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Defenders in our squard.

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What do we have in reserve if Morgan and Huth get injured. I know we have our big pole but who else, are there some up and coming players who can slot in at the back??

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Huth - Suspensions and not looking like the brick wall of last 1.5 seasons. Thinks he is a sweeping CB despite being slow.

Morgan - Clumsy and scarily average without Huth or Schmeichel.

Wasilewski - Done at this level

Hernandez - Good freebie but not seen him much at CB to judge

Benalouane - Not sure he will play for us again

 

Average age about 40. What were we thinking in the Summer?

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I would like to have seen Benny registered with us. He is probably the most mobile CB we have in the squad. However we know that a young CB was needed in the summer also.

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You couldn't foresee the bad defending we've done,nor could the coaching staff,

weve been done over by 3 of the top 6 this season in there own backyard,start asking questions at xmas time,not now,there good players having bad games,there's no need to start wanting rid of them

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Our preparation for this season was laughable... Going into this season with numerous aging centre backs and Hernandez who is also slow.

 

I'd rather we play Hernandez at centre back now instead of Morgan anyway.

 

We need to buy in Jan, seriously.

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2 minutes ago, Russell sprout said:

You couldn't foresee the bad defending we've done,nor could the coaching staff,

weve been done over by 3 of the top 6 this season in there own backyard,start asking questions at xmas time,not now,there good players having bad games,there's no need to start wanting rid of them

Not so much foreseeing any bad spell just seeing we had no real back up. Also no quality to replace for injuries and suspensions.

 

Enough of us on here were saying we needed a RB and two quality CB's. I don't think any of us thought we would need them because our players were piss poor though.

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21 minutes ago, sphericalfox said:

 

He'll be getting a strategic yellow then. Wonder which game.

 

Huth will get a booking against Palace next week for a cynical elbow and miss Spurs away. 

 

Can we get Matt Elliott off the radio and play him instead?

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26 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

Huth - Suspensions and not looking like the brick wall of last 1.5 seasons. Thinks he is a sweeping CB despite being slow.

Morgan - Clumsy and scarily average without Huth or Schmeichel.

Wasilewski - Done at this level

Hernandez - Good freebie but not seen him much at CB to judge

Benalouane - Not sure he will play for us again

 

Average age about 40. What were we thinking in the Summer?

Hernandez was bought in but as far as I am aware spent most of his time playing CB in Spain. As for asking what we were thinking, well we were thinking an English Central Defender who has now been called up into the current England squad (Michael Keane). They seemingly wanted too much money.

 

I know he is clumsy regarding ball distribution but I`d make a move for Sakho from Liverpool. He is out of favour and his career is going nowhere at the moment. He is still 26 and I think he is the type of no nonsense defender we need but with a bit more pace. 

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2 minutes ago, Koke said:

 

Huth will get a booking against Palace next week for a cynical elbow and miss Spurs away. 

 

Can we get Matt Elliott off the radio and play him instead?

Hernandez and Wes in defence at Spurs away? That's a frightening thought 

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1 hour ago, lgfualol said:

Huth - Suspensions and not looking like the brick wall of last 1.5 seasons. Thinks he is a sweeping CB despite being slow.

Morgan - Clumsy and scarily average without Huth or Schmeichel.

Wasilewski - Done at this level

Hernandez - Good freebie but not seen him much at CB to judge

Benalouane - Not sure he will play for us again

 

Average age about 40. What were we thinking in the Summer?

Haha who played when we won the league?

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1 hour ago, Wymeswold fox said:

Hasn't Amartey played at CB for Copenhagen at times?

He moved there in the EFL when wasyl got sent off and didn't look that comfortable.. (He was up against costa though)

 

hernandez seems just about ok as a full back against mediocre CL teams but up against decent PL teams will expose him. We under estimate how much sweeping up behind the centre halves Simpson gets through. Luis isn't really a full back and therefore this covering doesn't come naturally to him.  

 

analyse the goals we are conceding and my view (no shit Sherlock) is a lack of concentration. we managed  to keep it together for the whole 90 mins each game last year (once the full backs were changed)  but this season we are just not there mentally. perhaps the come down from the high of last may needs to work itself through and getting there for the CL fixtures and home matches is about all we can manage at present.  We also have precious little planning time for these difficult games compared to last year, especially if Claudio is prioritising analysis of the CL opposition and giving the players less tactical ammunition ahead of the away PL fixtures preceding them. 

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