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Sonny Walters
Is that really fair though? he might have neem better had erisken been there doing the part of recycler in the final third
I mean Lamela didnt play well either, and townsend almost literally just stood out there.... but i have to say that i kind of give everyone a pass cause the oracle qualities of eriksen wasnt there.
if i had to chose a guy to drop at half time it would have been one of townsend or lamela
I have to agree. With the benefit of hindsight I would have hooked Townsend at half time, though you could have argued that any one of the front four could have been subbed based on their first half performance. Dembele was sacrificed but I don't think that Eriksen's introduction helped one bit. I would have kept Dembele central, Lamela right and brought Eriksen into the left slot. It's a lineup that has served us well and I would have gone back to that.
That was great point considering how disjointed we were. Credit to West Ham, I think Fat Sam got his tactics spot on. High pressure on our guys forcing the mistakes, and long balls into the channels and over the top. We were back peddling for half the game and got sucked into hitting it long ourselves way too frequently. We weren't ready for it which is all the more surprising.