Slot full of praise.
Hopefully that’s the rift behind us.
A goal scoring fit Salah is exactly what we need.
Post Match UCL Olympic Marseille (A) 0-3 January 21st 20:00
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Hopefully that’s the rift behind us.
A goal scoring fit Salah is exactly what we need.
With another CL medal in his pocket
Personally, I had an initial doubt whether we get a result there! This is the best team performance in UCL without a doubt. However, if we had a better two other players than the useless twin, Wirtz & Salah, the team will go all the way. I thought Kerkez was excellent, he is getting to know the other players. A bad note: Slot has still chickened out to take Salah off, who was useless as ever! I hope we can play like this on the weekend. Good luck!
Kyle walker stole a career with pace, so fingers crossed frimmers can emulate
Frim's has got skills, vision, game intelligence to boot. He just needs better delivery, but is already effective enough.
I did not see the Burnley game, but this was a much-improved performance compared with much of what we have seen recently. They had chances, but I felt we generally controlled the game. We were less focused on simply maintaining possession and were more willing to take risks without the ball. A key part of attacking play is creating uncertainty. It does not matter how you do it, whether that is a long ball onto a target man’s 50-yard head or intricate tiki-taka football, the point is to create situations where the defence cannot predict where the ball will be in three seconds. It feels like we are starting create more of those situations a little better. Whether that comes from the bravery of the players or from tactical instruction does not really matter. The finishing needs to be sharpened up. We still need a (well-created) own-goal to get a comfortable margin. Gomez deserved his shout-out from Slot. No bad performances across the park, but Kerkez, Szobo, Frimpong, and Wirtz stood out for me.
One of the most encouraging things for me is the relationship on the pitch between Wirtz and Ekitik, which really does look to have the makings of something special. Kerkez's improvement shouldn't be a huge surprise. I've been more surprised at how average he's been, generally, to date. He's had a slow start, and his right foot will always limit him, but he's got everything in his locker to be a top-class LB for us for years. I love watching him play. I'm also leaning towards the idea that we should sign a right-back and play Frimpong forward more. He's looked solid defensively enough, but right now we need that raw pace higher up the pitch more often.
One of the most encouraging things for me is the relationship on the pitch between Wirtz and Ekitik, which really does look to have the makings of something special. Kerkez's improvement shouldn't be a huge surprise. I've been more surprised at how average he's been, generally, to date. He's had a slow start, and his right foot will always limit him, but he's got everything in his locker to be a top-class LB for us for years. I love watching him play. I'm also leaning towards the idea that we should sign a right-back and play Frimpong forward more. He's looked solid defensively enough, but right now we need that raw pace higher up the pitch more often.
Have we found the right formation now then?
We certainly looked good going forward. We broke far more quickly. Wirtz and tekkers are class. Now, we've got pace on the wings. You can see Salah and Isak both fitting into this too.
We really need to put much more pressure on the ball though, as a better team will rip through our passive defence.
We certainly looked good going forward. We broke far more quickly. Wirtz and tekkers are class. Now, we've got pace on the wings. You can see Salah and Isak both fitting into this too.
We really need to put much more pressure on the ball though, as a better team will rip through our passive defence.
Good thing this never happened, however since it was only 2yrds out and especially player in question, it would have been only with 0.2 goal.
Slot to be fair has been good to Salah and always says postive things about him personally. Even during AFCON, he was saying he wanted Mo back ASAP. Mo was wrong to say all that stuff, he would have been better saying we are all a bit shite. Also found that journo asking Slot about Xabi a bit wrong.
I didn't watch game too closely as it was my team "christmas party" although the place we were in had it on. I liked that Frim was able to hug the wing (and created that OG but actually taking on the fucking full back) and Salah tuck inside. This will help a lot against a low block and an extra goal thread in the box when we need it most.
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