- Jul 27, 2008
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No point in ratings as to a man we were fucking terrible. Lloris was ok and Capoue made a few great tackles. Soldado tried more ( although nothing came off) and made more runs within 5 mins of coming on than Adebayor did during the whole match. The whole performance was abject. I was annoyed at how we were holding on to the ball for too long, not passing it quickly and forward. Then you look ahead of the ball and Adebayor is just standing there. Eriksen is just standing there. Chadli just standing there. lamela was showing for the ball but he was being marked tightly. So what is the man on the ball supposed to do if there is no movement ahead of him and no pass on. He passes it back or sideways and in doing so takes all the momentum and pace a out of the game, not that there was any to start with. Just terrible from our front 4. No effort at all to try and move the defence, run into channels, run beyond the striker. So after the complete lack of effort you'd think you could at least rely on decent ball control and passing. nope. Lamela ran out of ideas after 5 minutes and constantly gave the ball away. Eriksen was anonymous as was Chadli. Rose made some good runs but there was noone (sometimes not even Adebayor) in the box to cross it to. Chiriches looks like a competition winner and how can you have a captain leading by example when said captain is in the worst form of his career. When they scored their goal I'd assumed the whistle had gone due to the lack of marking. Just unbelievably bad all round. ]
Stamboulli has to come in next to Capoue. dembele didnt do much again today and was back to taking all the momentum out of the attacks. Stamboulli's energy if nothing else will help. having seen him against Belgrade I think that fazio wouldn't have let their goal happen. He is too good in the air and we need that. Don't know what has happened with vertonghan to be not included ( fitness? attitude?) but he needs to be playing. Adebayor needs to be dropped for a couple of games and let Soldado have a run in the side. He showed more willingness to makes runs off the ball and get on the end of things than Adebayor today who was just terrible. He did nothing. Not sure that he even won a header.
Oh. Almost forgot about Paulinho... Jesus Christ almighty.
And Finally... what the hell happened to our high tempo, high pressing game? has Poch stopped bothering with it? Are our players too stupid and lazy to implement it? Did the players sack it off due to their general lazyness ?
Stamboulli has to come in next to Capoue. dembele didnt do much again today and was back to taking all the momentum out of the attacks. Stamboulli's energy if nothing else will help. having seen him against Belgrade I think that fazio wouldn't have let their goal happen. He is too good in the air and we need that. Don't know what has happened with vertonghan to be not included ( fitness? attitude?) but he needs to be playing. Adebayor needs to be dropped for a couple of games and let Soldado have a run in the side. He showed more willingness to makes runs off the ball and get on the end of things than Adebayor today who was just terrible. He did nothing. Not sure that he even won a header.
Oh. Almost forgot about Paulinho... Jesus Christ almighty.
And Finally... what the hell happened to our high tempo, high pressing game? has Poch stopped bothering with it? Are our players too stupid and lazy to implement it? Did the players sack it off due to their general lazyness ?
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