We beat teams beginning with a B right? Aina may be injured anyway but the rb experiment has to end. We have Tomori, let's play him rb. We have Mazuch let's play him cb. Was Mazuch even on the bench yesterday? Didn't see him warm up. It's either 4-3-3 for me or 4-4-****ing2. The system we play leaves our cm's and defence exposed as it is and two of the defenders aren't good defenders!! Greegsy Tomori Dawson Mazuch Clark Meyler Stewart Larsson Bowen Campbell Growshitski Let's be strong and aggressive in midfield and provide the back four with a screen and hit them on the break with the pace of growshitski and Bowen. It's a plan. I don't think Leo sees it the same way unfortunately. 3-1 city. Got to believe.
Think your midfield is a bit defensive there, I'd play Irvine instead of Larsson. I'm not too fed up with Hector but I'd quite like to see what Mazuch is made of.
But if Tomori can do the RB job, Clark's been looking better and better, and if Dawson and Hector/Mazuch feel confident about cover from Meyler and Stewart surely we can afford an adventurous midfielder?
Three forwards is enough. One of the three cm's can take it in turns to break forward. Those three are more defensively minded, which is what we need.
There is NO WAY Dawson should be playing, he has been poor all season, as for his game against Forest if he had backed off any further he would be in the crowd. He needs to try tackle, he isn't there just to block. Hector's fine, get Mazuch in and let them build an understanding. Asombalonga is big, fast and scores. We need a bit of fight in there. While I'm at it get Meyler off, he passes to the opposition and just runs into them. So our captain and vice captain gone. Henrickson is just one pace, f###king slow. Plenty of games left if we can get a run going anything can happen, Sluts needs to pick the better players we have.
Boro begins with an M unfortunately. It's not about which players the clueless ****wit of a useless dickwad manager selects, it's about which players he sacks off. Aina out. Hector out. Henriksen, Henriksen, Henriksen, out, out, out.
Give Dawson a break FFS. He's a having to cover for the rest of the inexperienced defence as well as trying to play his own game. Hopefully we'll see Tomori and Mazuch in against Boro in place of Hector and Aina. Henriksen can leave the club for me as he's stealing his wages.
Yes, Boro does indeed start with a B. The Boro, Middlesbrough chant always intrigued me. Same, probably, as they felt when we used to chant give us C...an....I...a t.... a y...and announce that we had got was The Tigers.
This, seriously. Dawson is on the slide but there is only so much he can do to compensate for the lack of quality in his teammates and the utter ineptitude of his head coach.