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Getting Cabaye back is massive. He can slide in the kind of pass that Cisse thrives on and which has been sorely missed, compounded by the absence of HBA.

 

Was it Stoke at home last season where he took out 4 players with one pass to Papiss. Dat pass :sweetjesus:

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Is he just entirely useless outside of smacking the ball into the net? He didn't have service today, and this is unfortunate, but when he gets the ball in our half, the result is almost always negative. His hold up play, passing, and dribbling are at the Nigerian Premier League level. Unbelievably poor.

 

I do feel bad for him in this team, as he has been miscast.

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It was a shocking misuse of his skills really, the positions he received the ball in meant that he was always going to be ineffective.

Wasn't until Cabaye came on I though he might get something, although cabaye through balls didnt work out thats the kind of thing we need to be doing for him, especially if remy signs.  If we play through balls all opponents will have to drop extremely deep meaning well control the game, if they dont Remy and Cisse will have a field day.

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He was still taking up good positions between defenders etc, which is a good sign. When Cabaye came on it certainly encouraged him too.

 

He's a born goalscorer, if we can get him the ball in the right positions he'll get loads. Big if at the moment of course.

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Yep, it's time for this fella to get back in the swing of it. A goal or two at the weekend could do the lad the world of good.

 

Then again, Big plank Shola is back isn't he, so expect Cisse to be playing out on the right. 

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With Marveaux and HBA either side I'm fairly confident with that attack. Problem is at the moment we're relying on or rather "hoping" for Obertan to do something because we don't have another option. This is exactly the game where he needs to show up but just no confidence he will at all.

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The shot at the end was awful, yes. Until then he was just unlucky, with Federici being fantastic.

The header I can maybe give as a good Federici save but the shot from the cross that Federici saved should have been buried. His second half chance he had so much time and completely fluffed it.

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Cisse is just a significantly inferior footballer to Ba. He has extremely impressive predatory finishing skills when he's confident, but even then offers almost nothing else. Right now, his lack of self-belief has taken away his finishing, and he still offers nothing else. There is definitely a place for him on this team, but he's been "off-form" all season now, which is the majority of his career here.

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