We all know that. I think due to a lack of options he was used as the box-to-box player yesterday.
But he can't be used there, he's crap.
He has to be played as the screener in front of the defence or not at all.
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We all know that. I think due to a lack of options he was used as the box-to-box player yesterday.
But he can't be used there, he's crap.
He has to be played as the screener in front of the defence or not at all.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
Stop saying he cant shoot! He shouldn't be bloody shooting anyway!
It's like saying Jordan Pickford cant hold the ball up.
It's like saying Jordan Pickford cant hold the ball up.
He clearly wasn't fit yesterday and kept trying to win the ball when there was no need. He had a shocker.
We know he can be very good at that defensive job though. Just let him do it, and have a player alongside him to do the rest.
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
That should be his only job - effectively the first wall between the attacker and our back four, hassling and being a nuisance like we know he can be. He then needs someone to take over the ball once he has it and the issue with Schneiderlin is that he just isn't creative (or clever) enough when it comes to turning the play around.
As it stands it's like he's effectively trying to do two jobs and it's, ultimately, to his detriment. He just isn't that flexible of a player all said and done.
I'd have him there solely to break up play, which he's very good at. We desperately need a play maker near him, a midfield general. We look absolutely rudderless as things are.
NorthernBlue
Player Valuation: £35m
He struggles with simple 5 yard passes. Lost count of how many short passes he made where he launched it at someone's head. He needs binning asap.
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
He absolutely should not be the player bringing it into the oppo's half looking for a pass down the middle to the forward. It hardly ever comes off and yesterday it cost us the first goal.
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No matter the role, any midfielder should be able to shoot, come on now.
toffee-L
Player Valuation: £20m
I was hoping this season that we'd play him as the sole defensive midfielder but yesterday looked like a horrible foreshadowing as to what would happen if we did that. They were running off him for fun yesterday, and not just their dangerous attackers but the absolute louts they had in midfield as well.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he was unfit given he did have an injury on international duty but that was a disinterested, garbage performance from him yesterday.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he was unfit given he did have an injury on international duty but that was a disinterested, garbage performance from him yesterday.
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Clearly not 100% fit yesterday - our one man midfield - Bernard look like a midfielder not a winger..........
need to slot him in with him tbh snide has two speeds - sidewards, and backwards.........
need to slot him in with him tbh snide has two speeds - sidewards, and backwards.........
larrygobfiend
Player Valuation: £40m
I die a little bit inside when the ball lands to him in shooting range.
TraffordBlue
Player Valuation: £30m
Why should they?
He is particularly bad at it, so i'd agree he should be better but he is not in the team to get us goals. Or to play 40 yard cross field passes. Or to go go on a 20 yard driving run.
He is a very effective player when he has the right players around him. He should be the main defensive midfielder in this team, selected solely to frustrate opposition players, provide protection to our defence, provide energy and to play simple 5/10/15 yard balls to better technical players who possess far more ability on the ball than him. The likes of Richarlison, Bernard, Walcott, Sigurdsson, Digne, Coleman and Tosun.
Since Barkley and Lukaku left, the onus has been more on him to produce attacking intent and it just isn't in his game. In fact he's poor at providing attacking contributions so the players we brought in to actually provide that should step up and actually contribute in that way.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
He can shoot though, he has scored a handful of goals for us, some nice ones too. It's not a strength of his or anything but it's not like he is totally hopeless either.
With all our attacking options if we are looking at him to provide goals then something is wrong.
The Reverand
Player Valuation: £1m
He’s a professional footballer - he cant kick it at a stationary target?
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