Erikse Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 10 minutes ago, black_n_white said: I’m confused to why people think Anderson could do a job in midfield, I’m not sure he’s proved himself in that position yet? Too much of a risk. Same with schar in midfield, complete non starter. Right now starting Joelinton in midfield is looking risky too if I'm honest. Hasn't been working out lately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 And here we are, shitting it because Murph and Longy are out. Who’d have thunk it? We’ve still got the players to do this! The crowd really need to make a difference. We know they can. Let’s hope they bring the noise to carry the lads over the line. United! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Jack27 said: sigh fucking incredible! who would have said 3 months ago that going into a must win game without murphy and sean meant we were missing 2 of most important form players. both would have started for me had they been fit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sushimonster85 Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 7 minutes ago, Erikse said: Right now starting Joelinton in midfield is looking risky too if I'm honest. Hasn't been working out lately. Joelinton doesn't work in the deeper '6' role where he started out V Leeds. Still fine in that LCM role I'd say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 10 minutes ago, Erikse said: Right now starting Joelinton in midfield is looking risky too if I'm honest. Hasn't been working out lately. Because he's been playing on the right ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 34 minutes ago, black_n_white said: I’m confused to why people think Anderson could do a job in midfield, I’m not sure he’s proved himself in that position yet? Too much of a risk. Same with schar in midfield, complete non starter. He hasn’t (Anderson). But i don’t like how the midfield has been operating and I’ve liked the Joe’s down the left. If we had another genuine CM option I would say them. Think Anderson started the Liverpool game in midfield iirc. Bad omen? Maybe. I’ve ran the Shelvey discussion into the ground. But I said it when we sold him. We needed his warm body and decent ability on a good day. Or someone else in that position. I think I said it could cost us Europe and I was wrong. It could end up costing us the CL or risked it. He did decent at DM last season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 Good thing about being in Europe is that we will get a proper squad. Even if it’s older players on 2 year contracts. We can’t go into another season with 4 CM options for 3/4 positions. Crazy decision. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDT Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 1 minute ago, The College Dropout said: Good thing about being in Europe is that we will get a proper squad. Even if it’s older players on 2 year contracts. We can’t go into another season with 4 CM options for 3/4 positions. Crazy decision. Did we not go into the season with 6 options? Willock, Bruno, Longstaff, Joelinton, Anderson (rightly or wrongly Howe viewed him as a CM) & Shelvey? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikse Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, The College Dropout said: Good thing about being in Europe is that we will get a proper squad. Even if it’s older players on 2 year contracts. We can’t go into another season with 4 CM options for 3/4 positions. Crazy decision. I wish we just bought a CM squad player in january. Didn't necessarily need to be an expensive starter. We were linked to McTominay and some people were upset about it. I think we could've found someone for around £20 mill which could've helped us a lot in the case of injuries. Edited May 17, 2023 by Erikse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 Eddie says calm the fuck down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 Lewis Miley step up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Erikse said: I wish we just bought a CM squad player in january. Didn't necessarily need to be an expensive starter. We were linked to McTominay and some people were upset about it. I think we could've found someone for around £20 mill which could've helped us a lot in the case of injuries. At that point, I think the club was expecting more Europa or Conference league next season at best. It was deemed not worth investing in January for that - which I kinda understand or at least has logic behind it. Finishing 6th (in the Europa) or 9th doesn't change much FFP-wise. And then we would go again in the summer for priority targets. Turns out we've had an amazing run to CL. If that was the expectation in January and it was felt we needed CM cover to secure it, I reckon they would've kept Shelvey or got in a body. 9 minutes ago, KDT said: Did we not go into the season with 6 options? Willock, Bruno, Longstaff, Joelinton, Anderson (rightly or wrongly Howe viewed him as a CM) & Shelvey? I count 5 with Shelvey. Anderson was never pushing to start and would be loaned in ideal circumstances. The aim on Jan 31st was still just to do better than last season. Which is why they didn't strengthen CM. Had they thought we would be here in May - we would've signed a purple. Edited May 17, 2023 by The College Dropout Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 (edited) Yup... horrible feeling this is going to be a tough slog without Longstaff again, a clearly struggling Bruno and Big Jow in a less familiar position. Isn't ideal. Edited May 17, 2023 by Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 On 16/05/2023 at 08:41, Wallsendmag said: I'm sure it'll already have been mentioned on this thread but we have a truly abysmal record in the PL v these. I remember beating them at home last season when we went 2-0 up early on but other than that I'm struggling. Feels like the curse of nicking the Championship trophy off them on the last day of the season (… partly thanks to Jack Grealish.). