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Moussa Sissoko

glasgowspur said:
I don't have a problem with eriksen, I know what he brings to us but I'm also not blind to his faults. He has them, they all do. We don't employ eriksen for tackling and I've defended him on here before for not doing it, or not doing it very well. He is entitled to a bad game the same as everyone, and i will defend him when he does.

What I do have an issue with is just about every player got p elters for yesterday except him, its like he's immune to criticism. Even you've done it to an extent, he covered a lot of ground, big deal, ground covered proves nothing. He was at very best peripheral yesterday, but problem yesterday wasn't just because of eriksen, several looked knackered and arsenal ran us into the ground.
Ultimately, it was a bad day with several reasons for it and it was not down to any one player. We win as a team and we should lose as a team and we should be even handed in our criticism. Not that anything said on here really matters a toss, who listens to us, no one I hope:D
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Agree, on its own covering ground can mean very little, you do also need to be effective. But I profoundly disagree with the suggestion that Eriksen hides. Not going to spend hours arguing over it though, we see things differently, let's leave it at that.

BTW I have not criticised any of our players for yesterday's poor showing because with many mistakes from practically every player my conclusion was they were spent both mentally and physically. The wins over Chelsea and Milan seemed to have taken their toll. Son was about the only one with any fizz but he has played less than most this week. Whereas Arsenal were fresh because only one of their starting XI played midweek. That kind of preparation often proves critical when teams are otherwise closely matched and so it proved.
 
Spur of the moment said:
Agree, on its own covering ground can mean very little, you do also need to be effective. But I profoundly disagree with the suggestion that Eriksen hides. Not going to spend hours arguing over it though, we see things differently, let's leave it at that.

BTW I have not criticised any of our players for yesterday's poor showing because with many mistakes from practically every player my conclusion was they were spent both mentally and physically. The wins over Chelsea and Milan seemed to have taken their toll. Son was about the only one with any fizz but he has played less than most this week. Whereas Arsenal were fresh because only one of their starting XI played midweek. That kind of preparation often proves critical when teams are otherwise closely matched and so it proved.
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I'm not criticising eriksen, I'm a great believer in horses for courses and tbh this isn't his type of game, all that hourly burly.
I'm trying to defend the rest of the team by saying/showing it wasn't just the ' usual suspects' that were poor, They all were, even one of our best.
 
glasgowspur said:
I don't have a problem with eriksen, I know what he brings to us but I'm also not blind to his faults. He has them, they all do. We don't employ eriksen for tackling and I've defended him on here before for not doing it, or not doing it very well. He is entitled to a bad game the same as everyone, and i will defend him when he does.

What I do have an issue with is just about every player got p elters for yesterday except him, its like he's immune to criticism. Even you've done it to an extent, he covered a lot of ground, big deal, ground covered proves nothing. He was at very best peripheral yesterday, but problem yesterday wasn't just because of eriksen, several looked knackered and arsenal ran us into the ground.
Ultimately, it was a bad day with several reasons for it and it was not down to any one player. We win as a team and we should lose as a team and we should be even handed in our criticism. Not that anything said on here really matters a toss, who listens to us, no one I hope:D
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Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm sure a few people read your posts.
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imcallingbullsh*t said:
2 costly individual mistakes, the foyth one particularly threw us

Arsenal bought in extra midfielders and over-ran us
In response Poch didnt want to take off front 4 who looked big threat so took Dier out of midfield to a back 3 hoping pushing WBs up pushed us up pitch
That gave them complete control of midfield and front 4 didnt see ball again, including eriksen who ended up in a 2 with sissoko vs 3-4 arsenal players

Mistake was to not sacrifice Son for Winks and go 4-3-3 and bolster the midfield, it was a judgement call which was probably wrong, and was a misread of the game.

That said if either Dembele or Wanyama had been available i dont think poch would have made same decision
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A fantastic, and very accurate IMO view, of the scenario. I also think Lamela would've seen a change far sooner. He was sorely sorely missed.
 
several great tackles and vital interceptions in defence. his all round game is improving, i think he will replace wanyama as a hard man in the centre.
 
metalgear said:
several great tackles and vital interceptions in defence. his all round game is improving, i think he will replace wanyama as a hard man in the centre.
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I really hope he becomes that player, but I don't think he will as he tends to stand off in 50-50 situations, I just don't think he has that hard man psycho bit in him
 
NoLimits01 said:
I really hope he becomes that player, but I don't think he will as he tends to stand off in 50-50 situations, I just don't think he has that hard man psycho bit in him
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Not to forget (and I can't believe I'm saying this about a human being) peak Wanyama is a fair bit better on the ball.
 
metalgear said:
several great tackles and vital interceptions in defence. his all round game is improving, i think he will replace wanyama as a hard man in the centre.
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More a replacement for Dembele in my eyes. He offers the strong runs from central midfield which in the past when Dembele has been out we have missed. Sissoko now offers this again. I have says credit to the player and Poch for reinventing him as a central player.
 
scaramanga said:
Not to forget (and I can't believe I'm saying this about a human being) peak Wanyama is a fair bit better on the ball.
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To be fair my dogs better on the ball than Sissoko it's just that I've just given up saying anything negative on here about him and do my best to pick something positive from each performance, for example in his last game did you notice he only kicked the ball out twice while trying to control it, he is definitely improving :)
 
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