Three games, three bad performances so far. Barnsley game is more of a pre season.
A lot people keep talking about Alonso starting. Starting Alonso is not a problem, yes he was very bad. The problem with Lamp is that he pick player based on ohh he had good game last time, let's play him next game.
Against WBA he started Silva and Alonso on the same side, too slow of a pairing. I like when I saw Werner playing wide, ahh at least he will stay wide a couple time. Nope he was narrow all the time. Hence Alonso need to play as winger pretty much all the time.
Now tons of people say emerson is better, nope emerson is awful. But if you want your lb to play wide and beating player, Alonso is useless, emerson make more sense.
2nd half, Azpi and especially CHO helped us big time. Good sub, but why in the hell CHO didn't start. CHO started on the right but James can handle right wing on his own. When CHO moved to the left suddenly our left side turn alive. All azpi need to do make was easy pass to cho, stay back or under or overlap, done.
When we brought Giroud on, I thought it was for Tammy or maybe Werner but it was for Silva. We changed to 3412, suddenly our offense turned into turd. Our two fb need to start deep to start the attack rather than staying high.