No arguments with this. Adams for me looks poor. Plenty of times he
had a second or two to control and look for a pass, but just kicked it
away. He does not seem able to make a decent pass. Runs around a lot
and gets a lot of tackles in without actually winning the ball.
In both games Kristensen has looked suspect to quick / tricky wingers.
He also loses his man too easily. Not much of a threat going forward
either for all his stats and reputation.
Roca is very slow. Looks to make a pass, but has not yet been able to
play a decent ball that could make a difference. He and Adams also have
not been able to shield the defence at all.
Aaronson is the pick of the new guys. He should get better, but I'm not
overly confident that the other three will. All of them seem to be way
off playing at the speed of the PL.
I'm still on the fence re Marsch. His tactics seem to be kick the ball
long and run around a lot, hoping the ball breaks to us in the
opposition half. At times we look like Burnley under Dyche. Also it
would have been simple to set up more defensively after going two up.
He said he tried to do that, but pulling Harrison back has never
worked. He just does not defend well enough, so no surprise that their
second came from his side.
At the moment we are getting goals solely due to the skill of the
players, but as a team we look poor.
I'm still optimistic we'll stay up without to many problems, but Marsch
has to get the team playing much better.
On the plus side Everton and Villa looked shit in the half that I
watched, and I there will be other teams worse than us. Southampton were
useless until we gave them hope, and even then it was more a case of us
losing our composure.
Can't argue with the four points, but Like Rich, I worry about how we'll
cope against better sides.
On 14 Aug 2022 11:51, Richard Walker via Leedslist wrote:
My first look at the new team / players as I was watching the Wolves game on my
phone after landing at the airport and missed a lot of the game.
I thought it was a game of ups and downs for us with our strongest period being
before the drinks break in the 2nd half. After the drinks break we seemed to
stop playing with a few players looking like they were struggling (Roca and
Adams in particular) and Marsch needed his subs on earlier. He has admitted to
this afterwards which is fair. Very disappointing to lose a 2 goal league but
any away point is useful.
Overall, I think we might have played 2 of the teams who will be involved in a
relegation battle with us so 4 out of 6 points aint bad.
For me though, I think the tactics are suspect. I don't think our new recruits
are doing it at the moment and although it's very early days I have grave
concerns about Kristensen and Roca. Roca really struggled 2nd half and he lacks
pace and looks very ordinary to me. Rasmus just looks industrial with no real
guile to his play / defending.
Scores:
Meisler - 6. I thought he could have saved one of the goals
Kristensen - 3. Contributed nothing other than a few panic clearances
Struijk - 5. Doesn't look completely comfortable at left back but the 2nd goal
was his (Rod knicked it) and he got through a lot of work.
Koch - 6. Some good work
Llorente - 6. Likewise but desperate defending at times
Adams - 4. Looks very lightweight to me. For their first goal he just gave up.
Roca - 3. Didn't contribute much after the first 25 mins.
Aaronson - 7. Lively without threatening.
Rodrigo - 7. Poor first half but then came alive.
Bamford - 3. injured again
Harrison - 7. I thought he was our best player throughout.
Subs:
Klich - looked lively again off the bench.
Sinisterra - also lively
Unbeaten in 2 but I think we'll get tonked by any of the top 6 teams. Hope I'm
wrong.
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