Kudos to these 2 guys as For me they are the only 2 players so far this season who've played with real attacking intent, like they fuckin well mean it!
Both get a lot of stick and for some things rightly so, however when they go forward they do it with purpose and like they want to and believe that they can make something happen. They will take defenders on and try to pose them problems and they will do it at pace. Townsend will get shots off (probably too many) and both will try to get crosses in, people will say that their crossing and particularly Walker is poor, well when he usually has 1 forward to seek out against 4 or 5 defenders guess what, he's not going to find him very often. He does what most of the time he should be doing which is putting the ball into areas for our players to attack, the fact that we get no bodies in there to do it is not his fault. Walker has created good chances, for example in the last 2 games he created our best chance against Newcastle for Eriksen and on Sunday he created our best chance for Lamela with 2 great bits of play.
Outside of these 2 nobody and I mean nobody else (Lamela excluded as not enough time) goes forward and attacks with pace, purpose or intent. They amble, stroll and almost seem reluctant to take somebody on, sprint, make a third man run, drive into the box, get across the front post, pretty much do anything with real intent and menace. Third man runs are a classic, I don't think outside of Walker who's a fuckin FB I've seen any player make a third man run to try and make something happen for somebody else all season, why not, it's a basic attacking weapon, are we afraid of getting players caught beyond the ball. I haven't seen one midfield player try to drive beyond Soldado in the middle third all season, not once, not a single once, in 12 games that's unbelievable!
I'm not saying Walker and Townsend are our best players, far from it, but I am saying that they are the only 2 who attack with pace, verve and some bloody desire.
We need the same determination from others in the attacking part of our game and if we can get it then our play will naturally quicken and teams will find us much more difficult to defend against.
Both get a lot of stick and for some things rightly so, however when they go forward they do it with purpose and like they want to and believe that they can make something happen. They will take defenders on and try to pose them problems and they will do it at pace. Townsend will get shots off (probably too many) and both will try to get crosses in, people will say that their crossing and particularly Walker is poor, well when he usually has 1 forward to seek out against 4 or 5 defenders guess what, he's not going to find him very often. He does what most of the time he should be doing which is putting the ball into areas for our players to attack, the fact that we get no bodies in there to do it is not his fault. Walker has created good chances, for example in the last 2 games he created our best chance against Newcastle for Eriksen and on Sunday he created our best chance for Lamela with 2 great bits of play.
Outside of these 2 nobody and I mean nobody else (Lamela excluded as not enough time) goes forward and attacks with pace, purpose or intent. They amble, stroll and almost seem reluctant to take somebody on, sprint, make a third man run, drive into the box, get across the front post, pretty much do anything with real intent and menace. Third man runs are a classic, I don't think outside of Walker who's a fuckin FB I've seen any player make a third man run to try and make something happen for somebody else all season, why not, it's a basic attacking weapon, are we afraid of getting players caught beyond the ball. I haven't seen one midfield player try to drive beyond Soldado in the middle third all season, not once, not a single once, in 12 games that's unbelievable!
I'm not saying Walker and Townsend are our best players, far from it, but I am saying that they are the only 2 who attack with pace, verve and some bloody desire.
We need the same determination from others in the attacking part of our game and if we can get it then our play will naturally quicken and teams will find us much more difficult to defend against.
