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2022/23 Frank Lampard

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davek said:
He should never have agreed to the sale of Richarlison without having his replacement lined up.

Yes, defence and midfield upgraded, but it means f.a. if you pile a lot of pressure on them by not getting ahead in games with goals.

Lampard should have demanded another striker in once Calvert-Lewin underlined he was an unreliable player for him this season when breaking down in pre-season training.

I'd say we've easily lost 8-10 points with that indecision.
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Couldn’t agree more.

People keep saying we need decent wingers, but you can’t play 433 with wingers. We need a left and right sided forward in the mould of Richy that will grab us potentially 10-15 a season. It’s the main reason Gray and Gordon are struggling at the minute.
 
There’s signs of improvement no doubt. We knew work was needed at the top end of the pitch and that hasn’t changed. If i was Lampard I’d be looking at a formation or personnel change in midfield to give us a bit more going forward. Maybe try McNeill Maupay or Iwobi in the ten behind DCL with the wingers outwide.

We can’t be so fickle though that a few games ago this bloke was walking on water and because he’s lost to United Spurs and Newcastle (two of them away) he’s suddenly useless and we’re getting relegated? We can’t be this knee jerk.

The fixtures came at a bad time for us and these double header away games hack me off when you see other teams get to build momentum with two easy games at home. I’ve alway said they’re unfair and we’re seeing more and more of them cropping up in the calendar.

We really needed a few games against the teams around us at home to build some confidence but aside from Forest it’s been top 6 sides at home along with West Ham.

We’ve taken points in games against Leeds Brentford West Ham Southampton so there’s no reason why we can’t start picking up some points out of the fixtures we have coming up.

We just need a flaming day off from playing the top 6 or difficult away games back to back and eroding all confidence from a fragile group.

Beat Palace and we can stop panicking. Fixtures have not been kind though. We were a lower end bottom half team and this difficult start has probably just drained all confidence away (we’d have even had Arsenal away in there as well if it wasn’t postponed). There’s a lot of teams worse off than us who have had far worse results than us and I can’t see any of them picking up points away at Spurs Newcastle or at home to Chelsea Liverpool United.
 
Saint Domingo said:
There’s signs of improvement no doubt. We knew work was needed at the top end of the pitch and that hasn’t changed. If i was Lampard I’d be looking at a formation or personnel change in midfield to give us a bit more going forward. Maybe try McNeill Maupay or Iwobi in the ten behind Dominic Calvert-Lewin with the wingers outwide.

We can’t be so fickle though that a few games ago this bloke was walking on water and because he’s lost to United Spurs and Newcastle (two of them away) he’s suddenly useless and we’re getting relegated? We can’t be this knee jerk.

The fixtures came at a bad time for us and these double header away games hack me off when you see other teams get to build momentum with two easy games at home. I’ve alway said they’re unfair and we’re seeing more and more of them cropping up in the calendar.

We really needed a few games against the teams around us at home to build some confidence but aside from Forest it’s been top 6 sides at home along with West Ham.

We’ve taken points in games against Leeds Brentford West Ham Southampton so there’s no reason why we can’t start picking up some points out of the fixtures we have coming up.

We just need a flaming day off from playing the top 6 or difficult away games back to back and eroding all confidence from a fragile group.

Beat Palace and we can stop panicking. Fixtures have not been kind though. We were a lower end bottom half team and this difficult start has probably just drained all confidence away (we’d have even had Arsenal away in there as well if it wasn’t postponed). There’s a lot of teams worse off than us who have had far worse results than us and I can’t see any of them picking up points away at Spurs Newcastle or at home to Chelsea Liverpool United.
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its not because we lost those games, its the manner of how we lost them

0 shots on target in over 180 minutes

worrying times
 
CrabbyPaddy said:
Couldn’t agree more.

People keep saying we need decent wingers, but you can’t play 433 with wingers. We need a left and right sided forward in the mould of Richy that will grab us potentially 10-15 a season. It’s the main reason Gray and Gordon are struggling at the minute.
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We're rotting from the front down.

Not an awful lot wrong apart from the major fact we have no one to score. Solve that and we're going to win games and get safe.

I have no confidence whatsoever that we'll sort that out in January though.
 

Saint Domingo said:
There’s signs of improvement no doubt. We knew work was needed at the top end of the pitch and that hasn’t changed. If i was Lampard I’d be looking at a formation or personnel change in midfield to give us a bit more going forward. Maybe try McNeill Maupay or Iwobi in the ten behind Dominic Calvert-Lewin with the wingers outwide.

We can’t be so fickle though that a few games ago this bloke was walking on water and because he’s lost to United Spurs and Newcastle (two of them away) he’s suddenly useless and we’re getting relegated? We can’t be this knee jerk.

The fixtures came at a bad time for us and these double header away games hack me off when you see other teams get to build momentum with two easy games at home. I’ve alway said they’re unfair and we’re seeing more and more of them cropping up in the calendar.

We really needed a few games against the teams around us at home to build some confidence but aside from Forest it’s been top 6 sides at home along with West Ham.

