I love him, but he is what he is. He often had periods at Leicester where he was top drawer for an amount of games, and then almost anonymous for a bunch. He was just unlucky that he got injured when he was flying and the team was also playing much better. He'll come again, but we also have to accept that he's not going to be a match winner every week.
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On ignore. Are today’s homoerotic fantasies about Rice or Odegaard?Funny that the thing you will defend hardest is criticism of gooners and the thing thatShadydan will defend hardest is criticism of Levy/ENIC.
So predictable.
I wonder if Woolwich Mania puts up with the same piss-take?
‘He’s on ignore, but it won’t stop me posting literally every time his name comes up on my Deuterz Radar, or spamming him with thirty disagrees in a row (yes I counted) when I have a little man baby tantrum’.
Apparently Maddison and Sarr were carrying injuries....so why were they picked and what does that say about Locelso and the other squad members... 
Ange...some serious questions
Ange...some serious questions
Yeh, but there is no reason for him to drop so deep with Bissouma and Sarr behind him.
I think he goes looking for the ball because we’re not getting it to him in advanced positions consistently enough. He should really be as close to the front 3 as possible, which is where he does his best work.
Apparently Maddison and Sarr were carrying injuries....so why were they picked and what does that say about Locelso and the other squad members...
Ange...some serious questions
Where is that coming from? Ange didn’t say it.
If we win do we hear about carrying injuries?
Maddison isn't some EPL newbie though........ He's spent years play as a CAM in this league; successfully so...... We bought him on the strength of that.
That wasn't the story today at all......
IF you want to make excuses for him then that injury very much derailed him this season; but he was no better than the other 2 today.
Ange - and the fans - need to make their mind up as to whether we're playing 4231 or 433................ Is Madz a CAM (#10) or a left sided box-to-box?
Surely with the FBs cutting in as a matter of routine it's all the more important that the MF has a distinct shape and organisation? ...Otherwise players go missing and the oppo are afforded the chance to run riot.
......And if it's a 433 then we need a proper #6 to anchor everything.
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yes but we are getting destroyed through the middle. It's a short term solution in the hope he regains form and confidence because right now our midfield is getting bypassed with absolute ease.
I heard it after we won. Which made wonder if there would be changes. But we went exactly the same. I think it says something wether irs something about our squad...or about Ange, not sure but it's not good
Apparently Maddison and Sarr were carrying injuries....so why were they picked and what does that say about Locelso and the other squad members...
Ange...some serious questions
It doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. If Ange rated PEH and Lo Celso, they would play. He knows their level as do we all.
Ange spoke about Sarr struggling with a back injury last week. And Maddison’s training load has been carefully managed since the start of the season. He is a fragile player.
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Not just me then based on these comments.
I seem to remember him coming out to the left a lot more during that brilliant run at the beginning of the year. He seems to stay in the middle now and gets marked out of games fairly easily.
In fact, I think adding our FBs into the middle with everyone else is making it easy for the opposition to just clog it up and wait for us to misplace a pass and counter. There is absolutely no room in the middle and as soon as it gets picked off they just kick it into space on either wing. Sometimes our CB covers, sometimes it finds their player in acres of space.
In fact, I think adding our FBs into the middle with everyone else is making it easy for the opposition to just clog it up and wait for us to misplace a pass and counter. There is absolutely no room in the middle and as soon as it gets picked off they just kick it into space on either wing. Sometimes our CB covers, sometimes it finds their player in acres of space.
Yeah the difference is when he would drop deep before it would usually free up space and he will be the free man to start the quick passing moves through the lines.
Feel like we are forcing it too much and keep getting turnt over due to sloppy passing. Game then becomes pinball and too crazy to control.
Was he though?
I remember him super-high-pressing beginning of the season.
There have been times recently where he's the deepest of our CMs.