| Dozzell 09:40 - Feb 15 with 2845 views | Ned_Kennedys |
Critchley almost deserves to lose his job for firstly picking Dozzell and secondly leaving him on for 80 minutes.
Thought I’d watch him closely last night to see if I was missing anything about his talent: first half the data analysts would’ve loved him as his pass completion must’ve been nearly 100%. Unfortunately all of these were short passes sideways or back contributing nothing to our attack. A couple of safe longer passes out to the sides thrown in as well but anonymous overall.
Perhaps he was spoken to at HT about influencing the game more as early on he tried a few forward passes which went straight to a Sunderland player and led to attacks: after that he reverted to type apart from a ridiculous foul for a booking.
Only redeeming feature is he stays fit which is a big plus in our squad of sick notes. He’s the last player you’d want in a relegation battle IMO: clearly signed due to his misleading stats and surely giving a chance to a young midfielder like Dixon-Bonner would be preferable to seeing Dozzell again.
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| Dozzell on 09:42 - Feb 15 with 2824 views | Rangersw12 |
I would give him credit for being the only player showing for the defence but bar that he wasn't great
Looked like he was trying to get sent off aswell to avoid the long trip to Boro |  | | |
| Dozzell on 09:46 - Feb 15 with 2775 views | Ad99 |
And yet everyone screams for him to play because he's one of ours and not a loan player. Trying to wade through the squall of emotions at QPR is a nightmare in itself. | | | |
| Dozzell on 09:46 - Feb 15 with 2762 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
I assume they signed him based on the data for his two-yard passes and the fact that Les recognised his surname. Job done, let's hit the golf course. | | | |
| Dozzell on 10:10 - Feb 15 with 2693 views | OakR |
In fairness to him he was one of the few who showed for the ball and always made himself available which is more than can be said for quite a few.
He did try some direct balls but you need movement for that. We were so static.
I felt sorry for him. We played him in the Ray Wilkins role but with Chris Martin upfront for Les Ferdinand, and Laird for Beardsley, never mind the rest. If you want to play hom you need mobility so he can thread the ball through. He tried to force / have the ball away needlessly but whilst he'll get slaughtered there was far worse out there IMO, at least he tried. | |
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| Dozzell on 10:14 - Feb 15 with 2633 views | BklynRanger |
There's some kind of (don't laugh) tactical thing going on whereby one of Dozzell or Field sit in between the two centre backs. I'm guessing this is to offer protection and allow one of those two to break forward.
Anyway it doesn't work. When it's Fields turn to do it it keeps him further away from the play then he should be, and he's the only one of the midfield with any kind of clue, so that's a big loss.
When Dozzell does it, like most of last night, he seems to use it as an opportunity to hide. Rather than try to play his way into the game he just stood there, as said, continually playing it square to either Dunne or Dickie for one of THEM to attempt to find a player up field.
Totally nonsensical. If Stef is fit enough to come on for 10 mins (and be awful) he should be fit enough to do that 'thing' - whatever it is. I'm well past empathising and really don't want to see Dozzell again this season. [Post edited 15 Feb 2023 10:16]
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| Dozzell on 10:30 - Feb 15 with 2525 views | Northolt_Rs |
| Dozzell on 10:10 - Feb 15 by OakR |
In fairness to him he was one of the few who showed for the ball and always made himself available which is more than can be said for quite a few.
He did try some direct balls but you need movement for that. We were so static.
I felt sorry for him. We played him in the Ray Wilkins role but with Chris Martin upfront for Les Ferdinand, and Laird for Beardsley, never mind the rest. If you want to play hom you need mobility so he can thread the ball through. He tried to force / have the ball away needlessly but whilst he'll get slaughtered there was far worse out there IMO, at least he tried. |
He was total gash. |  |
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| Dozzell on 11:00 - Feb 15 with 2377 views | stanistheman |
| Dozzell on 10:10 - Feb 15 by OakR |
In fairness to him he was one of the few who showed for the ball and always made himself available which is more than can be said for quite a few.
He did try some direct balls but you need movement for that. We were so static.
I felt sorry for him. We played him in the Ray Wilkins role but with Chris Martin upfront for Les Ferdinand, and Laird for Beardsley, never mind the rest. If you want to play hom you need mobility so he can thread the ball through. He tried to force / have the ball away needlessly but whilst he'll get slaughtered there was far worse out there IMO, at least he tried. |
I agree with aspects of not having players running into spaces but that doesn’t excuse his constant backwards and sideways passes nor the inexplicably stray passed to Sunderland players in the 2nd half.
Having him play where he did meant Field being totally wasted on the right of the 3 man midfield. | | | |
| Dozzell on 11:37 - Feb 15 with 2243 views | qprd |
Why is he getting credit for showing for the ball?
