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Posted
1 minute ago, NaijaFox said:

Memories of Praet are so much rosier since he left...:D

 

Don't get me wrong, Praet wasn't perfect -  we needed more physicality in midfield, since we always get bullied.

 

But Soumare just doesn't seem to offer any more defensively, and I thought Praet's passing range was much better imo.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Foxxed said:

There's always a good possibility a scapegoat will get injured. Rotation is an important part of football.

Still blame Brian Kidd for joining us, as he would definitely have been a scapegoat

Posted
3 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Not a hugely strong performance yet but Barnes, Maddison, Thomas and on occasions Lookman and Daka have looked very direct and determined.

 

Defensively we look quite vulnerable though, which is no real surprise is it but even against absolute dog shit like this we are well capable of conceding goals and its a problem that just won't go away. Is it the midfield and attack not working in conjunction with the defence or are we just poor positionally on the counter at the back? As I've said before, Soumare so far has made very little individual difference to protecting this team, even though he does show flashes of real aggression and physicality to win the ball and play.

 

Need a few more goals please, it would be nice to go a game without Daka having an air shot as well when he plays, it's the one flaw for him currently thst he's so eager to just blister anything 😂

Haha! I've noticed that Daka loves an airshow as well.

 

I think our midfielders are absolutely terrible at tracking runners, we have a lot of ball watchers.

 

We look dangerous everytime we attack though, will be disappointed if we don't end with 5+ tbf

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My observation of Soumare in the first half was that whenever a pass was on to madders in space he was in the way. But I don’t think that’s soumare I think that’s him and ndidi sharing the deep position.

 

i think we’d have better shape with KDH on and having the wing backs do a bit more defensively.

Posted
2 minutes ago, CloudFox said:

I think that's harsh, I just don't think he's sure what to do much of the time. Although I would like to see KDH get more game time.

 

Oh I agree and I understand that. I mean what is his role? What are we expecting him to do? He's good at holding the ball up, but other than that I don't really know what to judge his performance on.

His role is to get forward when  he can and defend when out of possession. The problem he has is switching off in the transition between the two. Also he's not sure when to go and when to stay. that will take time from him and Coaching from Brendan. You have to make allowances for young players, even though there is a lot at stake.

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Posted
8 minutes ago, Charl91 said:

 

Don't get me wrong, Praet wasn't perfect -  we needed more physicality in midfield, since we always get bullied.

 

But Soumare just doesn't seem to offer any more defensively, and I thought Praet's passing range was much better imo.

Praet is a Belgian international. He makes clever runs and has a good range of passing. A selfless player that does the dirty work. Not sure why he was frozen. Soumare is decent but Praet is not bad.

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Posted
Just now, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

I like Soumare. I think he’s made for the PL and will get better and better 

Ditto. He just isn’t fit enough and is way too heavy. 

Posted
17 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

We seriously need a defender in January 

It’s ridiculous that we can’t utilise that useless Southampton lamppost - 15 million FFS 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Tom12345 said:

Oh dear. We are playing conservative football again.

That's because we are playing in blue

Posted
1 minute ago, Tom12345 said:

Soumare keeps letting players past him with ease today …

 

He's doing it every game.. His attitude and work rate is awful

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