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I’m guessing we will see Jimmy back at right back, Edwards starting as the right sided central defender, JCS the left and Paal on the left. Maybe as soon as Leicester.
Ashby back on the bench and used as cover along with Fox.
I would not change the starting front six if they are fit and ready to go again, just make the subs much earlier depending on where we are in the game.
I don’t mind going 5 at the back if we are winning and closing out the game. Further forward, we finally have some ready made, like for like Subs, that can impact the game with fresher legs - Alfie for Frey, Saito for Illy or Smythy, Colback for one of the midfield positions etc.
When the game opens up they can cause a lot of issues (panic at times) for the opposition that may be tiring themselves. It’s a massive improvement from where we were not long ago and that’s without the injured players coming back any time soon.
Finally got some goals in the team and a whole stack of chances every game that could be converted too.
There appeared to be some similarities to the England team’s ‘love-train’ corner routines from Luton, along with some added blocking that they were pretty good at. Much better at blocking than some other skills.
How long will it be before someone rips off the Arsenal corner routine in the championship ? It doesn’t look to tricky to copy (as long as you have the delivery skills of Rice and Saka) and it’s fairly effective at throwing the defenders almost every time.
Newcastle dealt with it well last night but it would get you 20+ goals a season in our division.
Maybe we could adapt it for the ‘long’ throws somehow.
As long as we keep these habits/systems/patterns and not revert to whatever the hell we did against Swansea, hopefully the remaining games should be entertaining and rewarding.
There’s a really interesting video of his MotM performance highlights on WhatsApp.
I wasn’t overly impressed the first time i watched it (meh…) and wondered what it was about so I watched it again and then it hit me.
Either he’s head up before the ball arrives in tight areas and knows what he’s going to do already - or - he’s running with the ball looking left, right and forward as he runs. It’s quite impressive to watch it because he appears to be completely fluid and therefore one assumes, mostly natural but with a lot of confidence for a player of his age.
If you have that in your locker early doors, then that’s a great set of attributes, especially as you get stronger (remember how Gazza used to shrug people off the ball) and gain more experience.
Loads more potential development and improvement to go but the focus on him in the video is an enlightening show of talent and skill.
Kudos to him and the coaching staff for getting him into the team.
The cross to Frey was one of my highlights. I couldn’t see if he looked up before hand but it was the only ball that was going to work given the position that Frey had taken.
Frey gets quite frustrated with his service at times when he takes up good positions but that was right in the unicorn chocolatier’s wheelhouse.
The more possession we have and the less chasing the game we do, appears to correlate with less injuries.
So, as long as we don’t concede the midfield and play as we have done recently, it could well be that we have a better system for managing the players health, fitness and longevity.
If can rotate players around that base and give the subs more time (maybe 30-45mins) to make an impact without making wholesale changes, then I think that’s potentially a good balance for this game.
We also need to avoid conceding an early goal because that also disturbs our karma.
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