Critchley deployed him very deep, so effectively, it was quite easy for him to show for the ball under no pressure and acres away from teammates
Dozzell actually looked very good for about the first 8 minutes, and then faded away very fast
As a player, what is his attribute? Usually every midfielder has at least one big attribute, be it they are good at breaking up play (field), making late runs into the box and getting involved in buildup, passing, reading the game well, leadership, etc etc... Dozzell ostensibly has no calling card attribute.... he's just an eh player
He is also woefully one footed, which means he cant access large parts of the pitch with his passing b/c hes too afraid to use his right
finally, on critchley
field is clearly better at breaking up play than dozzell. field tried hard yesterday when he was pusehd forward in the second half but hes not really that great going forward and getting involved in build up higher up the pitch. so why was dozzell playing as a central defensive midfielder while field was playing as a right winger in the second half?
we wouldve been so much better off with field in the break-up role and a proper attacking player in the right wing role.... | | | |
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| Dozzell on 11:45 - Feb 15 with 2215 views | Logman |
He didn't have his greatest game - I think his confidence was shot in the second half. The same could be said for a few others, e.g. Dickie, Kakay etc.
But compared with the loanees who are seemingly just here for a paid sabbatical until they get recalled by their parent clubs I think I would put him in.
Was a very tough watch towards the end yesterday when we literally had about 7 players battling to keep things respectable while Sunderland were running amok.
Felt sorry for them. Felt they were let down by two players who are clearly too slow and one or two others who were too slap-dash/not bothered. | | | |
| Dozzell on 12:07 - Feb 15 with 2139 views | paulparker |
Crap player , crap signing , another load of money spaffed up the wall that we won’t get back
The only thing in his defence is at least he isn’t crying off sick like Amos, Richards, Roberts ,JCS and co |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Dozzell on 13:02 - Feb 15 with 1943 views | LazyFan |
| Dozzell on 11:00 - Feb 15 by stanistheman |
I agree with aspects of not having players running into spaces but that doesn’t excuse his constant backwards and sideways passes nor the inexplicably stray passed to Sunderland players in the 2nd half.
Having him play where he did meant Field being totally wasted on the right of the 3 man midfield. |
You are both correct.
Beale had him behind Laird and whoever was play right wing so, when that 1-2 broke down they could pass back to him using his left foot to sweep it to the other side. The idea was the opp defence would be stretched to the right and then we sweep it to the left using either Field/JoJo/Dozzell to Chair and Willock on the left who would now have the space to do their usual.
The problem is Willock was injured and Chair does not move it fast enough on his own, not to mention the opp teams started working it out and did not get drawn to the right as much.
So, Critch changed so Dozzell would be the defence's handoff person to play it through to the sides or middle and Field would be upfield for the quick press if we lost the ball. The problem is Dozzell is not good enough at passing forwards and has no mobility and cannot tackle.
Our real overall problem is we are too open, yes you heard that before, but what it means is we do not stop the oppo from sweeping through our middle at will. We only have two midfielders who can do that, Field and either on of the fit JoJo/Amos (I count them as one as they often are not fit enough). Tim cannot do it as we have seen, he always was an attacking midfielder in my mind, despite what he and others have claimed.
We need 3 of them in there to at least block oppo attacks, can do that, we have done it before. What we need to do is have Dickie move up into midfield as we did with Hall in the past. I was not great with Hall, but what we have now in the middle is not working, we need way more tacklers in there. Sure it won't create goals, but at least it will stop the bleeding.
Also, we can only have one fullback be a wingback, not both. So, that means Kakay over Laird as we have no cover for Paal. This means 3 are always back and 3 are always hunting as a pack in the middle for the press. Then the remaining 4 can attack. Will Critchley address the problem though? Thats the real test. |  |
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| Dozzell on 13:30 - Feb 15 with 1870 views | terryb |
I thought the opening 20 minutes was the best he has played for us. The other 70 he was dire, but what do you expect?
We signed him for an over inflated fee from a League One club that wasn't even competing for a place in the play offs. What's more is that he couldn't get into that Ipswich side & they would have virtually given him away!
He was signed because he "showed promise" when he first played for Ipswich as a youngster. And then he got injured & never recovered his form! How many players have we signed that that applies to? We're really good at signing these & only Field has been worth the signature.
I don't know if signing him was down to Warburton, Belk or Ferdinand, but it didn't make sense at the time & it still doesn't. | | | |
| Dozzell on 13:41 - Feb 15 with 1814 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
It is getting a bit OTT singling out players, as my son said he was poor, but not the worse.
Dozzell was signed as a long term replacement for Johansen, so they shouldn't really play together like the Milwall game. However, he probably needs ball winners around him, like the Wilkins/Holloway/Barker combination.
Your holding midfield player should also be the best passer as they will start the moves forward, but if no one wants the ball ahead then he'll either go backwards or try and force a pass forward and be intercepted.
He was excellent at the beginning of the season, Hull at home an example, but like the rest his confidence is shot. | | | |
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