Joey Crows Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 2 minutes ago, Rorshach said: Perhaps. Hard to say, because too many players aren't really turned on so far. Gomes misses touches, Richarlison is just struggling, DCL can't get things right.. Iwobi for Richarlison and Kean for DCL is a possibility, but maybe they are too unfamiliar with the team for both to be playing togheter? Dunno. Then you've gotta put on Walcott with Iwobi haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 1 minute ago, Joey Crows said: Then you've gotta put on Walcott with Iwobi haha. Now that's just mean.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Feels like Digne's spent a disproportionate amount of time sprinting over to stop Mina getting himself sent off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Banana skin. Villa have one great pass, they score. We have a lot of posessioin, several okay chances, at least three good ones, and we can't score for toffee. Literally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Heh. Can't find a way through a packed Palace, can't find a way through a packed Villa. We need to do better against defensive blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Everton threw away three points there. Had Villa on the ropes but fluffed a few very good chances at 1-0. Iwobi did look lively and caused problems for Villa's defence. Gomes had a poor game and Yerry Mina doesn't look to be a good defender. Wesley was excellent for Villa - had Keane on toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskaral Pust Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 That's a shocker for Everton. I'm not sure how Schneiderlin and DCL earned starting spots tonight but even so the play shown by Digne, Bernard, Siggurdson and Gomes in the last couple of games should have been plenty to create a goal or two tonight, especially against the right side of Villa's defense. But they've only scored one goal now in three PL games, despite having more chances than their opponents in each game and heavily dominating possession in two of those. Richarlison is a bit off form, but you'd expect him to come back strongly. (Is he tired after the Copa?) And Kean isn't trusted yet. They should be doing better than this. One point from two games against Palace and Villa, who both look in disarray atm, is a let down even if those games were away from home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Gomes was absolutely shocking tonight. On the other hand Villa have a good midfield, Douglas Luiz is going to enrage opposition and be beloved by Villa fans though he's a right old troll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Rudiger not back yet and no Kante in the Chelsea squad either. That's a big boost for Norwich and they should be able to create a lot more scoring opportunities without Kante there to run the midfield. ETA. Pedro has picked up a knock during the warm up. Barkley comes in for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 No way palace hold on, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 17 minutes ago, Raja said: No way palace hold on, right? They might, we're dominating play but not exactly threatening. We probably need to get Pogba pushed up further for this one, and/or bring on Greenwood who is a better dribbler and therefore more likely to do well in tight spaces than Daniel James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon the Leaner Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 On 8/19/2019 at 10:20 PM, Soylent Brown said: Why do United let Rashford waste so many freekicks? That must be really annoying to watch. New game, same shit. I guess he take them well at training ? I can recall Mourinho talking about Rashford scoring screamers at training... Everyone in this team have been shit so far anyway, bar AWB and James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Glad I picked the Palace United game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Liverpool: Adrian, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Mane, Salah, Firmino. Subs: Kelleher, Milner, Gomez, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana, Shaqiri, Origi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arsenal: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Luiz, Sokratis, Monreal, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Willock, Ceballos, Pepe, Aubameyang Subs: Martinez, Mkhitaryan, Lacazette, Torreira, Chambers, Nelson, Kolasinac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Antony Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Always rated Hodgson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Poor performance. For the second game running, we dominate possession but hardly create much and miss a penalty. This game would have brought those overly optimistic United fans back down to earth. I still maintain that this squad is only good enough for a 6th place finish at best. Our midfield and forward line is worse than last season and lacks depth as well. You look at our bench today and there was not a single player on there who you'd honestly say could have come on and made a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 1 minute ago, Consigliere said: You look at our bench today and there was not a single player on there who you'd honestly say could have come on and made a difference. Was reading the BBC live feed during the game and apparently Waddle just would not stop banging on about bringing Mata on. Like fuck was he gonna do anything and he didn't. I appreciate the youth tradition but they've really leaned too far that way. Daniel James, good as his goal was and he looks promising, is not consistently creative yet. We're nearly at the stage where we almost need to start first-teaming Angel Gomes to add a bit of class, and that's just bad planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskaral Pust Posted August 24, 2019 Author Share Posted August 24, 2019 Just two seasons ago United were incredibly, impossibly efficient: they’d have little possession, play crap, concede a ton of shots, struggle to create anything, but still win 1-0. And they sustained that efficiency for the full season. Now they’ve done a full reverse: loads of possession, lots of shots on goal, but concede softly to one of the very few chances the opponent musters. Their play is improved from the Mourinho dross, but they’re starting to look like a late-Wenger Arsenal in terms of variability from highs to lows and lack of composure to close out games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 It has been one way traffic so far. The only decent opportunity Arsenal have had came from Adrian's brainfart. Also think that Emery is playing with fire with his tactics. He's set up the side to be very narrow which has afforded Robertson and especially TAA acres of space out wide and we all know that Liverpool's fullbacks provide a fair bit more creativity than their midfield. The narrow set up isn't really helping Arsenal in midfield either as Liverpool are winning nearly all of the second balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Pepe needs to learn how to finish but damn it’s fun having a player on the team that can make insane things happen by himself. Been a long time since Arsenal has had that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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