I thought swapping Bamford for Eddie showed a real problem yesterday; the team isn’t set up to play how Eddie needs us to play with him as centre forward. There was a huge gap between him and the others, the ball didn’t stick when we got it moved up there hence it fell back on midfield and we were overrun (or as much as we are ever overrun these days). Plus, his one major break he should have had enough awareness to square the ball across the box where Alioski or Harrison was unmarked, rather than shooting from a long way out and an improbable angle. Eddie may work alongside Bamford, or when we are chucking everything at the last 10 minutes, but if he is to be lone striker for prolonged periods we need to change how the rest are set up.
Bamford for his part, played well enough, missed a decent chance, missed another when offside (apparently) and laid a sweet one back into the path of Costa who should have scored. I think in the end Bielsa wants Bamford at the top, with Roberts in the number 10 behind him, linking midfield and Eddie as an impact sub. Thought Costa was again ineffective yesterday, Clarke must be seriously tossing it off in training...and Harrison was Harrison, good runs, good energy, naff all end product. That said, he was sharp to nick the ball for the goal. Dallas isn’t a midfielder and Alioski isn’t much more of a midfielder. Douglas doesn’t seem to be much of anything. White was excellent, and Berardi was steady. Phillips or White was probably our MOTM, although Kiko did the things he needed to do, without much fuss. Still, second eh? Nick Sent from my iPad > On 19 Oct 2019, at 18:29, Simon McNally <simon_mcna...@sky.com> wrote: > > Thought we were poor overall today. > Bamford missed a good chance first half and the keeper made a good save to > deny Dallas. > Second half with Eddie on we didn’t create much at all. He missed a harder > chance than Bamford’s and the goal came from Harrison dispossessing their > defender and Kalvin’s finish seemed to go through the keeper. > Costa wasn’t great, White was excellent and I thought Dallas played well. > Harrison still can’t cross and I was surprised when he took Klich off for > Roberts- we seemed to get overrun in midfield after that. > Berardi did ok. I think he was helped by playing in a 3 with White and Ayling > and made some good passes in the first half. Some poor ones late on but he > wasn’t on his own in that. > > S > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 19 Oct 2019, at 17:04, Richard Naef <rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk> >> wrote: >> >> Abroad in the back of beyond, so v poor audio. >> >> Great win, were we any better with Eddie on and how did Berra do? >> >> Sent from my Mobile. >> _______________________________________________ >> Leedslist mailing list >> Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist >> To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org >> >> Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ >> >> RIP Jimmy WAC-COE > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > RIP Jimmy WAC-COE _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ RIP Jimmy WAC-COE
