HalfTimeSayers
Player Valuation: £35m
Dom looked decent when he was being eased back and was getting the last 15mins. Working hard and some neat touches but it’s all very ineffective and safe.You’re not wrong, it’s definitely time for our attackers to stand up and be counted. I count McNeil and Harrison in that too, but it’s clearly DCL and Beto who need to actually start converting. DCL has the lowest conversation rate going this season. The defence is doing their bit.
Was trying to decide whether it’s better to have the battering ram on for 70mins, then bring on the more wily pacey one as the defenders tired, or vice versa. Then realised I’d no idea which way round that would be anyway. Beto is a unit, but doesn’t seem effective as the big man up top. Dom supposedly won 127% of his aerial duals the other week, but none of the resulting headers went within 10 yards of a teammate, mainly because there wasn’t a blue shirt in the same post code.
Has to be Beto I think. Freshen it up, and no good for his mentality watching decent chances missed and still not starting. His swashbuckling randomness might keep the crowd volume up for longer than the first 4 minutes too. Bit of chaos.