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By the sounds of it, missing the game for a drag show wasn’t so bad after all. And Bianca Del Rio showed more balls than our entire team
........................Lloris 6.5
Sanchez 5.5 Toby 6.5 Vert 6.5 Davies 6
Moura 6 Winks 7 NDombele 5.5 Dele 5
.......................Eriksen 5.5
.................Kane 6.5
Poch 5.5
A very sloppy performance and probably fortunate to get the point. Paid the price of rotating in less than 100% fit players. This situation of a side coming at us usually is to our benefit because we get them on the break. Not tonight. Our whole game lacked tempo and we brought pressure on ourselves by allowing them to recover comfortably.
Pretty poor all round. Eriksen in particular was very poor and gave the ball away continuously. Winks ran around a lot and worked hard.
Our biggest problem is that we have no defensive shield so our centre backs are continuously bombarded with attack after attack.
And yet Poch leaves him on for 90mins!Eriksen. What the fuck was that all about?
Alli in the groove.You are taking the piss surely?Amended...
.....................Lloris 6.5
Sanchez 5.5 Toby 6.5 Vert 6.5 Davies 7
Moura 7 Winks 7.5 NDombele 5.5 Dele 7.5
.......................Eriksen 5.5
.................Kane 7
I thought Dele got into the groove in this one and Winks gained stature
Eriksen was a disaster and NDombele needs to get control of the ball and control what's going on, he isn't up to speed by far yet (he has talent for sure)
I give Poch the weakest mark for this. So many iffy performances, slow build up's to start etc
Alli in the groove.You are taking the piss surely?
Alli in the groove.You are taking the piss surely?
Agree with most of what's been said. Winks the obvious standout, lacklustre performance etc etc.
I think Ndombele is a weird one. He had a pretty average game and made a few mistakes, but I still think his general passing is such a step up from Winks and Sissoko. There were a few times when, upon receiving the ball, he made a quick, incisive, perfectly weighted pass through Olympiacos' midfield to put us on the attack. This is something that none of our midfielders in recent years have really been able to do. Winks might pull off one such pass every 3 or 4 games, but Ndombele has the capacity to do that 3 or 4 times per game. As soon as Sissoko came on, while far more mobile and capable of making driving runs, he was misplacing and underhitting simple passes all over the place.
However, Ndombele also looked so physically laboured. I'm still not sure how much of this is due to his heavy, languid running style (which was the same at Lyon) and how much it's him being unfit/tired by the heat. Either way it's a bit worrying.
Absolutely, yet the SC experts have our DM as Motm.Pretty poor all round. Eriksen in particular was very poor and gave the ball away continuously. Winks ran around a lot and worked hard.
Our biggest problem is that we have no defensive shield so our centre backs are continuously bombarded with attack after attack.
Diet played RB in his first season for us.I’m not going to put too much blame on Sanchez as we’ve seen previously that he’s not a RB.
If he wanted to rest Aurier and if KWP isn’t fully fit, Poch could have swapped Toby with Sanchez or played Sissoko at RB (he’s a better RB than Sanchez although neither are actual RBs) and would have done a better job than just sitting on the bench in the first hour or so.