Leadership at the club!Whoever thought replacing Vinicius, Bale and Lamela with only Gil was a great idea is the man of the match for me.
p.s. not a dig at gil who looks a good talent.
I wouldn't even call them poor. They legitimately don't give a flying fuck and that's a different thing entirely.We definitely have some poor players
Why the surprise?Winks MoM. Looks in control out there.
I'm surprised by Tanguy, you'd have thought he'd be putting himself in tne window. He looks gone sadly.
scarlett has started and shown his nowhere near ready for men's football, I can understand contes logicThe thing that I just don't understand about today is why change the system if Scarlett is fit to start on the bench? He should have started and the system stay with 1 up top. Gil and Alli are not strikers. I expected Alli to play better but he isn't someone that will hold the ball up, he makes runs.
NDombele can fcuk off now.
Winks 8
Lucas 8
Kane 7
GLC 7
Skipp 7
Everyone else should seriously consider what they contributed today.
I'm giving Conte a 5 and I think that's generous. Scarlett should have started and we should be using the formation he is favouring, no point in starting Alli and Gil as strikers. No idea what switching Sessegnon and Doherty did for the team. Alli showed against Liverpool he should play in midfield as he can do a job there. If this was Poch, Nuno or Jose they would have been ripped apart.
I’m puzzled by Conte today because of the reasons you’ve pointed out. Scarlett certainly wouldn’t have done any worse than Dele but would have helped our shape - and there won’t be many chances for Scarlett this season again this season. Dele had a good game against Liverpool in midfield, his best this season.The thing that I just don't understand about today is why change the system if Scarlett is fit to start on the bench? He should have started and the system stay with 1 up top. Gil and Alli are not strikers. I expected Alli to play better but he isn't someone that will hold the ball up, he makes runs.
NDombele can fcuk off now.
Winks 8
Lucas 8
Kane 7
GLC 7
Skipp 7
Everyone else should seriously consider what they contributed today.
I'm giving Conte a 5 and I think that's generous. Scarlett should have started and we should be using the formation he is favouring, no point in starting Alli and Gil as strikers. No idea what switching Sessegnon and Doherty did for the team. Alli showed against Liverpool he should play in midfield as he can do a job there. If this was Poch, Nuno or Jose they would have been ripped apart.
I'd pretty much agree with all of that apart from Rodon and Davies.Well….
Gollini - 4 - can’t save anything, and also very shaky when coming out as a sweeper keeper.
Tanganga - 2 - dreadful defending for the goal, looks lost lately and needs to be moved on.
Rodon - 6 - comfortable all game really. Embarrassing that Tanganga is seemingly ahead of him.
Davies - 5 - looked more shaky than normal but perhaps because of players around him.
Doherty - 6 - didn’t do anything wrong, but nothing particularly right either.
Sess - 7 - one of our better players on the day. Worked hard and was always available for the ball.
Winks - 6 - first half struggled but perhaps because of having to work as a 2 by himself.
Ndombele - 1 - dreadful performance. Slow on the ball, slow off it and even slower walking off the pitch. The guy is totally abject and has to go ASAP.
GLC - 6 - worked really hard and not a lot come off. Again like Winks he improved once he had better players round him.
Gil - 5 - works so hard but is really lightweight and new to this country. Deserves time though as he is just a kid.
Dele - 2 - just a very poor footballer. I see people giving him a bye because he was “being played out of position” but I genuinely don’t know what his position is anymore. Just a totally average footballer who can barely control a ball.
Subs -
Kane & Lucas - 8 - both are so far away ahead of a lot of the rest of our squad and both showed their quality.
Skipp - 7 - is light years ahead of where Ndombele will ever be. Has the talent aswell as the application.
Scarlett & Emerson - N/A - not enough time for either but Emerson did well for the third goal.
Generally an incredibly poor 70 mins which just shows exactly what we already know. We need wholesale changes to this squad. This will be further highlighted this week against Chelsea and Arsenal unfortunately, with Sonny out.