I have been a 9 for a while, if we had penalties given ever, or red cards against other teams, or we didn`t hit the post or have bad deflections I would be a 6. After today i`m more of a 7.
He needs pace in this league. Just hasn't got it and hasn't got that extra bit of quality to overcome it either.
It looks like last season broke him physically playing nearly every game at 100mph and he hasn`t still recovered.
Perez didn`t do anything amazing, good goal didn`t balls it up like some of our team would, good skill for a freekick, didnt stop running, he look mullered at the end.
In a perfect world I would want two class CM and I would keep Shelvey and Merino for the bench. Get rid of Hayden, he never really got going this year.
This.
I didn`t think either were until I saw the replays. Maybe I saw it wrong, remembered wrong or just don`t know outside of clear cut what constitutes a penalty anymore.
Who was it telling blob which way to dive before Ayew took the pen, my picture wasn`t great. It was Saviet or Atsu ? Whispered in his ear, think that put Ayew off.
Was just thinking about that yesterday. Never ever seem to get pel's.
TBH we never pass the ball into the box in order for the receiving player to be tripped etc. We also never have a player run directly into the box with the intent to cause panic and poorly timed challenges. Are we actually a football team? Who knows.
This is very true, but we have had our players cut in two whilst casually playing the ball sideways, backwards or just staring at it.