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Bailey

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  1. You can see the look of defeat on his face. It wasn't even a penalty on Saturday but he had resigned himself to it. I remember the last days of Gary Neville being similar where he just couldn't stop gifting goals/penalties/fouls. It wouldn't hurt to give Mori a run.
  2. Southall and Baines for me. Arteta had his moments but if you were picking a team of the year he would have never have been in it whereas the other two would.
  3. Players will press if the manager tells them to, especially if the result of not pressing is sitting on the bench or in the stands. Gone are the days of players like Yakubu who only run when they get inside the 18 yard box. You basically just said it with Bolasie. A player who does press, who is aggressive, has all but stopped that side of his game. He is still direct on the ball, but his work rate has dropped. Thats what concerns me the most. He should have been the leading example for the other wingers. Both Gerry and Mirallas started pre-season working their nuts off but now they are sitting on the bench and Lennon, who is nothing like a Koeman player, starting ahead of them (albeit for just one game). He can play how he wants to here with the players we have. Much worse players can do better than ours have shown. Borough were streets ahead of us when playing Chelsea. A bad workman blames his tools etc. What we lack has nothing to do with the individual qualities of players, it has to do with hard work, discipline and attitude and that comes from the top down. The majority of players are putting in a shift but that effort is being misused. I wouldn't disagree with some players lacking discipline under Martinez but that isn't something that can be labelled to any one of the starting 11 against Swansea and that showed as in the second half we barely gave them a kick. We have started almost every game at a snails pace when we should be setting the tone in that time, we could and should have been behind in almost every game this season. West Ham could have been 2 or 3 up, Defoe had a great chance for Sunderland, Swansea had a couple of chances before they were given the penalty too. This comes from the manager/management.
  4. He is too much of a headless chicken in open play. He can man mark, he can tackle, work hard and get things done but he doesn't have the brain to do it here. Him and Gana would be a disaster. They would turn the ball over loads but also give it away as much and both get caught chasing the ball, well Gana doing his job and Besic following the ball. A handy back up but nothing more.
  5. The problem is we play Soton, United, Watford, Arsenal and Liverpool in our next 5 games. 3 of them are at home but Southampton are rock solid at the back without scoring too many and Watford are playing really well too. United are probably the easiest game as I don't see us getting close to Arsenal or Liverpool. I could see us picking between 3 and 7 points across those games leaving us well in the bottom half of the table. We were certainly flattered at the start of the year with the schedule we had. In general terms I am not really sure what Koeman is trying to achieve. I thought he wanted aggressive & hard working wingers/inside forwards but then he picks Lennon. I thought he wanted a tough combative central midfield and then he picks Cleverly. We have seen Mori playing left back, a mix and match at the back, and Enner facking Valencia. We will get better and I am still confident that he will be successful here but he is certainly testing my patience!
  6. It's no so much the age of our defence but their speed (which can go hand in hand). Coleman is the only one who can shift and whilst it's not a problem if we want to sit back and soak up pressure, when we want to attack, you need the back 4 to also press high and limit the space between the defence and midfield but at the moment they are sat too deep and there is space to play in for the opposition. 2nd half was better because we did limit that space and become more aggressive in out attempt to win the ball back.
  7. I'm still not sure what has changed since the early part of last season. Conceding silly goals, dominating the game, not taking chances. If anything we are creating less good chances than last season, especially in the bigger games. Still early days but it's been an underwhelming start. The best two players on the pitch were Gueye and Barkley by far.
  8. I don't really know what we are trying to achieve in attack. More bodies doesn't mean more goals!
  9. That's a good ball from Gerry but Valencia is on his heels.
  10. I have no idea what Jags was trying to achieve with that ball into the box or the following header. He looks knackered.
  11. Great ball from Bolasie there. He should stay right!
  12. We could have conceded 2 from set pieces again today. I thought that was Martinez's fault!
  13. Yeh again I repeat, why is Lennon still on. If Gerry has that time and space he would have done something with it by now.
  14. I don't know why Lennon is on the pitch still.
  15. Much better start to the 2nd half. More aggressive
  16. I have seen these players do far better than this. I have seen far worse players do better than this. Faults lie with the management.
  17. We just look to be giving them too much space and then when we attack we are giving them too much time to get organised. It's essentially the same as begining of last season. Lennon has added nothing, I don't see how he fits into this squad anymore. I think the midfield 3 are doing well enough but the front 3 aren't combining with them regularly enough. When they do we have created clear cut chances.
  18. That's never a penalty... sigurdson backs into Jags
  19. Gana wins so many tackles it's unreal. Iv never seen anything like it.
  20. Ah Ross, should have scored. He did really well in that move. McCarthy spreading the play well too. We are starting to wake up now.
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