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Paal was always unlikely to last ninety minutes. Smyth has a groin injury and has been replaced for that reason the last couple of games. Maybe today was the same.
I agree that he's raw, but I really want to see him at RB/RWB for Ireland. Ireland need someone there. I think it's been a huge hole for years. He's always played as a defender, too.
He's on the bench today. Udinese B team just announced.
He's an exciting player, even from his time at Derby. Finally broken into the Irish team at the expense of the aging and injury-prone Coleman and the disengaged Doherty. I see Watford have been playing him on the left, which is odd, but he's still be dangerous.
I think he needs to develop his game from the push-and-run wing-play he currently favours but I think he has the skill to develop.
Very fair point. I was really only talking about the result, Derby. I agree in terms of performance, though.
I thought we were nervous in possession again and rarely built a calm move to relieve the pressure.
I also thought we tired again, mentally, physically, combination of both?...who knows from the outside.
It looked like what it was - a team desperately trying to win it's first game in ages. I thought we looked calm at the back but nervous from there on up.
Hopefully, we'll show more poise on Saturday now that we've a win under our belt.
Plus we don't have defenders who're comfortable defending with a high line, so we end up either defending deep en-masse or with our back line deep and space between our lines.
Whatever model we recruited for it doesn't *seem* to allow Cifuentes' preferred style.
"I don't doubt anything written here and thanks for posting but I would point out there is a whole league of nuance between Marti being involved with the recruitment process and him being happy - or even not livid with it."
A world of difference, and "a league of nuance" sounds right. Also, as you rightly say - "we'll never know the truth and to an extent we shouldn't."
As a Championship keeper, Nardi is a mixed bag imo. Good with his feet and a decent shot-stopper, excellent positioining, but has been very poor on crosses and corners and is a huge reason, I think, why we're poor at defending corners as a team and why we have to bring so many blockers back.
Hope he improves his aerial game, and he may well do with confidence.
But after the last few months of nonsense coming from the club, I will be remaining incredibly sceptical about anything they have to say until they earn back some credibility.
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