MKSpur
Christian Ziege
Alli and Sanchez excellent. The former is benefiting from being higher up the pitch, I still believe the biggest challenge he will have in his career is complacency as the game comes so easily to him. Sanchez has been a big plus so far, seems to have benefited from only having to defend in a lower block.
Although he hasn’t made mistakes as such I am worried that gazzaniga isn’t dominant on crosses and made a couple of what i thought were routine saves look more difficult than they were. I think he will remain a good long term number 2 but not sure he will for enough to claim the number 1 spot.
centre mid remains a concern. Dier is not really screening the defence, mobility is an issue at the mo but also felt he was a little higher up the pitch than he needed to be, possibly due to it being more of a back 3 so there isn’t as easy to drop back closer to a back 2. Ndombele looked to have picked up a knock, still showed ability on the ball albeit with a couple of bad decisions trying to be cute when a clearance was required.
Aurier defo benefiting from being higher up the pitch, Jan did ok, better than Rose for the role and a superb tackle that if unsuccessful would have left a very different complexion on the match.
Toby, great passing - was he told to stop playing those balls or did he just not have Alli to aim for??
I was disappointed to see Kane dropping deep, turning up at last wing at one point. Put Son through with a great pass but as we are playing on the counter more he needs to stay up top as he won’t catch up with Son, Alli Moura etc if he’s starting from behind them.
Son was a threat on the break, effervescent is such a good word to describe his performances. The direct stuff didn’t quite come off but weighed on with a great pass for Sissoko and his touch for Alli’s first was also significant even if it wasn’t intended!
I thought Sissoko in an attacking role doesn’t work as he struggles with his decision making / execution in the final third but he took the goal really well and also pulled off a nice piece of skill to open up the shot for the Sanchez goal. The way the crowd celebrated his goal was fantastic, obviously the club hasn’t expected to need to put his name on the boards so didn’t spell check it!!
Moura made some nice contributions when he came on too.
Im interested to see how Mourinho resolves the cm issue with the players we have. It’s going to be difficult with Dier and Wanyama both struggling to prove they can reach their old levels and Ndombele not looking fit.
Although he hasn’t made mistakes as such I am worried that gazzaniga isn’t dominant on crosses and made a couple of what i thought were routine saves look more difficult than they were. I think he will remain a good long term number 2 but not sure he will for enough to claim the number 1 spot.
centre mid remains a concern. Dier is not really screening the defence, mobility is an issue at the mo but also felt he was a little higher up the pitch than he needed to be, possibly due to it being more of a back 3 so there isn’t as easy to drop back closer to a back 2. Ndombele looked to have picked up a knock, still showed ability on the ball albeit with a couple of bad decisions trying to be cute when a clearance was required.
Aurier defo benefiting from being higher up the pitch, Jan did ok, better than Rose for the role and a superb tackle that if unsuccessful would have left a very different complexion on the match.
Toby, great passing - was he told to stop playing those balls or did he just not have Alli to aim for??
I was disappointed to see Kane dropping deep, turning up at last wing at one point. Put Son through with a great pass but as we are playing on the counter more he needs to stay up top as he won’t catch up with Son, Alli Moura etc if he’s starting from behind them.
Son was a threat on the break, effervescent is such a good word to describe his performances. The direct stuff didn’t quite come off but weighed on with a great pass for Sissoko and his touch for Alli’s first was also significant even if it wasn’t intended!
I thought Sissoko in an attacking role doesn’t work as he struggles with his decision making / execution in the final third but he took the goal really well and also pulled off a nice piece of skill to open up the shot for the Sanchez goal. The way the crowd celebrated his goal was fantastic, obviously the club hasn’t expected to need to put his name on the boards so didn’t spell check it!!
Moura made some nice contributions when he came on too.
Im interested to see how Mourinho resolves the cm issue with the players we have. It’s going to be difficult with Dier and Wanyama both struggling to prove they can reach their old levels and Ndombele not looking fit.
Let’s hope Dier improves his distribution though....