Eddie said it at halftime, we play good football, we have most of possession, but there's not much end product.
Thing is, if we keep up this intensity, and its the intensity that the opposition have problems with, we will, again be burnt out by Christmas...
Bamford needs too many chances to score. Agree Pablo is too old to play as an out-and-out winger. Klich looks knackered at the end of every game when he comes off so maybe time for Costa on the wing & Pablo to No. 10. Costa will rip the **** out of this league and needs to play IMO.
Yes huge thanks for the feed @ellandback it was appreciated. It’s a long way to go and I still have you down as firm favourites to top the table at the end of the season. We are enjoying it while we can. You have to give Cooper top marks though with the Swans undefeated since he took over.
Take another look at their goal, you can see all the ball watchers who should've been able to stop the goal, but didn't.
The plan of hoping to tire teams out and then letting Eddie and Costa cause havoc was working for the most part but it's not the long term answer IMO. When you have a 15M rated player like Helder who is technically better than what we already have and you have also acknowledged that our goals to chances ratio is poor, then surely he needs to start in future so we can get on the front foot early and try and snuff teams out.
Just seen the highlights. FFS all over them but lose to a scruffy goal right at the end. A bit of deja vu creeping in again with 20+ shots and loads more possession. Perhaps Bielsa will change the team as we have now lost.
Was just going to point out in Helder and Eddie we have over what £40m in value sitting on the bench?
Two good teams that were only going to be decided by that one late goal, thought you boys looked sure for it, but as sods law would have it, we pinched it in the end, you had the lions share of the possession, and way more shots than us, but you only had 3 on target, we only had 2 shots on target all game, one going in of course. I am not sure how long you can keep up that intensity, it's a long season, I think you need a backup plan for going the season's distance so you don't tail off at the business end of the season, still I think you will be top of the table again soon enough, though no doubt we have had a dream start under Cooper.....
Two good teams, we get beat by a deflected goal, Swansea got the rub of the green today we didn't, thought Phillips had a poor game, we move on early days yet
No doubt Bielsa has his methods and maybe he feels Costa needs to get up to speed. Well, they have the international break coming up now and so plenty of time for getting him sharp. One thing about Costa when fit is that he is a 90 minute player and will give 100% effort from the first minute to the last. I like Eddie as well but I wonder how he would fare week in week out with the rigours of the Championship and some tough physical defending. Suppose there is only one way to find out though!
Very serious, miss hit or not, basic rule of defending, cover your posts. Both Dallas and Phillips stood and watched it.
