Counterpoint: When managers like Dyche and over the years Allardyce, Moyes and Pulis take over teams in trouble at the bottom the most noticeable thing that happens is they handle set pieces well. Because they know their players aren't good enough to get playing expansive open play football so...
If he's not going to get the coaches to sort out the set piece defending then we better hope the striker we buy in the summer is 6ft and can head a ball well. We took for granted how good Kane was at clearing corners at the front post. Drogba for Chelsea was excellent at that too.
We've blown Top 4 and the 5th spot is irrelevant now. I expected the season to pan out in reverse where we may have suffered some brutal days early on but by now be in better sync to close the season well.
Ange has one big obvious problem to solve. Set pieces. It doesn't matter how pretty his...
He had to go down immediately. Staggering forwards to try get the ball gives the implication there was not much force or it was just an accidental coming together.
This is why players make a meal of challenges though so we can't have it both ways.
Maddison has been the worst attacking player and he has not been at it since coming back from injury. Slipping too much and turning into opponents rather than the early season player who was gliding forwards.
Defensively we are disgraceful from corners. We took for granted how good Harry Kane...
I don't think it is at all coinicidental our form especially on the road has turned to crap with an out of form Bissouma being asked to control the entire space between the edge of our box and the halfway line on his own. Our front three can't hold the ball up to save their life. It's not their...
We're making a bad habit of losing control in the first half of matches after wasting promising chances before.
But once again the shift in the second half was good.
Start of the season we were putting in great performances from start to finish. That's died away as the season has gone on but...
I think next season we have to figure out a way to balance the midfield. Not just in personnel but they can't all expect to be the playmaker. If we're hit and miss with one game a week then we're going to be in real trouble with European football.
The goalkeepers for Sheffield United and Burnley are two of the worst I've seen at this level. They look so out of their depth. Luton's keeper has saved them points and that's worth its weight in gold.
Hopefully that goal will give him new confidence now he is off the mark. He plays well in build up play with his runs that the other players don't utilise enough. The glaring issue is he is not natural in front of goal and it looks like to be in the mind. There's no other player in the world I'd...
I disagree with that. Not saying you're doing this but I find it a bit patronising the common train of thought to say we have to get into the Europa or even now Conference League to develop our youngsters otherwise it can't happen. Firstly because it ends up in a Catch-22 situation since in the...
I would prefer that. Way I see it though is Bissouma's form has dropped off since the Luton red card so you can drop him, put Dragusin in a back three and Porro and Udogie inverting doesn't leave us with less numbers in midfield. If Ange won't stop the inverting with Davies and Emerson filling...
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