Seriously, what the fuck do you think is the only stat we generally dominate in games? It's possession, you need to retain the ball for that. Control, strength and quality help, he has more of that than most of our players. He is deployed all over the place in truth but poor old Mason for being made CDM or poor Dier who has to learn a new position, poor Lamela who has only had 2years to find his feet and show more than glimpses of potential, yet fuck Dembele because he's not 23 and a headless chicken?
Sorry but he's being singled out because he's frustrating that he could be so much better but, the fact is he is already a better quality of player overall than we have generally.
I think we still need to look a bit at Poch's system and the horrid mis-balance of the squad, his stubbornness was obvious, now he's tinkering out of some desperation. One way or another it's trying to put square pegs into round holes, rectangles at best or, it's a system that is flawed and still not understood by the majority of personnel.....it has to be at least one of those if not a bit of all of them because who can honestly say they see a consistent, pressing, high intensity, attacking style of play that we can all identify with? It's not there, there is possession, patient build up, sometimes a struggle for ideas and a lack of killer instinct.
All being well, even though the slip ups of the past two weeks have been frustrating, hopefully our defending is getting better and will stay that way. We need N'Jie and Son to be quality, give us real impetus in the final third and, we must get quality cover for Kane before 6pm Tuesday. I really want a CDM that is also a decent deep lying playmaker which could step us up but really can't see it happening or who.
