I’m just not seeing it with him at the moment. Considering how high up he is playing he offers us very little going forward. And I’d worry about his lack of pace & physicality if he played as one of the two central midfielders.
He would have probably got another 20 minutes if he didn’t get that stupid booking for a silly tackle.
Yes it was a really bad miss but you can’t let your head drop like he did. He was non existent after that.
Are we absolutely sure we won’t get dragged into a relegation battle….
So so many weaknesses in this team. Losing Ndiaye to the AFCON removes a massive portion of our attacking threat.
How a professional football manager decided to bring McNeil on there with what we’ve seen this year, is beyond me. A pathetic, scandalous decision.
Would have brought on Alcaraz, Rohl, Iroegbunam or even Seamus on before him.
Need to find alternative ways of attacking other than every attack being Grealish or Ndiaye stuck on the touchline with 2/3 defenders around them or to put in cross after cross with only Beto/Barry having any remote chance of winning a header.
Imagine how good he and Grealish would be with full backs who can overlap and interplay.
P.s does anyone have any stats about how much of our play goes through the left when Grealish plays. Feels to me like we ignore the right(Ndiaye) too much when he does.