Frank Drebin
Player Valuation: £40m
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Are you sure? It's the most expensively acquired squad in non-league history apparently.
Dom1878
Player Valuation: £60m
Awful match, cant really argue with the line up to be honest, I thought Neville and Mcfadden were the worst, they slowed down our play completely. Bily i thought did quite well, he misplaced about 4 or 5 passes, but he did alot of good, and it was in a defensive mid position, and to be completely honest he did no worse than Fellaini. He improved alot when Mcfadden went off, for some reason he went more central and had abit more freedom. Think he also preferred playing with Baines rather than Neville! His movement is very cautious though...
What did everyone think of Coleman at right back? Personally i think i prefer Hibbert still!
Oh and as said previously by some people, our problem isnt money, its the training we do, because our movement is awful, and it needs to be worked on.
What did everyone think of Coleman at right back? Personally i think i prefer Hibbert still!
Oh and as said previously by some people, our problem isnt money, its the training we do, because our movement is awful, and it needs to be worked on.
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Kay20
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Argh. I wish we could have seen this game. Via sound only it sounded like he was doing just fine - marauding up the pitch and combining well like a proper fullback.
Anyone at the game can tell us?
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Kay20
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Oh, so basically he was playing like he was still at RM instead of sticking to the wing and being a fullback. That's not great. Fixable though if Moyes pins him to the wing. But that means the right side was unbalanced.
Dom1878
Player Valuation: £60m
He had abit more freedom, and could go abit more centrally etc, but still not really sure defensively :/
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Kay20
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So Neville kept overlapping and abandoning his post (Gueye must have *loved* that), we gave up a lot of fouls today (14 vs. 7 for Tamworth), Seamus with his freedom kept coming centrally, which is a problem because LD also cuts centrally, leaving the right exposed, Fellaini and Bily had some bad giveaways...and we didn't really make off the ball runs.
Now seeing why we looked like crap.
Elong
The fire rises
I think I nearly shat myself reading that earlier. And it had nothing to do with all the alcohol I've drank the night before.
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Kay20
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If anyone finds highlights can they post them? Can't watch the ones on the official site - blocked.
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Kay20
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From Arteta's Girl on Big Soccer (and occasionally here, though we don't see her as often anymore). She posted this for the Americans on BS, so forgive the emphasis on LD. But I'm posting here anyway as she has some good insights on the game that I underlined since she was physically there, kudos to her for posting. Her opinion of course, but it's detailed, so thought it was relevant:
Ok, there was a few changes from the midweek game due to injury and the team lined up:
--------------------------Howard--------------------------
-----Coleman-----Heitinga------Distin-----Neville-----
---Donovan-----Fellaini-----Bilyaletdinov-----Gueye---
---------------Anichebe---------McFadden---------------
McFadden dropped deeper and Anichebe played a target man role.
We didn't play that well overall yet still created quite a number of good openings.
First goal came from an inswinging corner on the left that Landon took, the keeper came to punch and missed the ball through a crowd of players and it was straight onto Heitinga's head at the far post. It was a really great ball into the box (something we have been lacking).
We created some chances after that with Anichebe having a shot saved and McFadden both shooting and heading other chances just wide.
Tamworth started to come into the game through a mixture of some cheap losing of the ball and stupid free kicks. First Patterson (ex LA Galaxy!) broke from halfway and shot just wide from the edge of the box and then they had a few corners and another half chance or two but nothing of any real threat to our goal.
Earlyish (is that a word? ) into the second half, both Fellaini and Coleman went down injured at the same point, Coleman couldn't carry on but Fellaini did. Baines came on and we brightened up a little. He went in at LB and Neville moved to RB.
Landon then had a half chance, the ball was cut back to him about 15 yards out from goal towards the near post and he sort of flicked it first time with his left foot and it rolled just wide of the far post. Clever touch.
Just after that Drenthe came on for McFadden, this meant Landon moving to the left hand side to play just ahead of Baines as Drenthe slotted in on the right. Gueye moved more central. Stracqualursi was brought on to replace Anichebe too.
Bily had a powerful long range shot saved and the rebound fell kindly for them to clear, instead of to Stracq.
In the 79th minute, Drenthe won a penalty. It was probably a little harsh but I'd say it was a penalty. Baines buried it after a bit of chatter of who to take it, Drenthe/Bilyaletdinov both trying but Baines is number 1.
Tamworth threw everything forward and had a few free kicks and headers but again nothing really to threaten Timmy.
Landon then had a few more chances, firstly he clipped a beautiful curling shot from around 25 yards out onto the corner of the post/bar with the keeper well beaten. Then he looped a half chance over from the edge of the box (he was trying to lob it over the keeper I think).
Overall, we didn't play great, but credit to Tamworth they defended well, we put in quite a number of crosses and they cleared their lines really good.
With regards to Landon, along with Sylvain Distin, he was in my opinion our best player today. He picked up a LOT of loose balls on the edge of our own box from clearances and headers. He drove forward well and carried the ball pretty well, he was certainly positive with what he was trying to do.
I believe it's hard at the moment with all the players out and the difference in confidence between now and when he was here last, it'll be tougher but I noticed something that I thought was pretty interesting. Midway through the first half there were a few cheap turnovers in possession and a few players were getting frustrated with the lack of "wavelength" between players. LD was in there talking the whole time, communicating, trying to work it out and ways to improve the situation, like any good captain would.
