nwgull
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Everton play it out from the back? I assume you watched Pickford for England in the Euros? It was like the Peter Kaye John Smiths advert at times.
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[Albion] Villarreal friendly 10/8/24
- Thread starter timbha
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Utter tosh... I'm not the greatest fan of Milner but I thought he looked secure, fit and inventive
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Yep.
Think it's Weiffer and Milner in the centre for the foreseeable.
I have no problem with that.
In fact I think it has every chance of being a stronger combo than Gross & Gilmour
Never ever that simple.
severnside gull
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Lots that was very good today especially playing through midfield and from wide - pacy and inventive. But still very open in defence. A long diagonal or a cross or a long ball down the middle - they all look likely to catch us just that fraction too high and lacking pace
LamieRobertson
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That’s exactly what I was thinking …the OP knows this surely
Happy with that to a large extent.
Probably a different game if they scored the one they hit the post from in the first minute and we never seemed secure down our right. Don’t think Velts was a conventional RB. At one point he popped up at left back.
That apart we were great. Very good pressing, some lovely passing, great finishing. Hopefully bags of confidence going into next week.
Minteh is quick and hard working but struggles at the time with decision making and touch. Weiffer will be a beast. Very instrumental in our second. Pedro’s finish was world class.
All in all we’re going to need to press and finish like that if we’re abandoning right back and midfield as concepts. But if we can keep the first and improve the second it’s going to be a great season.
Probably a different game if they scored the one they hit the post from in the first minute and we never seemed secure down our right. Don’t think Velts was a conventional RB. At one point he popped up at left back.
That apart we were great. Very good pressing, some lovely passing, great finishing. Hopefully bags of confidence going into next week.
Minteh is quick and hard working but struggles at the time with decision making and touch. Weiffer will be a beast. Very instrumental in our second. Pedro’s finish was world class.
All in all we’re going to need to press and finish like that if we’re abandoning right back and midfield as concepts. But if we can keep the first and improve the second it’s going to be a great season.
- Apr 13, 2015
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Agreed, you have to hope that a fit Dunk will add a bit of caution and guidance to not commit too far...... unless of course FH doesn't want caution to be part of his master plan.
He’s (just) 20 with very little first team football. Give him time.
bobbysmith01
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- Feb 6, 2015
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Really enjoyed that, positives are:
1. We press really well in final third
2. Slick passing and very fast
3. Liked the central midfield partners
Not many negatives
1.Dunk looked unfit
2.we were done a few times down the right
In summary, good workout against a solid team and in parts we looked superb. We have still have Van Brugan, Lamptey, Enciso, Igor, Perv, Ferguson and Solly to come back in as well. Looking forward to the season.
1. We press really well in final third
2. Slick passing and very fast
3. Liked the central midfield partners
Not many negatives
1.Dunk looked unfit
2.we were done a few times down the right
In summary, good workout against a solid team and in parts we looked superb. We have still have Van Brugan, Lamptey, Enciso, Igor, Perv, Ferguson and Solly to come back in as well. Looking forward to the season.
Thought he looked utterly miserable for the first 20 minutes, and that manifested itself in a below par start for him…..
However, two 60 yard passes later he was back to normal.
Uh_huh_him
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phoenix
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So they booked a seat in all innocence and they are wankers. calm down just to say i had my normal seat
On todays showing, we are not going to have a clean sheet in the PL, until probably Christmas 2027.
Whether we can out score the opposition week in week out is unlikely, but currently we are far better going forward and pressing than defending.
It could well mirror the Barry Lloyd season where we ended in the play-offs with a negative goal difference, lots of 3-2 wins and heavy defeats.
It will be fun.
Whether we can out score the opposition week in week out is unlikely, but currently we are far better going forward and pressing than defending.
It could well mirror the Barry Lloyd season where we ended in the play-offs with a negative goal difference, lots of 3-2 wins and heavy defeats.
It will be fun.
- Jul 27, 2024
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Um, but we had a clean sheet today…?
I feel confident we’ll do better than last year when we went to somewhere round Christmas before keeping a clean sheet!
Justice
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To be fair the coach got the first 15 minutes sorted and they hardly had a sniff, by the end of the game they looked so demoralised from 90 minutes of high tense pressing..
Machiavelli
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Barco to Mitoma is the one to watch
- Oct 20, 2022
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And Minteh to Welbeck?
el punal
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My grandson said Villarreal were shit - fair point, but I replied that probably our performance was that good that we made them look shit. The proof of the pudding will of course be how we fare against Everton next week.