Simpson

[deep blue]

Villa's second and City's goal today both came down our left! I'm just sayin'.

Good point. Not necessarily the RB's fault, though. In both cases their winger was faced by 2 of our players but they failed to work together to close him down and stifle the threat.

[cc_star]

Pretty flat footed Vs Villa.

Goals still conceded from that flank, not Konchesky's who gets all the flack.

RDL has struggled when LB & LW have ganged up on him, whereas Mahrez far more disciplined Vs City

So let's not start sucking each others dicks just yet

[Freeman's Wharfer]

Villa's second and City's goal today both came down our left! I'm just sayin'.

 

 

Good point. Not necessarily the RB's fault, though. In both cases their winger was faced by 2 of our players but they failed to work together to close him down and stifle the threat.

 

Most goals we have conceded this season have come down our right hand side.

[StanSP]

Villa's second and City's goal today both came down our left! I'm just sayin'.

 

Means fvck all when you take in to account that for one of the goals our centre-back has been dragged out to right-wing and no-one can be arsed to mark their right back in acres of space.

[Dr The Singh]

Homer did well

[VLC86]

Homer did well

Doh

[Dr The Singh]

That's what he said when the goal went in

[Dickov22]

I like them both. Think people need to give Simpson a few more games before deciding he's 'definitely superior to De Laet'. Good that we have two good players for one position. Unlike at left back

[savillefoxes]

Why not play De Laet in front of Simpson. Bag of energy to get forward and help out at the back. De Laets defending has always been suspect so why not use his pace going forward.

[Bettsj2]

Why not play De Laet in front of Simpson. Bag of energy to get forward and help out at the back. De Laets defending has always been suspect so why not use his pace going forward.

Would never work. He has the ability and pace to overlap nothing else. Coupled with the fact his crosses are usually dogshit, its not an option I think we should bother with.

[Mark_w]

Why not play De Laet in front of Simpson. Bag of energy to get forward and help out at the back. De Laets defending has always been suspect so why not use his pace going forward.

 

There is absolutely no need to change anything at all until we see what this formation does against weaker opposition than Man City, we looked great yesterday.

[CPW22]

I prefer Simpson over RDL but I do wish he would take a touch at times rather than knocking or heading it back directly where it came from.

Knoch is the same too.

[adam95581]

Thought he was at fault for the goal to be fair. Wasilewski told him where to be and he didn't fill the space. You could tell he was a full back covering a centre half at that point. Apart from that he's been decent though.

[StanSP]

Thought he was at fault for the goal to be fair. Wasilewski told him where to be and he didn't fill the space. You could tell he was a full back covering a centre half at that point. Apart from that he's been decent though.

 

Think Cambiasso got caught ball-watching too. He lost Lampard and didn't track his run.

[Buzzell]

Think Cambiasso got caught ball-watching too. He lost Lampard and didn't track his run.

Agreed. This was pulled up by Savage last night on MOTD. He should of dropped back into the center of midfield and tracked Lampard before his goal.

[Dickov22]

Agreed. This was pulled up by Savage last night on MOTD. He should of dropped back into the center of midfield and tracked Lampard before his goal.

Careful you two. I've suggested this in the post match thread and been called a 'moron'.

[StanSP]

Careful you two. I've suggested this in the post match thread and been called a 'moron'.

 

how and why?! 

[Dom_Harborough Fox]

Got to be honest, wasn't over the moon when we signed Simpson. Thought he'd be decent back up at this level but nothing more. Credit where it's due, he's come in and done well. Feel we're more assured defensively with him in the side and there've been a couple of times where he's overlapped pretty well and got a ball in too. I'm a fan of De Laet but Simpson deserves his place in the side at the moment and having that competition for the RB slot should make both of them step it up.

[Dickov22]

how and why?!

Because it 'obviously wasn't Cambiasso's fault, it was Simpson's fault'

Odd. His man, so majority of the blame sits with him. Collectively though we are a ****ing embarrassment defensively

[The Doctor]

Would rather De Laet tbh - at fault for the goal yesterday (people can try to pin the blame on Cambiasso and Konch, but it's his man to pick up, and he didn't) and showed no real improvement over De Laet, considering how De Laet dealt with Sterling against Simpsons two performances I'd say he's a more steady defender.

[Saxondale]

I cannot believe what I'm reading about Simpson. I thought he was absolutely hopeless on Saturday.

Maybe I'd accidentally eaten some magic mushrooms and was tripping my tits off, because he looked like a massive liability to me.

[L1wood]

I've always rated Simpson as a RB even when he has played against us .

Some people are raving abit RDL being our best player so far but IMO i don't see it too many times he gets caught out

[MrSpaM]

I've always rated Simpson as a RB even when he has played against us .

Some people are raving abit RDL being our best player so far but IMO i don't see it too many times he gets caught out

 

For every time RDL get's caught out, he makes at least 4-5 great tackles or gets us out of the shit. People only seem to notice when he makes a mistake though. He gets clapped a lot more than he gets berated by the fans on match day.

[L1wood]

Key is we conceed far too often from him being reckless in position

For every time RDL get's caught out, he makes at least 4-5 great tackles or gets us out of the shit. People only seem to notice when he makes a mistake though. He gets clapped a lot more than he gets berated by the fans on match day.