We can keep crying "unfair" and "bad luck" all we want... Our recruitment is shocking... The 2 "biggest" signings of the summer can't stay fit. Jorginho over Merino??? Has to be fitness/injury related.
Moreover we won't even try Saka at LW when he's completely getting nullified by a good FB
We seem reluctant to build up on the left and Havirtz can't hold onto the ball today. Saka is the only outlet. Nothing but sterile possession today. I don't understand why our build up is always sooooooo slow.
We don't seem to have a plan B. The only plan seems to be to pass the ball to Odegaard or Saka and hopefully a cross from either of them could create something. The problem with this is that no one attacks the box. Havertz is almost always in no man's land.
My concern with Partey at right back is no longer his defending, but what we lose in attack on that side compared to Timber. I’d move Timber over to try and unlock them using our favorite triangle.
I agree. Keep as many players in their best positions. Wonder about Rice at left back, and getting trossard to left 8 with Martinelli outside him. If we need more creativity and goal threat Leo closer to the box would help, I think.
Then you’d have to take a chance on Tierney who hasn’t played a game in months or MLS next to a shaky Kiwior. I wholeheartedly agree with the premise, but those two options for LB scare me when the back line looks fairly shaky as is.
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Moreover we won't even try Saka at LW when he's completely getting nullified by a good FB
I’d bring Merino on for Jorginho and push Rice back to 6.