2020/21 Allan

Cels · October 25, 2020

Need to get rid of Allan in January. Showed today against Southampton that he's a Championship player at best.

edge · October 25, 2020

Thought we should have put Delph in that midfield instead of siggy ,,we are not mobile enough if one of the other two are having a off day at least he has a bit of pace and can but a foot in, but either of the other two further forward.

UltraVires · October 25, 2020

He was poor against Liverpool but today I think he tried his best but was stretched in trying to cover both wings in the first half.

Neither Iwobi or James tracked back in the way that Richy normally would. As such, Allan had to try and go side to side but couldn’t quite get there most of the time.

We can not afford to play Iwobi on one side it James is on the other in my opinion

Axlswhk · October 25, 2020

Being asked to do too much. Close down from the front and drop back to defend deep. Not possible to accomplish these2 task, even Fernandinho will struggle to meet such requirements.

sageyefc · October 25, 2020

Not easy when you have to carry the dossers playing next to you

Kev50 · October 25, 2020

he was utter rubbish today. I can only pray he is carrying an injury to justify such an anaemic performance

Joe123451978 · October 25, 2020

Is it me or is he a lot slower than expected?

banno · October 25, 2020

He had no chance today...was swarmed by Soton players. Not saying he was good but he was alone most of the time.

Toffeelover · October 25, 2020

Kev50 said:
he was utter rubbish today. I can only pray he is carrying an injury to justify such an anaemic performance

Essentially they were all poor.

Kev50 · October 25, 2020

Toffeelover said:
Essentially they were all poor.

no doubt, but we were overrun. And his position it to be a bulwark against that. And he was just jogging.

Toffeelover · October 25, 2020

Kev50 said:
no doubt, but we were overrun. And his position it to be a bulwark against that. And he was just jogging.

Think one also has to consider what support was about, Godfrey was having a mare, Siggy was a waste of space and no Richie tracking back to help, Gomes should have been in there.

MikeH72 · October 25, 2020

He was as bad as the other two today, let’s not kid ourselves. Don’t think he won a tackle all game.

Drumblue · October 25, 2020

Kev50 said:
he was utter rubbish today. I can only pray he is carrying an injury to justify such an anaemic performance

Wise up lad.

BlueToff · October 25, 2020

Joe123451978 said:
Is it me or is he a lot slower than expected?

He's never been massively quick, but he's quick enough over 5 yards.

His issue is he keeps diving in. It's letting players pop it round him.

He's not a sitter, but he's playing that role. Unfortunately in the last few games it's not quite worked.

He's been brilliant for us so far but perhaps the midfield needs a shake up.

If that means Delph coming in next week, so be it. That can mean Allan can move to one of the more advanced box-to-box roles, and get Gomes in to give Doucoure a rest.

They all looked knackered today.

ForeverBlue92 · October 25, 2020

The problem with the midfield is we still have 1 out of the 3 (Gomes/Gylfi) who offer nothing defensively so when James also doesn't offer anything defensively out wide then one of our only 2 midfielders who can tackle have to cover the Right hand side.

With Richarlison covering Digne and Coleman being on top form we have learnt to cope with that somewhat but having Iwobi and a CB needing to play at RB it was never going to work against a pressing team who play two up top.