Depressing analysis from Jenas who is bang on. Sissoko and Dier in particular just dont seem to make angles to receive the ball and pass forward.
The positive is it genuinely cant get any worse and if we can recruit well and get Ndombele up to speed it will be a massive improvement
We must be a central midfielder in January
That aged wellGet Vertonghen off, this is not going to end well...
We know all about Dier and Sissoko. They are far from good enough technically to be regulars in our midfield but they were there to do the defensive job today.Depressing analysis from Jenas who is bang on. Sissoko and Dier in particular just dont seem to make angles to receive the ball and pass forward.
The positive is it genuinely cant get any worse and if we can recruit well and get Ndombele up to speed it will be a massive improvement
We must be a central midfielder in January
The point I'm making is we didn't play well, teams win and play poorly all the time this was one of those times.
We were hitting too many long balls and effectively giving the ball back to wolves inviting pressure, and while the plan may have been to hit them on the counter it was executed poorly and IMO we didn't threaten them once (on the counter).
You said the counter was effective I'm saying it wasn't in this game, if we try these tactics and perform them as poorly as we did today, better teams will destroy us.
I noticed that tooThat was one thing I picked up, we won so many headers when defending crosses and set pieces, it definitely looks like something mourinho has been working on.
The Jenas analysis link anyone?