MotoMkali

One moment in the second half there was a similar moment like wolves 2nd goal with maximin. Luiz clearly learned from that incident as he bodied him out of play.

As countless athletes have said you have to tune out the crowd otherwise it distracts you. He needs the call from his teammates and not the fans.

Adama traore looked faster to me but I was watching on TV compared to live so it may affect how I view it.

Hourihane should have done better with the pass. It was over hit but wasn't that badly. That was his only real error and again everyone makes errors Luiz lost the ball twice in dangerous positions, konsa's slice mings large touches etc. Should be piling on wes for a mistake which resulted in nothing and was 6 of one half a dozen of the other.

I did tell you why I though the post was stupid. I'm sorry if you were offended by it but to me it read as you were once again scapegoating el ghazi after a good game

It wasn't a misplaced pass hourihane miscontrolled (?) it. The pass was a bit over hit but he found his man. We need a new striker to offer something different but not to replace wesley. He has been continually getting better with this being his best game since Norwich. He missed a bit of a sitter but it was good keeping and 9/10 that exact shot goes in. The criticism on here is never justified it is just he Is shit. Never he made a bad mistake this is what happened and what he should have done. So the rest of the fans who have watched the game and seen all the good things he did get really annoyed because you are hounding him without justification. He was good today and we shouldn't be expecting wesley to score 20 goals the only players who do that are Kane, aguero, Salah, mane, vardy and auba. Callum Wilson scored 14 goals last year and was the best scorer outside the top 6 so don't have a go at wesley when he is currently on track for 12 goals.

I'd say 6 games Everton, Brighton, Norwich, arsenal, Newcastle and maybe Liverpool as his energy was good but didn't have much to work with.

Let's see whether our midfielders and wingers give him the support he needs to do that effectively. Without off the ball movement playing as a false 9 is pointless and will often be less effective than any other type of striker.

I was saying your criticism of him didn't make any sense.

I'm a bit worried a big club will swoop in and buy him in the summer as he will probably finish with 8+ goals and assists and is still young. He contributes so much to our goals that it is unbelievable that some people say he doesn't offer enough going forward.

OK your post is stupid. Yes he could be a striker and would probably be quite good at it (has 2 goals and 3 assist in 7 games). However el ghazi has made great strides defensively lately against Newcastle maximin had 2 players on him at all times except for when Newcastle were countering. On top of that he got a goal and has got 3 goals and 3 assists in 12 games. On top if that mcginn and grealish could have easily played him in 3 or 4 times but waited too long and the chance passed. The reason we should have had 5 or 6 goals is because el ghazi should have had 4 if mcginn and grealish played him in.

So who reckons getting targett for 15million was daylight robbery. Seriously twice the player Bertrand is and was for us how soton fans reckoned he was better than targett I will never know. Having him and guilbert makes such a difference and his crossing is unbelievable.

Left everything out in the pitch with some extra on maximin as well

Yeah but we don't need him to dominate he needs to hold the ball up (when played to his feet) and bring others in which he did excellently yesterday. He also contributes to most of our goals and whilst he did miss a bit of a sitter the chance wasn't as easy as it looked and it was great keeping from their goalie.

He could certainly pick an attacking midfielder shame he just didn't know how to use them. Like the longstaffs why the **** aren't they playing one of them is worth 50 million and he sits on the bench?

Players generally stop adding new skills to their game at about 24 and then start adding new ones back once they hit 28 after they leave their athletic prime. Wesley has probably 4 or 5 more years where he can easily add or refine his skills because he hasn't had as long to refine them.

He spent 2.5 mil on both Connor and mcginn. Lansulbury cost 6 though.

His goals have all been natural finishes I just think he is still far behind others on his development curve. Give him 2 or 3 years and I think he will dominate the prem as he will be too big to handle and will have his finishing, passing and dribbling down pat. Right now he is basically a 16 year old as he is 8 years behind Davis who has been playing in a competitive setting since he was 8. They both could be very good it is just wesley is a diamond in the rough and anything he does in the prem shows his natural ability.

