This is where I see your view as limited. Again I apologise if you take offence but it's hard to word so it doesn't sound rude. If this was a pub and we were talking it wouldn't sound rude. Please bare with it as it's a good debate. Pelle played 10 minutes and you've picked out three times the ball came to him. Three times we gave up possession. That's 100% fail rate. Now it was only three times and ten minutes and limited time in the pitch; I accept that. However, that ten minutes was indicative of his last three months play. He needs to change down and start playing simple. If you look at any one of those as a one off incident, then there is always an argument to say that he made the right decision and it nearly came off, but I'm at the stage where he is doing it everytime or very nearly every time. This then makes it poor decision making and you can't look at it in isolation. The third one you conveniently "meh'd" was when he had the ball into his feet and he did have support - Clyne was 8-10 yards off him and behind him in support. Pelle ignored the easy pass AGAIN and tries to swivel and play it forward. We lost possession. He has been doing this for months and so when the ball heads towards him I know now what will happen. Either: 1. The defender will win the header 2. Pelle will flick it forwards to no one 3. He'll have a touch and try to play a forward through ball 4. The defender will step round him and win it I don't want to be too down on him as he has had to play every game until Sunday. My point is trying to show you what I've been seeing. He doesn't hold it and lay it back simply. He seems to want to either score or play a killer pass and appears desperate to do that. I strongly believe he has all the attributes to hold it up, lay it off and keep our attacks in progress while looking like a great centre forward.