I don't know whether I was being ignorant in his last stint but he was certainly taking more of a 'leader' standpoint in the team today, as opposed to maybe a more laidback and going with the flow of last time where we were a team flowing with big characters (Cahill/Arteta/Pienaar/Jagielka/Osman all players and huge characters, influential players that he played regularly with last time and weren't out there today). I don't think he felt the need to take such a role last time but I think he feels he has to step up here.That is how I saw it and was watching carefully today. I don't know, I just found it kind of interesting...
With regards to his actual play..he had a few chances and could have had a goal to add to his assist. He put a few good balls into the box. He also did some beautiful spreading of the play as a kind of pivot from wing to wing in a central attacking midfield role on the break. He did give the ball away a few times whilst in good positions on the break late on but I put that down to tiredness. 2x90minutes in 4 days is a lot to ask of him but he does it without any fuss. A top pro.
Distin was the only player who could really touch him as player of the match and most people I've spoken to have given it to one or the other.
Overall as a team, not very good but a win is a win and we are in the draw tomorrow (another game for LD). Timmy didn't have much to do really but dealt with a few good crosses under pressure. Landon, ok, could be better but still better than the rest.
Ok, there was a few changes from the midweek game due to injury and the team lined up:
--------------------------Howard--------------------------
-----Coleman-----Heitinga------Distin-----Neville-----
---Donovan-----Fellaini-----Bilyaletdinov-----Gueye---
---------------Anichebe---------McFadden---------------
McFadden dropped deeper and Anichebe played a target man role.
We didn't play that well overall yet still created quite a number of good openings.
First goal came from an inswinging corner on the left that Landon took, the keeper came to punch and missed the ball through a crowd of players and it was straight onto Heitinga's head at the far post. It was a really great ball into the box (something we have been lacking).
We created some chances after that with Anichebe having a shot saved and McFadden both shooting and heading other chances just wide.
Tamworth started to come into the game through a mixture of some cheap losing of the ball and stupid free kicks. First Patterson (ex LA Galaxy!) broke from halfway and shot just wide from the edge of the box and then they had a few corners and another half chance or two but nothing of any real threat to our goal.
Earlyish (is that a word? ) into the second half, both Fellaini and Coleman went down injured at the same point, Coleman couldn't carry on but Fellaini did. Baines came on and we brightened up a little. He went in at LB and Neville moved to RB.
Landon then had a half chance, the ball was cut back to him about 15 yards out from goal towards the near post and he sort of flicked it first time with his left foot and it rolled just wide of the far post. Clever touch.
Just after that Drenthe came on for McFadden, this meant Landon moving to the left hand side to play just ahead of Baines as Drenthe slotted in on the right. Gueye moved more central. Stracqualursi was brought on to replace Anichebe too.
Bily had a powerful long range shot saved and the rebound fell kindly for them to clear, instead of to Stracq.
In the 79th minute, Drenthe won a penalty. It was probably a little harsh but I'd say it was a penalty. Baines buried it after a bit of chatter of who to take it, Drenthe/Bilyaletdinov both trying but Baines is number 1.
Tamworth threw everything forward and had a few free kicks and headers but again nothing really to threaten Timmy.
Landon then had a few more chances, firstly he clipped a beautiful curling shot from around 25 yards out onto the corner of the post/bar with the keeper well beaten. Then he looped a half chance over from the edge of the box (he was trying to lob it over the keeper I think).
Overall, we didn't play great, but credit to Tamworth they defended well, we put in quite a number of crosses and they cleared their lines really good.
With regards to Landon, along with Sylvain Distin, he was in my opinion our best player today. He picked up a LOT of loose balls on the edge of our own box from clearances and headers. He drove forward well and carried the ball pretty well, he was certainly positive with what he was trying to do.
I believe it's hard at the moment with all the players out and the difference in confidence between now and when he was here last, it'll be tougher but I noticed something that I thought was pretty interesting. Midway through the first half there were a few cheap turnovers in possession and a few players were getting frustrated with the lack of "wavelength" between players. LD was in there talking the whole time, communicating, trying to work it out and ways to improve the situation, like any good captain would.
I don't know whether I was being ignorant in his last stint but he was certainly taking more of a 'leader' standpoint in the team today, as opposed to maybe a more laidback and going with the flow of last time where we were a team flowing with big characters (Cahill/Arteta/Pienaar/Jagielka/Osman all players and huge characters, influential players that he played regularly with last time and weren't out there today). I don't think he felt the need to take such a role last time but I think he feels he has to step up here.That is how I saw it and was watching carefully today. I don't know, I just found it kind of interesting...
With regards to his actual play..he had a few chances and could have had a goal to add to his assist. He put a few good balls into the box. He also did some beautiful spreading of the play as a kind of pivot from wing to wing in a central attacking midfield role on the break. He did give the ball away a few times whilst in good positions on the break late on but I put that down to tiredness. 2x90minutes in 4 days is a lot to ask of him but he does it without any fuss. A top pro.
Distin was the only player who could really touch him as player of the match and most people I've spoken to have given it to one or the other.
Overall as a team, not very good but a win is a win and we are in the draw tomorrow (another game for LD). Timmy didn't have much to do really but dealt with a few good crosses under pressure. Landon, ok, could be better but still better than the rest.
ToffeeBlueNose
Player Valuation: £30m
just about to watch highlights on itv, i was working yesterday, see if we are as bad as the scoreline suggests, no open play goals again, fecking hell we are cack.
Get Mendy on FFS what a goal for macclesfield
Get Mendy on FFS what a goal for macclesfield
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