The sideways and backwards passes are for any of three reasons:What the hell was up with Sanchez? Lost count of the times Dier or Winks were showing for ball only for Sanchez to play the ball sideways to Trips or Toby. He kept slowing down the play and looked very shakey again.
Cardiff are a championship level side, and we should be putting 3 past a team that gives so much space away - even in their own box. Then they were down to 10, and no-one would have known as we did not make use of the extra man.
So our MOTM wasn't an attacking player, that's for sure.
Dier and Winks is a nice midfield pairing, and Dier did make the difference in the end, but I'd expect more against such poor opponents.
But Cardiff had grit and their goal was coming all game - that it didn't means someone was playing well.
So I gave it to Alderweireld as he was playing on his wrong side but was in the right place to mop up once or twice.
Stupefies.Take three of the most influential players out of any team at any level playing against a strict defensive lineup and Saturdays game is what you get.
It stupifies me how any fan with an ounce of football knowledge fails to understand that.
The sideways and backwards passes are for any of three reasons:
1. For safety
2. To rotate the play to the other side of the pitch/up the middle
3. To draw the opposition out of their bus formation and create space between the lines
Whilst we enjoy a lot of possession this will continue to be the case. However, watching other teams play forward passes all the time you have to wonder if it's any more or less effective. It's not as pretty to watch but I think i understand why we persist with this sort of play.
Toby MOTM for me, thought all our midfielders and attackers weren't good enough today which made the job much harder than it needed to be, without Toby we could be easily sitting enraged with a draw or less in a game we should have won comfortably.
Interesting that in such a drab performance
everyone bar Sanchez gets multiple votes for MOM
and 'none deserved' comes fourth.
Probably illustrates the view
that when everyone vies for MOM
nobody really deserves it.
Voted for Winks myself
but again he only turned up
for 20 minutes.
Better than Andy Warhols
famous for 15 minutes.
But only just.
Just to clarify: are these poems?
I was merely eager to learn,I think you are asking
the wrong person.
I was merely eager to learn,
If it were a maverick carriage return;
Or if you were avoiding being terse,
To add more meat to the bones of your verse.
Alas, if you can't reveal the history,
It'll have to remain but a mystery.
If the style of your posts you sustain,
The unanswered question will remain.