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I don't think Lo Celso was tactical as I understand it KWP took a knock so we he had to cover the right hand side, actually I thought he moved around well and started finding space and the ball as the game went on.Conclusions:
Poch has not worked out that we need to implement the man city and Liverpool style of attack when faced with a bank of five and four.... Which is: run at the players and beat the man or get brought down for a free kick or penalty!!!
Instead we pass sideways, hoping to give Son or Kane or Moura an extra metre to push the ball and shoot... Or we send it wide to one of our not so great crossers of the ball and generally pick out one of the opposition's three CBs. Great tactic, works every time.
It's Sissoko or Winks, not both. I'd choose Sissoko as he tracks back and covers the gaps.
Sanchez is a complete liability. He ball watches and never tracks the main attackers. His defending is really poor. So slow to react and not willing to take responsibility. Today he waved and signalled that Rose should pick up Joelinton... Their no 9, while he filled a gap and marked no-one! Poch could easily fix this, but hasn't yet.
Lamela cannot play against packed defences. Too slow to make a decision and needs space to play through balls, so is effectively useless against teams who park the bus.
Lo Celso wide right is complete nonsense. What was the point of that. In the middle or leave him on the bench pls Poch, don't destroy his confidence out wide for no reason.
Playing the ball wide to cross it into the box rarely if ever works. The sooner we rediscover the interplay that Alli and Kane found, with our current players, the better.
Also, we desperately need Tanguy already to play every important game!
The problem with playing it wide is that we didn't cross into the box once we had played it wide at least until it was too late and hopefully we will rediscover the interplay between Dele and Kane when Dele comes back and they are actually playing together.
I am right with you on the running at them, any defender hates that and it makes them nervous at the very least, I am not sure we tried it once though.