Recent content by FdsaJoe

I'm seeing a lot of the same problems as last season. We can't be playing so deep with so little pace in the side, we're just inviting pressure.

0 shots on target is unacceptable against any team in the league. As we have been all season, we were far too deep and were simply not able to provide support to any of the attacking players. We have the defensive personnel to play a lot more courageously, but I don't see that happening any...

I think Pellegrino's biggest crime was trying to match Burnley when they went 2 up front, we completely lost out rhythm. By trying to match their strategy, we were just lumping balls up to our strikers which Burnley were eating up all day long. The first half was surprisingly positive, and much...

Anyone have any idea why Redmond seems so undroppable? To be clear, I'm a Redmond fan as when he's in form I think he's an international quality player, but his form is so patchy that it would make sense to rotate him out every once in a while. However, successive managers have started him in...

Lemina superb, exactly what we needed and is already improving from his first few performances. Hoedt's distribution looking very impressive, saw him ping a 30 yard ball with his weaker foot to Bertrand which was pretty incredible. Looks a little too relaxed defending at times though, which I'm...

Actually don't hate this lineup, in my view we had two options: Play a deep line, and add more pace to the attack to allow us to counter properly Play a high line and play a more high pressure style So far we've been playing a deep line without any pace up front, so not being able to get any...

Lost the midfield battle today and that's what killed our game. Watford didn't really threaten and scored with two speculative shots that a top half keeper should save comfortably. Cedric, Stephens and Hoedt had good games, the rest of the team were let down tactically by our manager. Ps...

Forster concedes low shots and everyone knows it.

I wonder if Lamina has a knock or fitness issues, he's clearly the substitution we need. I'm glad Pellegrino is taking action, but I don't think Tadic will make a huge amount of difference, as the ball is not getting through the midfield two to the attacking 4. As it is, Watford will continue to...

Very odd tactical choices today, we're playing a very small XI without much pace so we can't dominate the ball OR counter attack. Completely loosing the midfield battle physically, I would have brought on Lamina 10 minutes ago, if he doesn't come on at half time we haven't got a hope in this one.

Any other time in the season, poor result - we clearly have more quality than Watford. However, as a first game of the season it was a decent performance with plenty of room to improve. Biggest question for the manager - why didn't Hojberg start?

We look much much better at a higher tempo. Getting kicked about a bit by Watford, we're certainly a lot smaller than last season without Pelle and Wanyama in the side.

Neither of them are playing wide? They're both playing CM...

I know it is a diamond, but it almost looks more like 4-6-0 to me, Tadic is too often the furthest forward player and the attacking players are too far apart. 3 at the back completely nullifies this system.

Bit of a weird thing to be excited about, but that bench is insanely strong, probably the strongest bench we've had in the PL? Most of those players would probably walk into bottom half XIs!