Huge part of many of our recent goals. Dog **** take right here.
Wasn't great? Huge part of both goals. Multiple important clearances.
Being called annoying by you is a compliment. He was one of our better players but it was a bad performance as Bruno said.
Wasn't a great performance from the team. But Dendoncker is one of the few who deserves no real criticism today. And we still won.
Agreed.
That was my initial thought too. But I've noticed that in some areas of the pitch, notably out wide, there are situations where a midfielder hands over the marking responsibility to a defender. I guess only Bruno and the players know if this is meant to be the case in central areas as well. I also thought Kilman was playing unusually poorly today, then he makes a break into midfield and helps set up our 2nd...
Yes noticed when we play Mouts Neves and him, he effectively plays very high up as the 3rd ‘attacker’ pressing when the opposition back line have the ball
To be fair, Lookman did make a very intelligent run in between Kilman and Semedo. It could also be argued that Semedo should have alerted Kilman of the danger...
Be interested to know what the coaches on here think. For me you can't have a midfielder staying with a runner in behind when the back line is trying to hold a line or he just ruins the offside line. If anything Kilman needs to be more aware and do a bit better?
He wasn't great though. Holy **** some of these posts are annoying
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Did he?
strange the leicester paper gave him a 6 and said his set pieces were poor which they were
lol didn't readHe wasn't great though. Holy **** some of these posts are annoying
He has done better recently, and started well yesterday, but then just faded too, and in fact became a liability. Even his biggest fan Liam Keen remarked upon his poor game in his player ratings in the Express and Star: - "A very good first half-hour was followed by a few sloppy passes and Dendoncker was fortunate they were not punished". Gave him a 6 .
But yesterday, Moutinho wasn't at the races at all and was rightly subbed. He was not looking fit to me. Also felt Ruben struggled somewhat, maybe due to quality around him.
But how anyone could have watched yesterday and not seen that our midfield is so immobile is beyond me. Its not a case of hating a player (well not for me), its watching what I see week in week out. I know Ruben is the key, the quality, I know Mouts has quality too but is 35. Donk is a great lad too, a 'harrasser', but he needs upgrading even if that sounds harsh. How much better would we be with a mobile CM alongside Neves.
Tielemans is a classy player, but he’s not getting better really and wants out. Neves is getting better as the season goes on. Neves is a bargain to be had at 60m Tielemans will probably cost the same with his contract running down. Wonder if citeh will make a move for him??
At the bare minimum regardless of formation we play with two rigid holding midfielders, so you could get the most mobile midfielder in the world and Bruno would still want them to “sit”He wasn't great though. Holy **** some of these posts are annoying
He has done better recently, and started well yesterday, but then just faded too, and in fact became a liability. Even his biggest fan Liam Keen remarked upon his poor game in his player ratings in the Express and Star: - "A very good first half-hour was followed by a few sloppy passes and Dendoncker was fortunate they were not punished". Gave him a 6 .
But yesterday, Moutinho wasn't at the races at all and was rightly subbed. He was not looking fit to me. Also felt Ruben struggled somewhat, maybe due to quality around him.
But how anyone could have watched yesterday and not seen that our midfield is so immobile is beyond me. Its not a case of hating a player (well not for me), its watching what I see week in week out. I know Ruben is the key, the quality, I know Mouts has quality too but is 35. Donk is a great lad too, a 'harrasser', but he needs upgrading even if that sounds harsh. How much better would we be with a mobile CM alongside Neves.
Dunno how Neves is getting better and Tielemans isn't tbh, same age and Tielemans has already tied his best goalscoring season this year.
Two exceptional midfielders. If United were serious they’d go after 2 of Neves, Tielemans or Rice.
That depends whether he plays with 2 or 3 CMs though surely? I get it that he will want 2 to sit, but I don't know what he thinks. Does he want a 3-man midfield? If he plays 3, imagine a more effective Donk alongside Neves and another. Not an easy position to fill I accept.
Think Rice is quality but the English tax means you'd get more value with the other two imo.
