steph playing behind the two central defenders , don't think Walsh could play there , but you are right about Keira's passing , just wish she would take more control of games at times , because she is that good .
 
The team will need a bit of time to gel with several new players and a new coach. We don’t know the fitness / conditioning of the players and they might be a factor in Ellen White starting on the subs bench. Georgia Stanway is a very talented player so I can understand why she started against Villa.

I agree with the poster who said our attacking midfielders aren’t very easy to find for Steph or Kiera.Thst might change as the Americans find their feet.Taylor might choose not to play a holding midfielder in some games where we expect to dominate possession and he could go with Weir and Mewis as more orthodox central midfielders (possibly with Lavelle in front of them) with creative passing ability.

Steph has lost some power in recent times (maybe age is a factor) but she has been a brilliant servant for City and England:
 
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Tim of the Oak said:
The team will need a bit of time to gel with several new players and a new coach. We don’t know the fitness / conditioning of the players and they might be a factor in Ellen White starting on the subs bench. Georgia Stanway is a very talented player so I can understand why she started against Villa.

I agree with the poster who said our attacking midfielders aren’t very easy to find for Steph or Kiera.Thst might change as the Americans find their feet.Taylor might choose not to play a holding midfielder in some games where we expect to dominate possession and he could go with Weir and Mewis as more orthodox central midfielders (possibly with Lavelle in front of them) with creative passing ability.

Steph has lost some power in recent times (maybe age is a factor) but she has been a brilliant servant for City and England:
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I was very impressed with Sam Mewis on Saturday, and I’d imagine that Rose Lavelle is of a similar standard. Once these two are firing on all cylinders, I think our performances will go up several levels.
 
Looks like they are building some squad this year - watch out Chelsea. Maybe going to push for the Champions league to
 
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