- Smalling was immense really.
- **** Blind at CB. Jones cannot catch a break. Do not rate Rojo as CB (too much flair and average decision maker). Therefore..... big signing is needed here to partner Smalling. Ramos, Otamendi, Stones, whoever. Id back Jones in there every day of the week and twice on Sundays, but he never stays fit. Mild Thrombosis?!? Like seriously, what in the ****.
- Darmain was as solid as I expected him to be. Reckon this will go down as one of our smartest buys ever. Being from Italian background I watched this guy quite a bit and he is as solid as they come. He doesnt really have any big weaknesses, bit of a jack of all trades, which is what you want out wide. Now we need Shaw to stay fit and get some games under his belt and our wide options could look very solid.
- Depay and Bastian often tried to do a bit too much.
Not liking this 442 formation, too much space between Carrick/Schneiderlin and Depay.
This x 100000. Its putrid. We lack any sort of creativity in in the forward half of the pitch when going down the middle. Out wide we seem to do okay, but there is always this ****ing huge gaping hole in behind Rooney, and thus our link up play between deep midfield and attack is still disgusting.
We looked somewhat better when Herrera came on. At least he has a high work rate and ran into space and provided an option. Depay was as some have said, often way too far forward and we had no link man between the midfield and Rooney. Thus we piss farted around with it between wing back, deep midfield and forward wing, and it resulted in nothing.
We played like this last year way too often as well and it shits me because it is so obvious. Even at times when Mata was there, he still wasnt positioned properly and we failed to link up. We need an Oscar / Draxler type who just sit in the hole and directs everything forward of centre. So far I really haven't been impressed with Mata as a #10, but Im still willing to back him in. Id play Herrera there for a solid run of games, but that wont happen anytime soon.
Id play depay on the wing and mata in behind.
Hopefully when Pedro arrives it's him and Depay on the wings with Mata/Ander in the middle. Depay had a few runs out wide where he looked threatening and moved Tottenham's defence into an awkward shape. Needs to stay there imo.