Different player with a different role and position plays differently is quite a sentiment.
They are different players like that though its not Onana's fault that we spent a massive chunk of our budget on a player who doesn't have the attributes we most need or most suit the team.
They're not hardly different - Onana's role is to get the ball back and recycle more than anything, Bruno aims to go higher up the pitch and is much more creative, but as you said - the players ahead of that little RAT actually move their legs and look for the ball, whereas we don't and we just hoof for days.
That’s a very logical way of looking at it. Doucoure has scored some important goals this season but he isn’t a number 10. Likewise neither is Gomes, his ball retention is good and he has vision to pick a pass but he lacks mobility. Harrison would probably be most suited to the role but we haven’t got a perfect fit for that role. The major problem for me isn’t just the chances been missed. It’s the use of the ball when we turn it over which on our better performance we have done effectively. The other week against United we should have created far better chance with the position we found ourselves in. A better quality attack would have put them to the sword. We have probably dropped 20 points on that metric alone. That then puts extra pressure on the defensive line because we are not making the most of our attacking opportunities.
Facts are facts, he has just won the Mike Walker trophy
Yeah I saw a few times last night in the second half when we counter attacked, a good pass would have set someone away. Although having slugs up top also causes and issue
Good pass. Not just Onana but there was a spell when we literally couldn't pass to feet over five yards. Abysmal. One time looked like we could break on them and we contrived to give them the ball straight back on the counter counter. It's like anti football. Horrific.Yeah I saw a few times last night in the second half when we counter attacked, a good pass would have set someone away. Although having slugs up top also causes and issue
It’s dire for sure. You just know for sure when we have players breaking there’s going to be a misplaced pass or McNeill will get it and stop, turn around 360 degrees on his left foot and then pass it 45 yards backwards.
Backwards I can get on board with if it moves the oppo around. This passage I was referring to was like under 5s. Literally no football IQ. I'm enraged now just thinking about it.
Yeah, he's not too far wrong though is he? He is marginally better than Benitez and Lampard and pretty much on a par with Walker. In fact he is very little Walker, Walker was arrogant and believed he knew better than everyone else and that if he just kept doing the same thing, it would be ok in the end.
