If we’re playing with such immobile centre backs we have to either play a lot deeper or make sure both full backs are flying machines, Milner simply isn’t. Estupinan was clearly under orders to stay back to account for Igor’s shocking lack of pace.
The 3rd was on Lamptey imo, he got caught in two minds and made a bad decision. If he hadn’t have been drawn to the man who flicked it on and instead tracked the runner he could probably have dealt with the situation.
I’m in the ‘guaranteed ticket’ window. We’re taking a slightly unconventional route, first thing Thursday morning we fly Gatwick-Geneva, hop in a rental car and we’ll be in Marseille early afternoon.
Super excited about tonight, for once I have serious excitement about the upcoming season. I genuinely believe Trevor is going take another big step forward in his development under Doug Pederson. I was reading an article recently in which Pederson made some really interesting comments about...
I think Hutchinson is a bit of a highlights package. Obviously sacks are important, but I was watching some tape from the KC game which showed him being so focused on hitting the QB that he abandons the task in hand. One particular play, Detroit have KC backed up in 3rd and long, the defence are...
Amen. After walloping Villa the Geordies thought they’d arrived, 3 consecutive losses later (only had 5 all of last season) and a few are question whether smug Eddie has been found out. It’s football, we’re fans, it’s what we do.
Yeah, we’re still short of a true CDM, as a team we will kick on again once Baleba is integrated and I feel we will see Billy go up another level with a ball winner next to him. Pervis and Joel both stayed very low yesterday to negate any Newcastle counters, once our new Cameroonian is in place...
I was very much against this move earlier in the window, however having seen the desperate lack of legs in midfield so far this season I’m actually quite in favour of it. Don’t think they will sell him though unless they need to in order to comply with FFP.
I’d be interested if it’s a permanent, but absolutely not on loan. If teams like Chelsea and City Group want their players developing in the Premier League then they should put them in their own team.