That covering ground stat so regularly spouted in support of Eriksen does my head in. He's ineffective at closing down and tackling so makes the jogging around pointless.
I thought Eriksen was supposed to be our metronome, it's his job to provide the stuff to work with and control the game - he was anonymous.
The impact vs Villa has been massively overrated, naff me I think even Shearer on MOTD worked out how the game changed.
Totally agree. Useless today.
He's simply a coward in the tackle and he may run a lot but his closing down is half hearted and ineffective.
Lo Celso will hopefully quickly fill his boots as he settles and then when Eriksen leaves on a free next summer, as he surely will the replacement will be...
Haven't seen much criticism of Sanchez in this thread.
So a good move to bring Skipp on and have him marking Laporte with Vert on the bench. That's odd in my book and we clearly got lucky on that.
Completely agree. When I watch games I no longer have any idea what we're trying to do.
Today I thought Sissoko was there to add protection to KWP but so often he was too far forward or out of position and KWP was constantly dealing with an overlap.
Pressing has gone
Pissing about passing at the...
Fair enough not to start if that is the case. But when we're under pressure for so long it does seem extremely odd we don't use one of our best defenders at some point. As we saw Skipp ended up marking Laporte for the last minute corner.
Yep, absolutely bizarre than Verts did not come on. Even if it was the last one instead of Skipp.
Starting to lean towards there being more to this than an apparent lack of fitness.
Amazed Jan never get a run out, even for the last sub when Skipp came on.
Surely he's not so unfit he can't manage 20 minutes being one of our best defenders.
Something starting to not feel right
Worrying how so many players seemed to have no clue what they were doing. So little protection of the fullbacks
I do genuinely worry about Poch's tactics
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