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Feel like his form has dipped the more we've moved to 4-4-2 and he's playing far far to away from goal. He needs to be in and around the box to be able to use his good striking sills to actually strike the ball around the box.

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Time's up on the left. I love his attitude but he was playing as some sort of playmaker yesterday and it just ruined our shape with him constantly coming inside. 2 lads up top that like crosses and we essentially play with one wide midfielder. I think he'd work well with a target man up front but he's just not up to it on the left, doesn't even make any runs behind anymore.

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I'm finished with him.

 

At best, completely pointless but might get a tap in, at worst a complete liability. He's kept on for ninety minutes because he runs round a bit, then he ambles back and watches Osman score with no attempt to close.

 

Got absolutely no time for pointless footballers like him whilst we're in the Premier League. Come back if we go down and you might get a game.

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I don't understand why he's wandering into central midfield so much more recently. If Pardew picks him out wide because he wants him to work up and down the line that's arguably understandable, but he's definitely not a playmaker.

This. HBA gets torn apart by the likes of Pardew for not contributing defensively and having no positional discipline yet Gouffran spent most of the game today out of position and offered nothing defensively.

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Think Gouffrans had some excellent games in midfield. Although I wouldn't play him there personally. Seems to me that he's A: Been Pardew'd into becoming a defensive wide-man when he should be a wide-forward or striker and B: he's suffering from extreme burnout (as as Sissoko).

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I saw right through him tonight. If he finds himself out wide in some space, he might have some responsibility (usually he manages to shirk it by giving it to Dummett but their second goal, for example, he can't do that, loses it, goal). If he stays central, he can pop it straight off to Tiote and stay well out of the bad books of idiots who prefer to take it out on players who are trying something like Sissoko and HBA.

 

Up there with Dyer vs Norwich for one of the all time worst performances that I've witnessed from a player in a black and white shirt. No hyperbole.

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