Baleforce
Ron Henry
I appreciate he's versatile, but he's a forward thinking player, to sort our MF we need a destroyer
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I appreciate he's versatile, but he's a forward thinking player, to sort our MF we need a destroyer
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
True but it’s about far more than one player. We’ve been dingdonged by Southampton and Wolves. Well and truly. Skipp isn’t the difference between that and where we should be.
monkeybarry
Ian Walker
The positives:
Hugo (short term)
Reggie
Romero.
Skipp.
Bentancur.
Sarr. (Hopefully)
Son.
Kane.
It's a good 8 to build upon.
Replacing 3 or 4 of the others (all squad level) with starters would make a difference.
The fight for 4th is going to be a tough one for everyone - no-one in that race looks good enough, but all look equally average.
Hugo (short term)
Reggie
Romero.
Skipp.
Bentancur.
Sarr. (Hopefully)
Son.
Kane.
It's a good 8 to build upon.
Replacing 3 or 4 of the others (all squad level) with starters would make a difference.
The fight for 4th is going to be a tough one for everyone - no-one in that race looks good enough, but all look equally average.
afsoc4life
Vedran Corluka
I just hope Levy realises that he has backed the players on 3 different occasions now and he needs to consider going the other way. Conte isn't perfect and I think he is too tactically stubborn not to mention crap in Europe. However Levy hired him and has to back him. Backing Conte comes with costs and unless Daniel does so, I do not see any way out of this. Conte needs different players to do what he wants to do.
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
I'm watching these games wondering what our set up and plan is.
And that goes for the last four managers.
I don't believe the players are following instructions.
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
Just quoting Conte, he can play RWB and as a No 10. When people are saying play him CM in a 3 they quite clearly don’t think he’ll be playing in the same parts of the pitch as a Winks or Skipp.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Yep
I know I’ve said it loads he played 3-4-3 here constantly when he changed at Chelsea
in Italy it was 3-5-2
we’re not seeing the best of son or Kane playing this way
monkeybarry
Ian Walker
His personality on the pitch can be.
We don't have an leaders.
spurspinter1
Paul Stalteri
Ah I was kind of getting at the randomness of where people see him playing to be honest but wasn’t clear on my part. He may actually be that versatile, so I don’t want to join the camp of writing him off or anything..
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
There 3 would have been in the same positions and roles as ours
There full backs were wide an foward well when they attacked
The issue was we had 2 vs 3 all game and it showed
Baleforce
Ron Henry
but that's the part of the pitch we are being overrun in, where we need the third body
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
You need more than leaders today. They were finding space and passes when they needed to take pressure off. Southampton had the freedom of midfield on Wednesday. Skipp should be a starter but he doesn’t change that.
monkeybarry
Ian Walker
Sometimes it helps people switch on a bit more and affects the opposition more.
No saying we weren't Utter crap.
I think if you asked half the squad "who wants to qualify for the CL", they would ask which club has bid for them.
paxtonwolf
John White
I am pretty sure it wont happen. But right now, on the showing of the last 2 games, I cant see where the next win comes from this season
This is my issue that I’ve raised a few times. We’re lining up 343 which relies on the wide players being good in attack and defence. Ours are pretty limited at both.
This system also means we will always be one short in CM which allows teams to walk on to our defence, and even with 3 there we seem incapable of shutting teams out.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
City aside, we don’t play anyone decent between now and the end of the season.
But.
We are brick.
The 9 points Nuno started with could end up keeping us up.
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
He’ll be closing the passing lanes centrally, not necessarily flying around like Kante, whereas right now it’s wide open centrally as we have 2 wide forwards and just Kane in the middle. Gives teams more space out wide to pass to, but generally that’s the lesser of the evils.
Skipp and Dier both make a big difference on the leadership and discipline front and help with the shape.
Romero wants to go and close down all the time and is too aggressive for the middle of the three.
Dier will sit, organise and let Romero do that side of the game.
Skipp is much better at reading the game than PEH or Winks. He sees those spaces and is better at cutting of passing channels etc.
They're not glamorous but make a big difference to the team.
yiddo37
Niko Kranjcar
No but if you stick him in a midfield 3 with Bentancur and Winks/Hojbjerg (hard to type those 2) or if Conte plays a 2 with him and Bentancur, Skipp's work rate, desire and awareness make us much harder to penetrate (oo-er) and in turn much more of an attacking threat.