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Good shift, beat his man several times and a couple of good crosses. Basically everything we are missing playing a cm on the wing. Time to drop colback and push Gini back inside.

Everybody can see that but can mclaren?
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Watching the game back again now (it's re-run on TV) and in the space of about 5 minutes he put in 4 class crosses which no one got on the end of. Rinsed Hutton for 3 of them too.  Hope to see more of that from him. Needs to be starting games though

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Colo played some decent long passes today I thought. Dummett just smashed it forwards aimlessly and most of the time out of play.

 

Colo played some nice passes on the floor into Cisse and Sissoko's feet. Dummet is terrible on the ball. Whereas a decent player passes the ball to another player, Dummett always passes the ball to an "area." He's the typical no talent kid stuck at fullback at school: you tell good players to try and pick out so-an-so up top, you tell a Dummett to "hit it up the channel." At least he looks like he thinks that when he gets the ball

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One thing I have to give credit to McClaren for is his willingness to put Thauvin on at the end of games, regardless of whether we are chasing a game or defending a lead. Pardew/Carver would have just thrown Gouffran on. One of the few indications that McClaren is a little more adventurous. We have all been saying for years that the worst thing to do when we are leading is to just chuck on players who the manager thinks can 'track back' and doesn't offer too much 'fret'

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One thing I have to give credit to McClaren for is his willingness to put Thauvin on at the end of games, regardless of whether we are chasing a game or defending a lead. Pardew/Carver would have just thrown Gouffran on. One of the few indications that McClaren is a little more adventurous. We have all been saying for years that the worst thing to do when we are leading is to just chuck on players who the manager thinks can 'track back' and doesn't offer too much 'fret'

 

true. its...."brave" and i like it!

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Thauvin was class yesterday, his first touches his pace on the ball in those conditions and he got every cross in the right area. Was very impressed, there is a player in there for us!

As per the points above, I would also rather we dropped one of Anita/Colback and bring Wijnadlum into the middle. Actually, i think if we were to do that we need to bring Tiote back into the middle and drop both anita and colback and go something like this:

------------------------------------fats--------------------------------------

Janmmaaaat------Mbemba--------------Colo-----------Mbabu (dummet just gets worse)

-------------------------------Tiote-----------------------------------

Perez------------Wiji---------------DeJong-----------Sissoko

---------------------------Nitro------------------------------------

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