That's the best Winks has played for sometime. A welcome sight.
But PEH was MOTM...ran it. And some lovely progressive zippy passing on show.
Best half of football under Jose. We're looking good despite the officials fucking us.
man, if people cant see that WInks stitched the team together all game I dont know what they are watching.
He did play well but I do think Lo Celso in the same role can do everything Winks does with the more eye pleasing stuff on top.i actually think they’re Berry similar players but Lo Celso is the superior version.If they can't see that Mourinho values him hugely then they are even more blind. As did Poch before.
He's not there to make mazy runs at defenders; or try hail mary passes. He's there to keep us solid and metronomic and to give the ball to the other guys to do the flashy shit.
Played well today.
Wouldn’t argue with that. Except I don’t think gio would be as happy to sacrifice his own game as Winks is. For obvious reasons (gio is much more talented)He did play well but I do think Lo Celso in the same role can do everything Winks does with the more eye pleasing stuff on top.i actually think they’re Berry similar players but Lo Celso is the superior version.
I guess my thought is that he wouldn’t have to. He coupe do what Winks does and still play sharp passes and drive forward with the ball. Watching him I just feel that, much like Modric beforehand, while he can play number 10 due to his obvious talent, he’s far better in the middle setting as much of the play as possible and orchestrating from deep.Wouldn’t argue with that. Except I don’t think gio would be as happy to sacrifice his own game as Winks is. For obvious reasons (gio is much more talented)
I guess my thought is that he wouldn’t have to. He coupe do what Winks does and still play sharp passes and drive forward with the ball. Watching him I just feel that, much like Modric beforehand, while he can play number 10 due to his obvious talent, he’s far better in the middle setting as much of the play as possible and orchestrating from deep.
Not that I want to denigrate Winks, who was very good today.
I felt masochistic after the penalty decision that I’d have gladly done this to myself.we’re kicking our wounds.
I think Lamela made us more threatening. We were playing around their box and playing more forward passes when he and Ndombele came on. I believe Bergwijn was okay but made less of a difference than Lamela.Bergwijn 7 - did fine but we were a lot less threatening
Lamela 6 - looked ok but didn't really do much
Lucas moura is just not good enough start for a cl team. Impact sub at most. Luckily we now have bale.
He been average for quite a while. Hardly ever keeps possession.
Can't believe he's kept his place.
He hasn't really had a run of games though. He's just been a bit part player. We've seen enough of lucas to know he's a limited player.Clearly you haven't been paying attention to the form of Steve Bergwijn.
He hasn't really had a run of games though. He's just been a bit part player. We've seen enough of lucas to know he's a limited player.
I thought we made them look really average. Was a good performance by my book . We keep playing like that we will have a good season ... I hopeThat was an exceedingly bad newcastle side, that made us look good.
Ultimately it was only lucas who scored, so he gets the award for me.
For all the moaning about VAR, it was the ref peter bankes who looked at the monitor and made the call.
Fans have to remember their enemies, and give them hell the next time, next season.
He can join the list along with Michael Oliver (var ref, sheffield vs spurs) and mike dean who knows what he is.