P.S. As an aside, i think that was a huge 45 mins in the career of Costa. he has looked SO weak and clueless in his brief appearances since he was dropped.........then he comes in and immediately loses the ball and they score a 4th........but after that he started to look a bit like the Costa we know and that goal could make a massive difference for him.
Roberts also looked really sharp and effective and that will also have helped him a lot. Could see him starting v Wolves in place of (possibly injured?) Klich. On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:34 AM Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > (settling down for the game and a mate says, “of course they’ve been > struggling to score recently…”) > > In his post-match chat MB conceded that he had set the team up wrong for > the game yesterday. And for once I think we’d be justified in saying that > if he had listened to the combined wisdom of this list then he would have > started with Ayling (RB) Cooper and Struijk (CBs) and Alioski (LB) - then > using real midfielders to plug the “Kalvin gap”…probably Shackleton, > although Huggins looks a bright one for the future…or we could have asked > Klich to drop deeper and had Roberts as some kind of roving #10 / centre > midfield. Shackleton looked lost yesterday. > > We lose a lot of forward momentum without Ayling going down the right - > plus he links well with Raphinha, who was probably our brightest player > yesterday. > > That said, all the plans in the world don’t matter at all if people don’t > tackle, track back etc…we basically gave them all 4 of those goals. And we > just never looked forward with the ball, at least until our first goal. > That said, Klich and Harrison should have done better with decent chances > in the first half, while Bamford had a decent header saved. > > And I’ve never seen a referee overrule himself. > > And I think that is why he didn’t give a penalty for the Bamford incident > in the second. > > Its not the loss but the nature of it (or at least the first 50 minutes). > > Wolves next. > > Win our game in hand and we will be back above Arsenal. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > Rest in Peace Guy, and wear your hat! _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ Rest in Peace Guy, and wear your hat!
