That's the problem in a nutshell. Especially for a club with our mottoI think he was a victim of the balance of the game. When youre defending a lead he's not the player you want to bring on to add solidity and defensive discipline. Gedson and Lo Celso were better options at the time.
Then when we go 1-1, its difficult as we have already replaced the usual suspects of Lamela and Bergwijn to bring on tanguy, had we been chasing id suspect ndombele would have been on instead of Gedson. Jose was never gonna risk the solidity of sissoko and winks.
Personally id have risked taking Kane off for tanguy but I can understand why jose didnt take off his star striker when he needs a goal. I just didnt see Kane having the legs to make it happen personally.
Well we went with Son up top towards the end anyway with Kane dropping off so he could have come on in central attacking midfield.
I would have liked him just to get out there for his mindset more than anything. I just feel like not playing him tonight is going to knock his morale even more.
That doesn't really make any sense considering tonights game was more importantDepends, if jose has put an arm 2 metres from being around his shoulder and said, look I need you to make the difference tuesday then that works fine.
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I think he was a victim of the balance of the game. When youre defending a lead he's not the player you want to bring on to add solidity and defensive discipline. Gedson and Lo Celso were better options at the time.
Then when we go 1-1, its difficult as we have already replaced the usual suspects of Lamela and Bergwijn to bring on tanguy, had we been chasing id suspect ndombele would have been on instead of Gedson. Jose was never gonna risk the solidity of sissoko and winks.
Personally id have risked taking Kane off for tanguy but I can understand why jose didnt take off his star striker when he needs a goal. I just didnt see Kane having the legs to make it happen personally.
I actually thought it would have been perfect for him to come on. United were chasing the game so they were playing a higher line which meant space to exploit behind. Imagine if we'd had Son running in behind and the best passer at the club coming on to play him in? Might well have been able to get a second goal. And one of the reasons we miss Dembele so much was because he retained the ball so well when teams tried to press him - Ndombele has shown flashes of an ability to do that as well so when United were going for the high press in the second half he could have made sure we kept possession and even carved out some chances to go 2-0 up.
Your point about Kane illustrates a wider issue that I've raised before - Kane has too much power at Spurs. Klopp will substitute Salah, Pep will substitute Aguero, but Kane never gets substituted here even when he's having a shocker like he was yesterday. Even if we went for Gedson instead of Ndombele as the first sub, we should certainly have taken off Kane for Ndombele and pushed him into an advanced role.
United have been able to carve out so many chances in their past few games because they have such good passers in the side - some of the balls that Fernandes and Pogba were playing were absolutely ridiculous. With Eriksen gone, the only player in our squad who can do that is Ndombele...but for some reason he is not only being left out of the side but our manager is specifically saying that he has "nothing" on the bench. It reminds me of when AVB complained about losing Modric but then also got rid of Van Der Vaart, Huddlestone and Kranjcar to replace them with Dempsey, Dembele and Paulinho, then started wondering why we had lost all of our creativity and ability to move the ball around - the only player we had that actually did fit that mould was Sigurdsson who didn't use enough and when he did then he stuck him out wide instead of playing him in the hole behind the striker where he would have flourished. The football was boring as shit back then and it's been boring as shit this season.
If Ndombele doesn't start against West Ham I think we can conclude that he isn't going to be here next season, which given Alli's return then I think that's unlikely. And that's a terrible shame, because the guy looks like one of the most naturally gifted talents we've had in midfield for a long while.
GLC I agree as an option, but I'm still not sure what Gedson brings to the team.I think he was a victim of the balance of the game. When youre defending a lead he's not the player you want to bring on to add solidity and defensive discipline. Gedson and Lo Celso were better options at the time.
Then when we go 1-1, its difficult as we have already replaced the usual suspects of Lamela and Bergwijn to bring on tanguy, had we been chasing id suspect ndombele would have been on instead of Gedson. Jose was never gonna risk the solidity of sissoko and winks.
Personally id have risked taking Kane off for tanguy but I can understand why jose didnt take off his star striker when he needs a goal. I just didnt see Kane having the legs to make it happen personally.
I could have sworn he was sitting on the bench wearing a Durag at one pointCan someone confirm that he was actually on the bench last night and not in Chick King?
I could have sworn he was sitting on the bench wearing a Durag at one point
Dembele replacement and Eriksen replacement.Iv'e always thought it would be a problem intergrating him and Lo Celso into the same team, would love to know how what Poch had in mind when he signed both of them.
Could be the case but doesn't seem Jose views him as a 10 so back to the dilemma of fitting him and N'Dombele into the same team.Dembele replacement and Eriksen replacement.
Always Unfit*Sell this lard bum Look at the impact of Stevie B in comparison. It's a no brainer. This guy is a joke. He can't run or track back. Always fit. One our best players haha!
Always Unfit*