- Aug 25, 2011
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Exactly.We've got too many injuries to play with the sort of intensity Ange needs for his style of football as well as playing a midweek fixture. The bench today was ludicrious, and it's not the fault of Ange:
There are basically 4 players there (not including Reguilon) that you'd trust to start a PL fixture at a push based off experience and known quality. We need players back quickly. We need genuine competition for the fullbacks, who were poor today (if Spence isn't going to be that) and we need to be able to rotate. Not only that but the impact off the bench is severely limited with a selection like that above. Only Kulu is going to really change things based on his quality.
- B. Austin
- L. Bergvall
- D. Spence
- A. Gray
- D. Kulusevski
- W. Lankshear
- C. Olusesi
- Sergio Reguilón
- L. Williams-Barnett
It's tough for Ange. He wants to play high intensity but his players are tired and he can't rest them.
I was sitting there at 50 mins seeing us struggle thinking to myself that other than Deki, I don't know how Ange changes this.
Even Deki when he came on wasn't exactly sharp as he can be.
Bergvall is clearly still some way off so you don't know what you are going to get.
Gray is currently being used as a utility FB to help him adjust to elite football.
Spence coming in probably takes away the delivery and threat from long distance shots you get from Porro.
It is seriously slim pickings and I'm just not prepared to criticise Amge for that.