Remember wesley had a booking which will lower his rating by a few points o in reality he probably played a 7.3 or 4 games.

Is Tammy a good finisher because he has missed 9 big chances and Wesley has missed 4. What about vardy and his 9 or aguero and his 7 or even auba with 5 and mane with 8. Kane is the best finisher in England and has missed 1 big chance everyone else above wesley has missed more than him except for ings. Jiminez apparently missed only 2 but since he fluffed 4 easy chances against us I think that should be a bit higher. Players miss big chances. Messi misses penalties Ronaldo is shit at free kicks. You can't be perfect and 95% of strikers will miss sitters aguero missed 2 against Liverpool but is he shit?

Could you write an analysis on wesley to help shut everyone up about how shit he has been. Or maybe it might prove them right but seriously people keep saying he is a donkey and is basically Hogan and that really annoys me.

Regarding the headers our crosses are generally very poor they are floaty and very high which either make it impossible to head or make it so if you do win it you can't get power on it. Our low balls have been very good though and have resulted in us scoring quite a few goal. And whilst wesley needs to run the front post more often the rest of our attackers need to gamble more we are a reactive side waiting for the ball to be played before we make our runs there were one or 2 crying out for a front post run but wesley can't be doing that every single time or it gets easy to read so someone else needs to do it. I think both him and el ghazi were brilliant yesterday and I am getting really annoyed at the criticism levied at them. People will say oh what a low bar he has set but you can impact the game without scoring or getting an assist and our passing was so much better today because he was deeper and was an option for our midfield.

The thing is that generally mcginn would occupy. That space today he sat deeper which led to us playing better so el ghazi occupied it and if mcginn and grealish played him in earlier he could have had 4 or 5 one on one's. The Newcastle defenders couldn't handle him for most of the game. There were 2 parts where he flopped a bit but I think both of them were fouls as it looked like their centre half had his arm in his lock and it wasn't given. The problem is people are expecting him to be Benteke and the things is no one scores more than 15 goals if you are outside the top 6 unless you are Benteke, lukaku, or vardy. Wesley isn't going to score 20 goals he will probably finish with around 12 with 4 or 5 assists. That is enough mcginn will probably get 7 or 8 grealish the same conor will get 9 or 10. We score lots of goals and whilst wesley didn't contribute to our set piece goals today he was very good and aggressive and was a handful. He did miss a sitter but I think he made the right choice with his shot. Most of the time the keeper goes back post there and that is an easy finish. The keeper didn't go and he got an easy save that was great anticipation by the keeper but on a different day would have been a goal. I'm not really sure what the villa fans wanted him to do it there. Try and roof it and look like torres or hit it across goals and if it goes wide or hits the post look like a muppet he made the right call but so did the keeper.

The point is the game has already slipped through our fingers at 70 minutes. I'd say this season we have lost 5-6 points due to Smith waiting too long to make a change. I was honestly terrified in the playoffs last year that we would lose because Smith waited 5 minutes too long. Against City they had scored twice before we made a change at minimum we should have made a sub straight away after they scored I was saying for a sub 5 minutes earlier. You can easily tell when we need to make a sub. Is mcginn sprinting but looking like he is moving through treacle take him off. It is as simple as that. Dean needs to sub mcginn off he is the player who gets the most tried as he runs himself into the ground. Also when we start to lose control of the game against arsenal we needed to make a sub after pepe scored and whilst we scored a minute later it was clear for all that arsenal were going to keep the pressure on us and we would collapse we needed to bring on Luiz and probably Davis so we had a proper target man.

It is different to them. When he has the ball it seems like time stands still and he can just stroll past opponents. Other players work really hard to beat their man but Jack does it effortlessly. In the last 10-15 years the only players who have had that same ability are Messi and iniesta. You passed the ball to them and their defender shits themselves. They didn't beat them with pace or much effort with iniesta it was the shoulder drop and with Messi it was him flicking the ball across to his other feet and defenders couldn't deal with it. Grealish is the same except it seems like he doesn't even use a move to glide past defenders which is what is so unique about him.