Did you check or is this just a gratuitous insult?IOMLS just considers his posts and doesn't jump in mere hours after a game declaring we're not good enough - I expect on triple signing Friday you were one of the fans thinking we'd win the league?
But we were winning the ball of them in their own half a lot of the time so the game was really compact in their half and really stretched in ours. Sure we didn't have the creativity in our side but that is in great part to the creative players we have not really being available having either just signed or not being 100% fit.
Bale Modric Sandro Lennon would have been straight back up the other end, but they'd have been in our half a lot more than they were. I think we'd have had more intelligence to coax them out and we'd have moved it a bit quicker. I think we would with a midfield consisting of Holtby, Eriksen and Lamela too but we just didn't have those guys available.
Arsenal caught us at just the right time. We're a work in progress and we played without a lot of key components. Next time we play them we'll be a completely different animal.
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its the crosses im more worried about, although lamela will fill one position
He's a fantastic player and I am over the moon we signed him....but
I'm not sure he can play on his own up top. He needs either support from more attack minded midfielders or another striker partner.
Time and again we see him isolated and surrounded by 3 or 4 defenders. Feel sorry for the guy, because thats not his game.
He needs service like any striker. His movement for his shot on goal yesterday was excellent.
We need to play more to his strengths. We struggle to create for him (might even say we struggle to create a lot of clear cut chances in general), and he need good service to score.
For me we should try play 4-2-3-1 more, or atleast make eriksen/holtby one of the 3 in the midfield of a 4-3-3.
Soldado
Chadli - Eriksen - Lamela
Paulinho - Sandro
currently we hardly let other teams through our midfield so we dont concede many, but it also hinder our offense and might be an idea to sacrifice one "midfield beast" for some more needed creativity.
He needs service like any striker. His movement for his shot on goal yesterday was excellent.
If Soldado puts in as little effort off the ball as he did last night, there will be plenty to worry about.
Early days yet. Hopefully Eriksen and Holtby can be his makers.
Have you got stats to back that up? I thought he chased down a lot, so would be interesting to see how he compares with other strikers.
If Soldado puts in as little effort off the ball as he did last night, there will be plenty to worry about.
Early days yet. Hopefully Eriksen and Holtby can be his makers.