IrishVilla10

2 hours ago, dubbs said:

Is it wrong to worry that the likes of City will come sniffing around at the end of the season? This guy just have serious aspirations so if we're not top 6 / 4 at the end of the season will he want to move on?

That’s always the worry unfortunately, but we double our money at least 

7 minutes ago, nick76 said:

And yet if in a hypothetical, in the next league game we were only allowed to play Watkins or Diaby the majority of fans would choose Diaby I’m guessing because the performances and impact has been very different this season.  

Purely relying on stats starts the conversation of the El Ghazi effect where stats give a difference impression on the player’s ability to reality

I’m a big fan of stats, probably over reliant on them especially when looking at players I barely get the chance to watch. Ollie hasn’t been playing well imo, and I don’t know if it’s the evolution of our play style or who we’ve played against so far but I’m not even seeing the basics from Ollie which carried him through the dry spells previously. The first half chance at the weekend when he’s one on one with Johnston needs to be going in the net.

47 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

He was unlucky again yesterday. Should have scored at least one with those two chances in first half , the second chance being where if he’d made any attempt to throw himself at the ball it would have went in . He didn’t play bad, I mean he hit the woodwork from a good effort and won us the penalty , but he’s having one of those dry spells again and his missed chances will hurt us. 

That first half chance where he’s one on one is the difference maker really, he has to be finishing those 

2 hours ago, It's Your Round said:

Yes this. 

It’s easy to forget our back line has been disrupted so much. I’m sure he will get up to speed.

I’m sure I heard on sky gvardiol, city’s 100 million pound centre back just got his second league start today. Pau deserves time 

Need benched for a few games imo 

2 minutes ago, MotoMkali said:

Next game is vs Warsaw I assumed he'd be starting anyway. 

And the prem games after for me 

Big fan of him and konsa in a back 4, give them a run of games with that set up 

He’s just benched Ollie next game imo, and it’ll be great for both of them 

Cash cutting back and forth every time he’s on the ball is brutal 

Zaniolo has to play Diaby there 

5 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

I like JJ more than Grealish.

He may not look as graceful or elegant but he still glides past people. Most importantly, he can really finish. Jack always seemed confused when it was time to pull the trigger. JJ is desperate to bury it. 

Jack was special in the last season for us, two very different players. JJ is more deadly in the box, but jack was creating everything. One of the best in the world in multiple metrics that season 

5 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Half these people have no clue what they are talking about, or how to even evaluate a set piece coach.

Do you know how to evaluate a set piece coach? I definitely don’t. But I know we conceded a lot from them last season and on the eye test this season we look poor again. And I wonder why that is, not a McPhee witch-hunt or scapegoating session, just a concern related to our team. 

2 hours ago, Rightdm00 said:

Lack of Tyrone Mings. Ezri and Pau just aren't the aerial duel winning type. 

We were 3rd last season for most conceded from set pieces so I don’t know if that’s valid 

5 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

 

" As bad as some here " ?

Half these people have no clue what they are talking about, or how to even evaluate a set piece coach.

It's just another one of those bizarre scapegoat type threads which only ever gets bumped after a loss.

I've never seen it bumped when a set piece routine has come off brilliantly etc.

It’s a genuine concern, two teams conceded less than us from set pieces last season and were the joint worst already this season with three. The term scapegoat gets thrown around too often on here 

Is he still involved? If so he must be partly responsible for my stomach nearly falling out my arse every time we concede a set piece near our goal

30 minutes ago, Oaks said:

I will say it quietly, but we didn't have the same issues when Dendonker played at home vs the 2 uniteds. 

United don’t play like Liverpool  and Newcastle 

It was 4 vs 2 at times for Doug and kamara, need a better set up against better teams. 

5 minutes ago, tinker said:

Only one of these pictures led to a goal, they were caught offside multiple times, if you sit deeper then the opposition will just push further up and threaten our goal with crosses, which led to 2 goals. This is the Martin O' Neil way, sit deep, defend then hit them on the break, it doesn't wash in today's game. 

Emery has a system that involves a high line, its been more successful than not, yet people still question his system, thats working when you look at the facts.

We have an all new center of defence who have a handful of games between them and have been brought into play the highline system. You don't throw it all away and start again, you let the new players learn the system and then judge it from there. 

I suppose its the nature of the interweb for everyman and his dog to see the obvious errors in something and then point it out,........1 goal led from a ball over the top and it was an own goal in the end, lucky for them. 

We have the players and quality to beat the majority of the teams in the league that’s why. So Eddie Howe now klopp have exposed an issue we have in our set up. Let’s just give the best teams in the league the freedom of their own half and hope we catch them off side. Lucky for them or lucky from us, would that have been your mentality if it was 5/6-0 yesterday?  So we’re not allowed to point out obvious errors in our set up now, because Emery? 
I’ve never mentioned throwing the high line away, when it works it works well. Going to anfield or st James park and playing passively hoping we’re going to score a few well worked goals because we have players with quality on the ball I have a problem with. There’s a pressing intensity missing which the best teams have. 

1st pic- Liverpools centre backs pass it around, we pull back into the narrow shape, give Trent ages on the ball and he plays it over the top and salahs through on goal. Why are we doing it and why haven’t we learnt from the Newcastle game. 
2nd pic- Trent and macallister (who’s in between 3 of our players) pass the ball back and forth 4 times to each other , Salah makes a run trent plays it over and it’s the cash OG.

Again I’m calling Emery naive if he thinks we’re going to turn up to anfield, give them all the time in the world and allow one of the best passers in the world the time and space we gave trent yesterday. 
 

3rd and 4th pic- the play starts back at Allison, once they play the ball to their central defender we start running backwards again, one pass and we’re open on the counter. It’s insane to watch 

3 minutes ago, DJBOB said:

It really is hard to tell what could’ve been if Newcastle and Liverpool didn’t score in the 6th and 2nd minute respectively. It’s such a different game state when that happens. 
 
To be fair, we have done this to several teams. First goal usually wins. 

It’s not really, allow these teams all the time in the world to ping balls over you and you’re going to get caught soon enough, against quality teams multiple times. 

 Great take, account worth following too. 

Considering he’s just left his home country for the first time, been in England for about two months, performed well in league games already as well as coasting the qualifiers, that performance today isn’t going to worsen my opinion of him.