I think this gets missed a lot when us fans think about Trippier. I've noticed a number of games where it seemed like he was following a very set game plan. So many times will we see a certain trigger (eg. defense wins ball and passes to the keeper) and Trippier will be sprinting up the pitch to take an offensive position as wide as possible.Not sure you can blame Tripps for not crossing into the box at every opportunity. Poch admitted after the game that he wanted us to shoot from outside of the area to break the deadlock, hence why he was looking inside for the last half an hour. By all means dig him out for defensive mistakes etc, not for following a tactical plan which eventually won us the game.
This was all so very predictable so why play Llorente?
He'd earned his start.
YES! 100% this!vociferousness castigate myopic..
The reason poch favours trippier is that he doesn't rate the other two, trippier is a defender who can't defend big Big trouble when you play top sides. Can't wait for him the be sold
Irony(noun): the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.We had little pace at all in midfield, certainly not defensively, which showed on the odd occasion when they broke.
They were set up to defend and counter and one of their main strengths as a side is in the air, Duffy's one of the best players in the league in the air and Dunk is no slouch. I swear to fuck some of you seem to know absolutely fuck all about football.
He’s a wing back and still not very good at itThe only problem with Trippier is that he isn't really a Full Back imo.
Son upfront is most effective against teams that come out and attack us, so he can make runs into the space. Brighton were always going to sit back and defend, so having Llorente on to give more of a presence in the box for crosses and to hold up the ball and bring others into the game made sense. Unfortunately, Llorente's link up play was less good than it can be yesterday.This was all so very predictable so why play Llorente?
Son upfront is most effective against teams that come out and attack us, so he can make runs into the space. Brighton were always going to sit back and defend, so having Llorente on to give more of a presence in the box for crosses and to hold up the ball and bring others into the game made sense. Unfortunately, Llorente's link up play was less good than it can be yesterday.
In turn, this allows Son, Moura and Alli to hang back more for cut backs etc.
Llorente's problem was that Brighton played so deep and rammed the area full of bodies that flick ons and knock downs had nowhere to go. When the crosses did come in they were not good enough (and Rose was as guilty as anybody in that respect). We've had similar problems when Kane was playing against teams that sit deep and clog everything up. There's no room behind for our pacy attackers and no room for the big strikers either.Thankfully we have Eriksen who can score from long range but we could do with some options who can do the same. I actually thought Janssen found a couple of pockets of space when he came on.
Son upfront is most effective against teams that come out and attack us, so he can make runs into the space. Brighton were always going to sit back and defend, so having Llorente on to give more of a presence in the box for crosses and to hold up the ball and bring others into the game made sense. Unfortunately, Llorente's link up play was less good than it can be yesterday.
In turn, this allows Son, Moura and Alli to hang back more for cut backs etc.
Llorente's problem was that Brighton played so deep and rammed the area full of bodies that flick ons and knock downs had nowhere to go. When the crosses did come in they were not good enough (and Rose was as guilty as anybody in that respect). We've had similar problems when Kane was playing against teams that sit deep and clog everything up. There's no room behind for our pacy attackers and no room for the big strikers either.Thankfully we have Eriksen who can score from long range but we could do with some options who can do the same. I actually thought Janssen found a couple of pockets of space when he came on.[/QUOTE
Yes but when this plan, and it sounds like a plan
after say 20 minutes clearly wasn't going to work
we should have changed things round
put Moura up front say
to flabbergast them with his speed and trickery
he's good in tight spaces or Son
or brought Janssen on at half time.
In the end we won anyway
but next time
and there have been times in the past
and will be more in the future
we need to be more adaptable.
Winning, papers over the cracks here.
You can't pick a lock
with a battering ram.
It's clear our tactics were to keep the ball to stretch Brighton and only to cross when we had little other option or men in the box with a chance of getting something on it and to have shots from outside the box, the only place where BHA afforded us any space.
Just throwing the ball in and surrendering possession was what Brighton wanted, we're a better footballing side than them, so outpass them. It's so hard for a team to remain concentrated when a team is all over them and I personally had faith that a chance would eventually come and go in.
Llorente was sandwiched between two big lads that are both very good in the air, why fucking waste the ball if there's nothing good on? Not to mention that some of the service to the width last night was pathetic, passes behind players, also far too slow to shift it at times
How did City do against them at home in a similar situation? 1-0 and they scored after 4 minutes.
Last night Trippier completed a higher % of crosses, had more passes leading to a shot than any Man City player and had a better pass completion than both their fullbacks, but yeah he's shite.
Although I’m not sure even @Paolo10 would argue that Trips is better than Walker. That was just tiring. Not in the same league.
Surely playing Llorente and having Trips not cross, was just to cause confusion. A dummy to create space in the box/edge of.. Didn’t really work tho. He should have mixed it up, cross it, pull it back, etc etc.