NilSatisOptimum
Player Valuation: £70m
Frank gets a pass on the first half injuries for me and is still a good lad.
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Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
They did a number on us yesterday. They set up their press very well and we couldn't find a way out.
They passed around the back because newcatle pressed gomes and allan. Holgate and his defense palls simply had no outlet. Thats on Frank. It was a stupid gameplan, as simple as that. His failure to adapt to that was even bigger failure. He made the same mistakes at Chelsea.
I’m a bit annoyed looking back this was allowed to happen. It’s basic football management.
Zeitgeist
Player Valuation: £35m
Holgates decision making
Coleman's diminished physical state
Gomes and Allan unable to pass 6 yards under a little bit of pressure
Townsend playing LWB (really badly)
2 injuries to key players in the first 35
Sorry but you can't go in on Lampard for that. He was up against it from the first minute when they CMs decided to panic
VDB came on and did fine in the same position as gomes was.
Btw the amount of crosses Townsend put into the crowd was a disgrace, it was Sunday league behaviour.
While he's not be in the best form, the absence of Doucouré in the midfield is a big one as he offers the strength and movement that we so greatly miss.
Missing Mina and Gray will be difficult too. For Saturday, we need to try and field a team that can actually take the game to Leeds as they'll press and press.
Zeitgeist
Player Valuation: £35m
Problem is if we went to a 4 we didn't have a left back, Townsend was bad enough at LWB
We didn’t but we could have asked them to play out less. It seemed like they had to try do it every single time. The amount of misplaced passes and being dispossessed in the first 10 minutes was amateur.
We are in big trouble, make no mistake, but, it is in no way on Lampard. He has only been through the gate for about 5 minutes and is just discovering how bad things are. That said, the big problems we had last night will probably not happen to us too often. We suffered greatly with the two injuries, Gray going off took away our raw blistering pace on the breakout and Mina, once again out medium to long term by the looks of it, is, unfortunately by far our best defender. Add to this the fact that St. Maximin had what will probably be the best game of his career and that Newcastle pressed us hard and Gomes is just not equipped to deal with it.
Last night is gone and all Lampard can do is learn from it. At the weekend we are home to Leeds, another team who will press us hard, we have to come up with a way to deal with it. In my opinion we need three in midfield and Gomes nowhere near the pitch, save him for Southampton away, because,against Leeds he would be a liability. As regards the defence, much as it frightens me, I think we have to go with a 4 with Keane and Holgate in the middle, neither of who I particularly trust, but, needs must.
Well over to you Frank, I hope you have some better ideas than I do, because what I have just come up with would very likely struggle to get anything off Leeds.
Last night is gone and all Lampard can do is learn from it. At the weekend we are home to Leeds, another team who will press us hard, we have to come up with a way to deal with it. In my opinion we need three in midfield and Gomes nowhere near the pitch, save him for Southampton away, because,against Leeds he would be a liability. As regards the defence, much as it frightens me, I think we have to go with a 4 with Keane and Holgate in the middle, neither of who I particularly trust, but, needs must.
Well over to you Frank, I hope you have some better ideas than I do, because what I have just come up with would very likely struggle to get anything off Leeds.
If he relys on the same players as the previous managers he will get the same results.
Coleman can’t be allowed to shaft another manager and just end up getting another run in the team under a new manager because he is captain.
Keane and holgate need punting irrespective of injury’s.
Gomes (who ive always liked and thought was just played in a system that didn’t suit him surely can’t get another start for us now). Needs to be a midfield 3 of Alli - Allan - VDB which actually looked good when played as a 3 last night towards the end.
Has to accept that Townsend is mediocre and move to a Richarlison - DCL - Gray front 3.
Coleman can’t be allowed to shaft another manager and just end up getting another run in the team under a new manager because he is captain.
Keane and holgate need punting irrespective of injury’s.
Gomes (who ive always liked and thought was just played in a system that didn’t suit him surely can’t get another start for us now). Needs to be a midfield 3 of Alli - Allan - VDB which actually looked good when played as a 3 last night towards the end.
Has to accept that Townsend is mediocre and move to a Richarlison - DCL - Gray front 3.
Noisy noise annoys
Player Valuation: £70m
It is this simple, far FAR too early for knee jerk stuff. Won one,lost one.......
Noisy noise annoys
Player Valuation: £70m
Agree with the latter, cannot do much about CB's though due to injry
NilSatisOptimum
Player Valuation: £70m
Gray and Mina uninjured different result. Tactic and press blah blah. Got except the barcodes to be fired up for 20 mins from kick off. The injuries did us last night.
Either frank shouldv catered for gomes/allan shortcomings, or he shouldv changed midgame. He did neither.
Again, i like his idea, but reality shows we cant play nice with this group. We just lost to another average team.
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