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I personally think Skipp was MOM today but can we bring back options for Team Effort and None Deserved?
Skipp from what I saw.
Bran was fantastic as well.
Davies did a lot better against Adams than I thought.
Skipp was immense and motm. What a performance. Love Bryan’s toughness, technique, and involvement in the game as well.
Was very happy with what I saw from Skipps - some good interceptions, tackles and some good passing as well - and he is certainly a MOTD candidate - 8.25/10
- Gollini 6
- Tanganga 6
- Romero 5
- Sanchez 5
- Davies 5
- Dele 7
- Skipp 8
- Ndombele 4
- Lo Celso 5
- Bryan 7
- Kane 7
- Son 6
- Hojbjerg -
- Reguilon -
Thought Skippy was great can only get better and some very good imagintive passing instead of the sideways stuff.
Skipp.
Defence struggles without Dier. Hope he’s taken a big step this season now he’s the most senior CB.
Skipp and Gil were very good
Skipp should be picked ahead of hojbjerg when there is no need for both
Gils energy levels are exactly what we need
Romero is going to be class
tanganga definately 1st choice RB
put Ndombele further forward where he can’t kill us and no defending responsibilities (inc set peices)
lo celso and dele weak links
miss Lucas
Skipp MOM for me, thought he was immense as our only DM. He was closely followed by Gil who definitely has something about him. Never stopped running and never stopped trying to make something happen. Also made a couple of great tackles on Traore. Not sure if it’s a good thing or bad thing that our two best players were our two youngest players!
Gollini 6
Tanganga 6
Sanchez 6
Romero 6
Davies 7
Skippy 8
Dele 7
GLC 5
Ndombele 6 (the average of 9 and 3)
Bryan 7
Kane 7
Either Skipp or Bryan MoTM for me. Both did really well against Traore as well.
Gollini - couldn't do anything about the goals. Did ok without being tested too much
Tanganga very good but needs to tone the aggression down a notch.
Sanchez - back to last season's Davinson. Was afraid of this.
Romero - Struggled together with Davinson. I think he is partly to blame for the second goal - he should not step up there to try and cut off the pass, he has to drop and try and press Podence and try and cut of the angle for him to curl it around Gollini instead.
Davies - did well apart from his crossing which is just dire
Lo Celso - poor again.
Dele - some great moments such as the assist and some truly awful.
Ndombele - best player on the pitch for 30 mins then pretty much the worst. There must be something more to his lack of fitness, I cannot fathom how unfit a player can be when training every day and playing PL football.
Skipp - has a tendency to start slowly but grew into it as per usual.
Bryan - Combined well, always running and full of energy. Doesn't hide and struck a great pen. Should have scored in normal time though.
Kane - excellent first goal but missed a sitter in the second from a beautiful Son cross. Still not involved enough for my liking.
Subs:
Son - very good cameo.
PEH - poor pen
Reguilon - excellent pen
Nuno - I like that he acknowledges our obvious problems, such as set pieces, which Poch and Jose never did. But why is Tanguy marking the opposition's strongest set piece players? Tanguy was marking Dendoncker yesterday and Lukaku last Sunday - what is the actual thinking behind that? Why do we not have at least one player, like Tanguy for instance, covering one of the posts?
The positive:
- we look good as long as Tanguy isn't gasping for air.
- did create some excellent chances in the second half also this time, even if we lost control of the match.
- winning on pens again
The bad:
- we look much worse as soon as Tanguy tires, which is before the 40 min mark in high-tempo games...
- missing too many easy chances to put a game to bed.
Almost unanimous shouts for Skipp as Man Of The Match, he's massively leading the poll at the top of the page.
Meanwhile, head over to the Arseanal match thread & pretty much everyone is dropping him, the local lad who will absolutely get what a NLD is all about, and they're selecting Lo Celso instead of him.
This place really is fucking weird at times.