- Jul 15, 2014
- 3,592
- 11,648
3's or lower all round in what was possibly all in all the worst performance I've seen at home for many years.
Chiriches was an absolute liability and playing next to Kaboul that is quite an honour. For the love of god please play Vertonghen and Fazio in PL now.
Capoue. Looked like Huddlestone without the passing ability today. So so much hype on back of a pre season tour and a game against on the day laughable opposition (QPR). I'm waiting to see why I'm told he's one of first names of teamsheet.
Eriksen. Had concerns all summer over Eriksen and how he's gonna work in a Poch team. Think overall he's had an extremely poor start to season considering his talent and standing. He's supposed to be our star, as it stands I wouldn't be too averse to him being dropped. He's been anonymous numerous times before but even his set piece delivery was shocking.
Dembele. Back to the AVB version today. So so slow on the ball, back to wanting to play at his tempo which has major drawbacks to team. He could be one of best CMs in Europe, beyond frustrating his unending inconsistency.
Lamela. As much as I rate him you can't say he's looked like a 30m player yet. His talent is there clearly problem is he's simply trying far too hard. Every time he gets ball it seems like he's having a fit trying to show how good he is. So many times today he took on a man when should have shifted the ball quickly. Tactics don't help. Considering he's possibly only guy who can beat a man and actually do something how many times is he close to danger zone? I don't like him where he is, I want him far higher up pitch.
Adebayor. Worried, very worried. The whole vice captain thing. I've tried but I can't shake from my head the whole he doesn't care once he's comfortable. Today was that Adebayor. Deserves to be dropped.
Lennon. One of the only players who has pace and can beat a man in squad. Just a shame in ten years he's not worked out what to do next. Should have replaced him with an actual useful pacey player in summer.
Formation. I've got serious concerns over this 4-2-3-1 formation. Not just as I'm not convinced the players we have fit it. It's so back foot. Not even in a good way today, considering we had two DMs the space Berahino had to rip our CBs apart was embarrassing at times. Supposed to have 3 number 10s interchanging is all well and good until think that two thirds time they're in position that aren't suited to them. And well we had no number tens today, Lamela running trying to beat three players, Chadli invisible and Eriksen not pressing or creating.
I hope today is a wake up call. In terms of this system working and Poch getting best out of talented squad we are months away from seeing fruition of his work. The so called second string got ripped to pieces following a draw vs Serbian champions, I hope today's offers a bit more balance. We are in the infant stages of a longer process for the whole squad.
Chiriches was an absolute liability and playing next to Kaboul that is quite an honour. For the love of god please play Vertonghen and Fazio in PL now.
Capoue. Looked like Huddlestone without the passing ability today. So so much hype on back of a pre season tour and a game against on the day laughable opposition (QPR). I'm waiting to see why I'm told he's one of first names of teamsheet.
Eriksen. Had concerns all summer over Eriksen and how he's gonna work in a Poch team. Think overall he's had an extremely poor start to season considering his talent and standing. He's supposed to be our star, as it stands I wouldn't be too averse to him being dropped. He's been anonymous numerous times before but even his set piece delivery was shocking.
Dembele. Back to the AVB version today. So so slow on the ball, back to wanting to play at his tempo which has major drawbacks to team. He could be one of best CMs in Europe, beyond frustrating his unending inconsistency.
Lamela. As much as I rate him you can't say he's looked like a 30m player yet. His talent is there clearly problem is he's simply trying far too hard. Every time he gets ball it seems like he's having a fit trying to show how good he is. So many times today he took on a man when should have shifted the ball quickly. Tactics don't help. Considering he's possibly only guy who can beat a man and actually do something how many times is he close to danger zone? I don't like him where he is, I want him far higher up pitch.
Adebayor. Worried, very worried. The whole vice captain thing. I've tried but I can't shake from my head the whole he doesn't care once he's comfortable. Today was that Adebayor. Deserves to be dropped.
Lennon. One of the only players who has pace and can beat a man in squad. Just a shame in ten years he's not worked out what to do next. Should have replaced him with an actual useful pacey player in summer.
Formation. I've got serious concerns over this 4-2-3-1 formation. Not just as I'm not convinced the players we have fit it. It's so back foot. Not even in a good way today, considering we had two DMs the space Berahino had to rip our CBs apart was embarrassing at times. Supposed to have 3 number 10s interchanging is all well and good until think that two thirds time they're in position that aren't suited to them. And well we had no number tens today, Lamela running trying to beat three players, Chadli invisible and Eriksen not pressing or creating.
I hope today is a wake up call. In terms of this system working and Poch getting best out of talented squad we are months away from seeing fruition of his work. The so called second string got ripped to pieces following a draw vs Serbian champions, I hope today's offers a bit more balance. We are in the infant stages of a longer process for the whole squad.