NikkiCFC 8,325 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 12 hours ago, OneMoSalah said: We are playing Fulham who have Lemina and Anguissa, not Xavi and Iniesta. Plus they are playing what looks like a 442 on paper so we aren’t outnumbered in there either. Havertz, Ziyech will be able to come inside/drop in to help us get the ball in those areas also so we will be fine. And Fulham finished the game with more possession. And more attempts on goal. This is what I meant when I saw lineup. If games like this don't make people appreciate Jorginho more, I don't know what will... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Werner's assist for the second goal was superb. Early on he managed to miss a couple ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,325 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Anyone noticed how our last 3 goals came after great long balls from defenders? Rudiger (Real) and yesterday Silva and Chilwell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 28 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said: Anyone noticed how our last 3 goals came after great long balls from defenders? Rudiger (Real) and yesterday Silva and Chilwell. Likely part of the plan to bypass the press and when we have pacey players upfront, it makes no sense to not try and play them in early. Playing slow, possession football is also shit anyway, especially when we need goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippy 342 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 21 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said: Anyone noticed how our last 3 goals came after great long balls from defenders? Rudiger (Real) and yesterday Silva and Chilwell. I wonder if the long balls is something TT has talked to our defenders about? One of the big criticisms of our play has been the excessive sideways passing between our defenders. Not only is it tedious to watch but its also not doing anything to help us create chances and score goals. Just gives the opposition plenty of time to get men back into defensive positions. Don't want us to become a longball team (sure we wont) but mixing up play is defo something we should do more of. NikkiCFC and Muzchap 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzchap 8,966 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Watched on the ipad as stuck with pretty limited Internet. Thought the team played well with the defenders bombing forward. Very disciplined performance- shame we didn't create a bit more, but professional performance and the train is rolling onwards. Beigl and Atomiswave 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 hace 11 horas, NikkiCFC dijo: And Fulham finished the game with more possession. And more attempts on goal. This is what I meant when I saw lineup. If games like this don't make people appreciate Jorginho more, I don't know what will... Maybe but when your playing every 3 days you have to rotate also and especially when you play a CL semi mid week and already have a CM out injured in Kovacic. Dont disagree re Jorginho but ultimately if Billy had played more games and had some actual consistent playing time and even more so if Mount did a bit more in the first half defensively in midfield, I think we would of been better off. Second half he wasnt that bad, he was tidier on the ball. We needed Kante in there though Mount was great going up the pitch but struggled also going back the way. Billy was for sure sloppy first half but got better second half as I said there. He was playing 2 v 1 a lot, Mount seemed to reign it in a bit second half but I felt he played more out on the left closer to Chilwell as opposed to in the middle of the park and that left spaces. Ultimately we still had control of the game I would say after their period in the first half. Possession stats are misleading - even then 52% v 48% hardly that bad not like Barca having 70% v us home and away so would say your greatly overreacting to this. Stats on attempts on goal can also be misleading. Would probably say half their attempts were from outside the box/long range efforts. They weren’t big or clear cut chances, yes they had the one Mendy had to readjust to save due to a deflection and a few others he made from long range efforts but wouldn’t have said they should have scored in that game. Or that they had created any real clear chances to do so. Plus we had 9 shots in all they had 10, but ultimately we had more shots on target, 5 v their 3, which is more important than overall attempts and leading on from there we scored 2 goals and they didn’t. Plus we scored an offside goal also and looked more purposeful in the final third IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomiswave 6,117 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 4 hours ago, Muzchap said: Watched on the ipad as stuck with pretty limited Internet. Thought the team played well with the defenders bombing forward. Very disciplined performance- shame we didn't create a bit more, but professional performance and the train is rolling onwards. Exactly what it was, professional......we did what we had to do to win but at the same time conserve energy for RM. I loved it, was proper. Muzchap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzchap 8,966 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 4 hours ago, Atomiswave said: Exactly what it was, professional......we did what we had to do to win but at the same time conserve energy for RM. I loved it, was proper. Yup need to make it count now 👍 Atomiswave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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