Smal

Thought whilst reading his quotes this week that he was going to do it all by himself today. Sounded well up for it anarl

These shots, man. Why?

AC not involved at all then?

thought he was pretty much our best player at the weekend. Only Taylor and Santon close to him. completed eight dribbles vs West Ham. West Ham as a team managed one between them (Modibo Maiga)

I'd say he already is a very good player tbh. Has been underused a bit in the most important years of his development though

Oba

Cabaye has to be a lot further up the pitch than that and I'm not convinced Anita and Tioté will be able to play in the same team. From what Unbelievable! says and from what I've seen, Anita has to be the deepest midfielder who picks the ball up off the centre halves. That would mean Tioté playing higher up the pitch, where I don't think he'd be very effective.

Dreadful, like we have been for 90% of the season. We have vastly superior players, yet an Allardyce team are playing better football than us. Pardew needs to sort this out in the next couple few months. If he doesn't then a change is needed.

Jonás in the middle in a midfield 3 is fine. In a two, not so much

Can't see us winning this with that line up

You can see the reasoning behind it though. Adebayor is infinitely better at holding the ball up, which they'll need against Man City because their midfield alone isn't sufficient enough to keep possession in games like this.

eurgh

think it is. Taylor was warming up even in the first half. Wouldn't be surprised to see Ferguson come on for Anita as well

aye, deliveries have been far better than Cabaye's

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this is infuriating

Sammy really needs to work on kicking a ball, like

the fuck are our lot doing? Don't even look remotely arsed.

two games in a row Colo's been beaten by a simple ball over the top. Should be defended very easily.

Llorente on a free at the end of the season?

how many more appearances does Xisco have to make before we pay more money for him?

Not far off a million over 5 years

christ, if we signed someone like Benat then our style would have to have a major overhaul otherwise he'd be totally wasted.

Well that logic is flawed, because by playing on the left Cissé will never hit any form

yeah, at this moment he's too raw to start league games imo. He'd end up losing the ball a lot of times if he played from the start and it'd do him more harm than good. Give him a few starts here and there in the other competitions by all means though.