- Jul 9, 2007
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He is very good, very very very good. He just isn't consistent. Today I kind of felt for him, the reality was we didn't get the ball into our front 4 at all in the second half. We were hoofing too much and the back three meant that they were first to any second balls. We changed the system in the second half and were playing much much better but the sending off killed it. For my Dele was our best attacking player today, which unfortunately is more a sign of how blunt we were rather than how good he was. On a side note he was great against west ham, maybe you mean Burnley?Thought Alli was totally and utterly dreadful against Wolves and against West Ham he did nothing at all. Alli will still have a few good games but I personally don’t think he is very good.
The thing about this game is it was incredibly boring, Chelsea were not up to much either. The main difference is that Chelsea stopped us playing more than we stopped them playing. The reality is that it seemed like Jose set the team up to counter Chelsea. Frustrate their attacks and hit them on the counter. Now, this may have worked if we didn't concede the first goal. But we don't have the right mentality to play that way. We are simply too used to playing very open and are not at a point were we know how to control a game from sitting deep. I thought we did this fairly effectively against wolves, but we got the first goal which helped a lot.
I also think if we were to just set ourselves up to play football, we could have won that game. Tactically we were too focused on stopping them and not enough on beating them, and Chelsea played a system we didn't accept and nullified it quite well. If we kept to 11 men we could have fought for something. It is a shame because it killed any chance of us really playing the game.