villalad21

Not sure who overrates Welbeck, unless you like strikers who cant score. Henderson has been quality this season Seriously, this. Henderson has been absolutely superb for Liverpool this season and Welbeck is underrated if anything (I don't think he's that great at all, mind). He's superb on what basis? By just doing unrisky passes and let Gerrard, Sturridge,Suarez and Sterling do all the job. Seriously, had he played on a mid-table side he would be average at best.

I think it depends on how well he performs in the World Cup

If Benteke goes we could go for Weimann as a center forward, with Gabby, Albrighton/NZogbia on he flanks, and use the money from Benteke to strengthen the midfield.

Not if we beat them with less possession. There'll be an absolute uproar on here. Possession have been an importent aspect of the modern game, whether people like it or not. Goals and points are the only thing that have ever mattered. Whether people like it or not.? You don't have to point out the obvious, it's really not necesarry. You'll never break into that "top 8 league" with our current possession rate. Thats no chance. We have to improve our passing, unless people would be happy for us surfing at the 10th-13th spots for the coming years. I assume people have higher expectations. We are great on the counter, and thats a great asset to have in our game, but you have to couple it together with a more passing oriented style, where we are able to break down defences in open play. Thats not possible at the current time, but hopefully Lambert can sign some creative players in the summer, lets hope so.

Welbeck and Henderson are probably the most overrated players in Premier League

Being not ready and being not good enough are 2 completely different things. Really? He's mainly a center forward isn't he? Yea he can also play behind the striker, but we don't play a formation which use that position. Also, i think Kozak, Benteke, Gabby or even Weimann are miles ahead of him in that role.

Delph is shit, use Sylla instead.

Please God no!

-----------Guzan---------- Bacuna-Baker-Vlaar-Bertrand ---------------Westwood---------- -----------KEA--------Delph-------- Albrighton-------------------Gabby ---------------Benteke-----------------

Not if we beat them with less possession. There'll be an absolute uproar on here. Possession have been an importent aspect of the modern game, whether people like it or not.

Helenius isn't good enough. I trust Lambert's judgement.

The Man Utd game is a must win game

Still though, do you enjoy seeing us having 22 % of the ball at home?

Jack Wilshere is crap.

Is Lambert setting us up in the way we can get the most out of our current squad? Probably, as we don't have any creative midfielders. That was never my point though. In the next coming years i think we need to improve our passing abilities, thats without a doubt. To only play at the counter is very predictable. We need to evolve more strings at our play imo, you might disagree, but thats football.

And thats not what me and others mean either. It's not the case of wanting to play like Swansea, but to improve our possession stats

You make is sound like you either have to play like West Ham or Barca, like there is nothing in between

This quote suggests otherwise. Usually being 'annoyed' and 'happy' are exclusive. Yes, our playing style annoyed me, not the result. Maybe, just maybe, those playing styles were required to beat those teams. If you'd tried to use the same argument to highlight where we've struggled to win then you may have a point. You can't really compare the Chelsea win to the Everton loss. Against Everton we had Holt and Benteke up front. The rest were back. We just hoofed, thats what i don't like to see

And some don't realise that we wont ever get into top 8 with our current possession rate.

This quote suggests otherwise. Usually being 'annoyed' and 'happy' are exclusive. Yes, our playing style annoyed me, not the result.

This is ridicilous. I'm not saying I'm unhappy with our victories. All I say is that we still have alot of room for improvements in our general play. Like others already have stated, if we want to take the next step in the league we need to have the ability to control games against the smaller sides. You can laugh at possession stats all you want, but take a look at the top 8 sides in the league, do you find any of them having a possession rate of under 50 %?

Really? Actual stats: Possession: Soton 78 % Villa 22 % - Shocking Shots off target: Soton 21 Villa 6 - Again shocking Shots on target: Soton 9 Villa 3 How is this not lucky? Tell me? Stats don't lie. That being said i'm really happy with the recent performances. The lads have been exellent! But that doesn't mean we can't still be critical, games like the saints victory (even tho we won) was a shocking performance.

Didn't City hit the bar 2 times or something too?

What annoys me this season is games like Everton away and also that lucky City win a home. Your never going to get anything against Everton with just sitting back and let them play on their strengths, poor tactically by Lambert imo. The City and the Southampton game away were lucky as s*** Also. Our possession stats needs to improve next season.