its verts and chiriches to me after yesterday's showing. dawson is just too error prone.
but we'd need capoue and ade in the team to defend from set pieces.
its verts and chiriches to me after yesterday's showing. dawson is just too error prone.
but we'd need capoue and ade in the team to defend from set pieces.
I could be wrong, but Dawson's that type of player, where we defend better with him in the team, despite him not being perfect. His experience and leadership helps galvanize the defense. Will be a tough one whoever gets the nod.
I could be wrong, but Dawson's that type of player, where we defend better with him in the team, despite him not being perfect. His experience and leadership helps galvanize the defense. Will be a tough one whoever gets the nod.
No way. Do you go to our games? Vertonghen rarely does any vocal leading, which is an essential part of a defender's game. At least one of our centre-backs needs to be giving out orders, Jan's not that man.Paves way for verts to assume captaincy too, and imagine him leading from the back, galvanizing the entire team!
Bloody Romanians coming into Britain and taking our awards...
No way. Do you go to our games? Vertonghen rarely does any vocal leading, which is an essential part of a defender's game. At least one of our centre-backs needs to be giving out orders, Jan's not that man.
Chiriches was great yesterday, his best performance yet for us. Cool in possession, strong in the tackle and wow he's quick for a defender ain't he?
Did get caught out of position a bit but his pace allowed him to make up for it mostly. And we know his achilles heel is his poor heading, so he'll probably struggle against the Stokes and West Hams of this world but thankfully I think most PL teams are moving away from the long ball style of play.
What I do know about verts is that in Ajax he captained them to win the league, and became one of the best players there at the same time!
i dont like this guy because of his decision making, but i cant help but notice the benefits of the stupid risks that he takes if they come off.
He must be a gambling man, clearly plays a numbers game
one thing i dont like about him, a simple ball over the top and he is out for the count , LOL..didnt mean it and no pun intended, what the **** is that about? doesnt he believe in partnerships...you're supposed to keep busting a gut to get back in line
Technically good player, bit of the crazy in him.
Re the long ball over the top, it's something we need to work on as a team, I personally have noticed that Pool/United/most teams this season have played a lot of "long balls" against us, obviously something they think they can exploit based on how we set up, Pool killed us with it, we coped with it against United other than the switch off after our 2nd.
If a ball is played over/past Chiriches then it's down to his partner to read the situation and prevent the danger, what was he actually supposed to do in that scenario yesterday?
the key is that its always played over chiriches, and he is always the guy that doesnt know whats happening behind him?
what should he have done?
been aware of what's happening with his partner i would assume.......keep an eye on the where the ball is going to as opposed to the ball itself...especially when its like 5 to 10 yards ahead of you
dont just jog back, slowly at that, after the ball has been played over your head leaving your guy to deal with it on his own...assume that he might hold him up a bit so that you can get back in time to support
thing is that i am not saying the goal was his fault, just that this over the top ball has been a real issue since verts hasnt been in the line up. And this slow job back thing is something i see a lot of in chiriches so far....
wellback targeting dawson due to pace and mobility was the right move , from the strikers perspective, but we should know this as this is football 101 ...you would expect that we would have have contingency plans to support dawson when those balls happened?
put it this way...why isnt an over the top ball killing EVERY single premier league team?
i'm also curious to know how many times we have manage to pull and offside trap with chiriches in the lineup.....one of the reasons that one CB gets dragged all over the country in the straight line to goal is lack of the communication in the defensive line....and probably trust. because i cant quantify that or easily see it it kind of makes it a moot point...but i suspect that might be something to do with this long ball over the top butchering our defensive line