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 1 minute ago, Coffee_Johnny said: Feels like the curse of nicking the Championship trophy off them on the last day of the season (… partly thanks to Jack Grealish.). ironically, it could be villa again helping us out. so we could finally forgive them and have closure about the relegattion shannanigans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Dancer Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 I think we're going to do these you know. Think it will be more comfortable than we all think. Just think it'll be like the Spurs, Man Utd and the cup games against Leicester & Southampton. I understand Brighton pose a much greater threat than arguably all of them, but the feeling I have is very similar to all of them; we will win mainly due to the stakes and how the crowd will be. I understand the atmosphere tailed off in the Southampton game, but we started all of them games so fast feeding off of the energy the crowd provided. Not sure if it's the mackems losing that's giving me confidence but I just have a feeling we will win by at least a couple of goals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 3 minutes ago, Chicken Dancer said: I think we're going to do these you know. Think it will be more comfortable than we all think. Just think it'll be like the Spurs, Man Utd and the cup games against Leicester & Southampton. I understand Brighton pose a much greater threat than arguably all of them, but the feeling I have is very similar to all of them; we will win mainly due to the stakes and how the crowd will be. I understand the atmosphere tailed off in the Southampton game, but we started all of them games so fast feeding off of the energy the crowd provided. Not sure if it's the mackems losing that's giving me confidence but I just have a feeling we will win by at least a couple of goals. crowd to bring the noise! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1pe Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 Brighton have been amazing lately. So an unexpected, comfortable 3-0 home win is gonna happen to calm us all down a little. Big Joe masterclass Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 8 minutes ago, St1pe said: Brighton have been amazing lately. So an unexpected, comfortable 3-0 home win is gonna happen to calm us all down a little. Big Joe masterclass They haven’t like. They’ve been doing what they’ve done for some time. Play well. Sometimes results are great. Sometimes results are bad. Good but unpredictable team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackyboy Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 As Eddie says, Longstaff gives us balance in midfield. I don't think that it's his individual brilliance that we miss because he does spurn quiet a few decent chances. Schar played on midfield in an international and he was dreadful so I don't see that being tried. I believe that Bruno was exceptional until quite recently and it was a large part of our success but now he seems to be struggling and it's really hurting us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack j Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 Just looking and forest and Everton both had less than 25% possession when they twatted Brighton Could do with Rafa back for this one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 I’m certain we start with plan A. I just hope we quickly revert if it’s not working and avoid conceding early. Will post variants of this tweet nonstop til tomorrow btw. So get used to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 It didn’t work straight from the off against Arsenal away. We realised it and changed tact. But those were the Longstaff and 2 Joe days. I’m not sure we have the personnel to play that way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 41 minutes ago, The College Dropout said: I’m certain we start with plan A. I just hope we quickly revert if it’s not working and avoid conceding early. Will post variants of this tweet nonstop til tomorrow btw. So get used to it. fair enough Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 19 minutes ago, 80 said: fair enough It's just going around in my head. "Longstaff. Pressing. Press resistance. Space in behind Trippier. Space in behind period. Danny Welbeck might be stronger and faster than Schar and Botman. Ah I reckon Howe starts ASM or Joe LW. Maybe pressing can work with real intensity." Can't wait until the game is over. I was always looking past this fixture too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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