Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
1 shot on target in 90 again, I think this particular stat is becoming more and more regular and that's worrying, can't win if you can't score, can't score if you don't shoot on target.
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Dirty Dutch
Player Valuation: £1m
When we win the ball our attacking midfielder and forwards have to turn up and create something but thats the whole problem. Barkley never sees the right solution our wingers are Championship level and our striker cant hold a ball. With these players you will have the same problems over and over again. A guy like Lennon or Valencia works verry hard but their quality when they have the ball is shocking.
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
Not great no, but it needs to be put into the context of the game. The Harlem Globe Trotters only managed 4, and they've been pounding teams this season with their attacking play.
Right. I watch football for a living, so don't patronise me.
I know full well how the DoF model works.
A manager sets out a style of play and identifies the 'type' of player who he wants, working alongside the DOF to do that.
The DOF then identifies and signs those players to fit that mould.
Let's say we sign Schneiderlin, a player who Koeman knows extremely well and actually played his best football under him.
That's a Koeman target.
Gueye had in the past been sought by Koeman, and Walsh. Bolasie, likewise, had been praised by Koeman as a player he'd like to sign while he was at Saints.
And okay, Sissoko actually didn't start a match in the Euros until, off the top of my head, the third group game - when France were playing a 4-2-3-1.
In the knockout stages, they stuck to a 4-3-3, and Sissoko played in I believe three of the four games.
He was - and always has been, since he came from the ranks at Toulouse - better in central areas, either on the side of a three or in an advanced role like where he played at Newcastle when he first arrived.
He's been shoehorned out wide as he's got pace and power, but isn't a winger.
But okay.
One of which was the goal, one of which was a [Poor language removed] that hit Stek's head, and one of which was the Robles save.
The other one, if i'm not mistaken, was a pea roller.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
Koeman is paid £6million a year. Surely, with the players he has, he can get a better tune out of those he has.
I agree, we can't expect miracles. I think it is though reasonable to expect more than going back to front in one go or getting Seamus Coleman to run himself into the ground.
We are better than that. I truly believe that.
Thing is, we had the effort and mostly always do.
As you said, they're a given - they should always be there.
But we have lacked the application of that passion until the Arsenal game, where we actually played a high-tempo, high-pressure game.
That also happened in the first half vs Liverpool.
One thing changed - McCarthy's injury - and the entire pressing stopped. Barry can't do it.
Subs were absolutely inexcusably shocking and lost us the game. Tom Davies is probably the best young player we have at the club and he can't even get on the bench. Why was Kenny there?
We are talking about a club that paid £10million to get rid of somebody who made us mid-table in the first place though aren't we...
Lowery Hull had more efforts than us Liverpool's keeper had more to do in the first 15 minutes - it was a typical Derby with a typical twist in their favour a scuffed shot that fell nice, though our defenders were asleep to the on a minute earlier the ball bounced off a defender safely as Lukaku ran in on a dribble in their favour - thats them all over I am afraid years of watching these games to beat them you have to have a classier team than we have atm!
Coleman blocked one on the line that was going in as well.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
Genuinely don't know the point you're making here mate?
Were they?
The Calvert-Lewin one was poor, granted.
The Barry one? Well it's the only option we have. We all bang on about Davies but how many of us have seen him play more than about 2 hours of Prem football. I haven't.
I'm not saying I don't think he shouldn't be in, but d'you think him coming on yesterday would have won us the game? We'll never know...
Couldn't really do much about the goalkeeper mate...
Ah, that must have been the other one. The pea roller may have been in the first half then...
But yeh, good block by Seamus - they had torn us apart.
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