We’ve taken points in games against Leeds Brentford West Ham Southampton so there’s no reason why we can’t start picking up some points out of the fixtures we have coming up.

We just need a flaming day off from playing the top 6 or difficult away games back to back and eroding all confidence from a fragile group.

Beat Palace and we can stop panicking. Fixtures have not been kind though. We were a lower end bottom half team and this difficult start has probably just drained all confidence away (we’d have even had Arsenal away in there as well if it wasn’t postponed). There’s a lot of teams worse off than us who have had far worse results than us and I can’t see any of them picking up points away at Spurs Newcastle or at home to Chelsea Liverpool United.
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We'll find out whether it's to do with fixtures this weekend against Palace. That really should on paper be one we target for all three points.

But look at United also. We were 1-0 up against a team who blow hot and cold and should have had that down as a potential 3 pointer (a few days later United drew with some rubbish Cypriot team).

This is all down to the summer lack of spending on a decent striker. If we had one we'd be 8-10 points better off today. Newcastle were there for the taking last night. They were appalling.
 
CrabbyPaddy said:
Couldn’t agree more.

People keep saying we need decent wingers, but you can’t play 433 with wingers. We need a left and right sided forward in the mould of Richy that will grab us potentially 10-15 a season. It’s the main reason Gray and Gordon are struggling at the minute.
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I don’t really understand that. Surely the wide players in the front of a 433 are by definition wingers?

442 or 352 you’re playing with wide midfielders as opposed to wingers.
 
Lampard spoke of a void in the final third in the days before the window shut and we never brought anyone in.

With Lampards comments around that void, and us trying for Kudus - it's obvious he knows we need more there.

That said, we paid £20m+ for one winger in McNeil, and turned down at least £40m+, potentially near £60m+ for a winger the manager wants to build around on the other flank.

We have Calvert-Lewin upfront now.

The manager loves Iwobi who is behind Calvert-Lewin...

So he can't feel too aggrieved.

I think it's very obvious that there's not enough creativity or goals in this team. It was negligent it wasn't addressed.

Gray, Gordon, Iwobi - none have the composure to make the ball stick in the final third. Iwobi's purple patch aside, they're all pretty poor. We have nobody there who can comfortably knit possession.

When the window shut I said I hope we stay out the bottom 3 and then buy in January.

It's a relegation scrap because 15+ teams comfortably outscore this Everton team.
 
A sign of improvement would have been gaining a point last night. If we could not win the game, then don't lose it. You can't take each game in isolation like that though either but they add up over the course of a season.

This team puts extraordinary pressure on itself to win particular types of games - mostly at home against sides outside of the Top Six, and this weekend is another case in point for that.

We have to be nicking points elsewhere, like last night as we sure as hell aren't going to win all of the "must-win" fixtures, and we haven't already.

I see a slight improvement relative to last season but only slight, and part of that is still dependent on other sides being relatively weaker than last season.

There isn't any real concrete evidence of a sustained, progressive improvement at all though, one that can be relied upon and gives us performances and results with a relative degree of consistency, assuming we are a lower-half side. You could argue very justifiably that such a side can therefore expect 0 points from the last three fixtures but I would disagree with that. 2 points or even one would be better than nothing. It's what keeps the total ticking over and doesn't turn the weekend into another nerve-jangling cup-final of sorts.
 

davek said:
We'll find out whether it's to do with fixtures this weekend against Palace. That really should on paper be one we target for all three points.

But look at United also. We were 1-0 up against a team who blow hot and cold and should have had that down as a potential 3 pointer (a few days later United drew with some rubbish Cypriot team).

This is all down to the summer lack of spending on a decent striker. If we had one we'd be 8-10 points better off today. Newcastle were there for the taking last night. They were appalling.
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It’s down to key errors as well.

Gueye’s sloppiness has seen us punished twice. Iwobi trying to dribble past the best defensive mid in the world. Coleman refusing to challenge a back post header last night. Kane’s dive against us. Gray and Onana missing the target against Spurs.

At the moment we’re getting killed for nearly every single mistake we make. We give the ball away and before we know it someone is curling in a worldie.

The manager can only do so much. We’ve had chances and good positions in all games but we’re being edged out because the forward players don’t have enough conviction with their chances and we’re being ruthlessly punished at the other end.

We’ve probably given away less chances in the three losses than some teams give away in a whole game that they end up winning.

Stop the errors in possession and take a chance or two against Palace and we’re not losing.

Lampard needs a turn in luck as well. Would be nice if an opposition striker put a chance wide for once against us rather than this run of perfect finishing we seem to have against us.
 
Stevie Nicks Bootleg said:
We had "teams around us" fixtures four of the first five games, so it was always likely the next five would be vs top ten/top six teams.
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They were away from home though. It was only Forest at home that we really missed an opportunity. The rest have been Chelsea Liverpool United West Ham.

We’re a bottom half team, home games are our best chance of points. Even better Everton teams have struggled to win away from home with any kind of regularity.

The time to worry is when we’re losing to bottom half teams at home as they’re absolute killers for us. Losing to top half teams away, whilst painful, is really not what our survival is going to be based on.
 

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