Joelinton

[Happinesstan]

2 hours ago, Lotus said:

That’s not enough really. To only have a player who can tackle. 
He’s very capable of carrying the ball forward and he can play the ball forward to a decent level as well.

Unfortunately he didn’t do those 2 much at all today.

You can’t only put in a performance when a certain other player is on the pitch. 

Wolves defended well today, tbf.

[ExiledGeordie]

He’s quality but given he’s played further forward in another life you’d still think he’d carry more threat in the final 3rd. Power puff mostly when he gets into the box 

[tomlynnherrington]

Big Joe is ok if we’re happy to simply break into the top ten.Not good enough if we’re to get anywhere near 6th or higher.

[simonsays]

1 minute ago, tomlynnherrington said:

Big Joe is ok if we’re happy to simply break into the top ten.Not good enough if we’re to get anywhere near 6th or higher.

Nonsense

[gbandit]

Complete and utter tripe like, teams don’t know what to do with Joelinton. He completely disrupts their play, he’s priceless 

[RodneyCisse]

3 hours ago, David Edgar said:

 

He just needs Bruno or another midfield orchestrator to play off.  He's a proper destroyer and can't be expected to dictate the play.

When you have longstaff hiding/Joe sometimes quite obviously not passing to him it makes it harder.

[Pata]

3 hours ago, tomlynnherrington said:

Big Joe is ok if we’re happy to simply break into the top ten.Not good enough if we’re to get anywhere near 6th or higher.

 

A whole week after his monstrous performance against Man City, good lord.

[Kanji]

I think the point we need to think about is he is an attacking player in his past life so just many being hopeful he can be more additive to that side of the game too. 

[Oregon_Geordie]

Love the guy. Agree on Longstaff hiding a little also. Think there was one point where Schar had the ball and was looking for an angle to pass into Longstaff. He never moved to open it up but stayed hidden behind the midfielder. Basics. Big Jo is there to break the play, the other two have the license to create, and today both did little. Also, the amount of ground he covers both centrally and for ASM on the left is ridiculous. I'd argue we would miss him more than Bruno in a game.

[BennyBlanco]

Again, so good today. He’s the footballing equivalent of throwing a firework into a popular dogging hotspot. Just causes complete and utter pandemonium to a teams midfield game plan and it’s a joy to behold.

[bowlingcrofty]

Didn’t think he looked his usual self mind. Still better than the other two in the middle mind.

[mattypnufc]

2 hours ago, bowlingcrofty said:

Didn’t think he looked his usual self mind. Still better than the other two in the middle mind.

I think having to do the work for Longstaffs absolute lack of it didn’t help. 

[Anon]

He's basically like a golden retriever in there, he's going to break up loads of play, make a few runs, trip over his feet and lose it a few times.

[Dr. TC]

I think all of you are right. Great disruption, huge presence, useful forward carrying, but poor passing decision making at times and trying to do too much because there was no other creative presence in the middle of the park. 

 

He will easily be a top 6 player if he has better midfielders around him, letting him play to his strengths. 

[tomlynnherrington]

6 hours ago, Pata said:

 

A whole week after his monstrous performance against Man City, good lord.

And a week after his ‘monstrous’ performance he was poor 😉

[Dr Jinx]

He was trying to do too much yesterday, in doing so lost the ball a number of times with loose passes or being tackled.

 

It was nothing that cost us but not his best game in recent times. Still better than most of the team but he’s held to a high bar these days.

 

He’s at his best for us when he keeps things simple and uses his skill to break the line and set up a counter. You don’t notice the bad things in his game when Bruno is around because he seems to be all over the pitch bailing everyone out.

[KaKa]

Tried to do too much yesterday because Willock, who was supposed to be our most creative and attack minded midfielder yesterday, wasn't doing anything of the sort. Longstaff was guilty of forcing passes yesterday as well because of it.

 

As soon as Anderson came on for Willock we started applying a ton of pressure on Wolves at the end because he started making things happen, like Willock should have been doing. Anderson plays in Murphy behind who caused Wolves to clear in a panic that led to ASM's goal. Anderson then hit the bar with his header. Finally he runs at Wolves plays a one two with Joelinton that would have put him in, but led to the free kick that gave us a chance to win the game.

 

All I remember from Willock going forward was that glaring chance he missed.

[tomlynnherrington]

8 hours ago, KaKa said:

Tried to do too much yesterday because Willock, who was supposed to be our most creative and attack minded midfielder yesterday, wasn't doing anything of the sort. Longstaff was guilty of forcing passes yesterday as well because of it.

 

As soon as Anderson came on for Willock we started applying a ton of pressure on Wolves at the end because he started making things happen, like Willock should have been doing. Anderson plays in Murphy behind who caused Wolves to clear in a panic that led to ASM's goal. Anderson then hit the bar with his header. Finally he runs at Wolves plays a one two with Joelinton that would have put him in, but led to the free kick that gave us a chance to win the game.

 

All I remember from Willock going forward was that glaring chance he missed.

Don’t you be too critical of Willock mind.A few actually think he’s a good player 😏

[Kanji]

9 hours ago, KaKa said:

Tried to do too much yesterday because Willock, who was supposed to be our most creative and attack minded midfielder yesterday, wasn't doing anything of the sort. Longstaff was guilty of forcing passes yesterday as well because of it.

 

As soon as Anderson came on for Willock we started applying a ton of pressure on Wolves at the end because he started making things happen, like Willock should have been doing. Anderson plays in Murphy behind who caused Wolves to clear in a panic that led to ASM's goal. Anderson then hit the bar with his header. Finally he runs at Wolves plays a one two with Joelinton that would have put him in, but led to the free kick that gave us a chance to win the game.

 

All I remember from Willock going forward was that glaring chance he missed.

 

Wasn't that Trippier's ball to Murphy?

[Pata]

22 minutes ago, Kanji said:

 

Wasn't that Trippier's ball to Murphy?

 

Anderson.

[Happinesstan]

1 hour ago, Kanji said:

 

Wasn't that Trippier's ball to Murphy?

I think it was Trippier who set Maxi away, moments later.

[SUPERTOON]

 

[Dr Jinx]

That twitchy drunk can fuck right off.

[54]

"Great Strike" clearly not watched much of him, it's his Kryptonite

[Geordie Ahmed]

22 hours ago, Happinesstan said:

I think it was Trippier who set Maxi away, moments later.

That was Schar, great pass with his left foot, Maxi struck the ball well but it was straight at the keeper