2020/21 Andre Gomes

[ushuduup]

I think back to the (shudder) "Pickford" Derby (which I had the misfortune of watching from my mum's season ticket seat in the main stand)
In that game he was comfortably the best midfielder on the pitch.
Now the rest of our midfield is at least as good if not better than him. That can only be good for us!

 

[hetion]

Popping my head in briefly to say, just because his flaws weren't so blindingly obvious due to having two energetic midfielders next to him to cover, doesn't mean he actually did anything particularly good.

Should still be jibbed off at the earliest opportunity. Byeeeeee

 

[Deco]

Considering he’s had fitness issues (leaving the Portugal set up early last week), he was steady today.

 

[Flynnthistle]

Popping my head in briefly to say, just because his flaws weren't so blindingly obvious due to having two energetic midfielders next to him to cover, doesn't mean he actually did anything particularly good.

Should still be jibbed off at the earliest opportunity. Byeeeeee

Don't know how you can have that opinion, but you are obviously entitled to it. He was excellent in the first half, spraying balls about with minimum effort. He was instrumental to all that was good. He obviously tired in the second. He's just such a lovely footballer. Links play, moves forward and opens space at the right time. Pressed at the right times as well. We are lucky to have him.

 

[ProZ]

I was impressed with him to be fair and I hope he pushes on and get back to how we know he can play.

 

[The binman chronicles]

He still was dispossessed way too easily a couple times today. I loved his distribution for the most part tho.

No one has a perfect game, Allan got dispossessed/or shrugged off more to the point that led to a big chance for Spurs and he still played really well. Gomes did ok today, not his best but for the limited games and still not long recovered from the leg break he is entitled to that. He is someone else who is tidy and can hold on to the ball and when you have 4/5/6 footballers on a team then we are less likely to be overran by our opponents in a game. I hope to continue to see improvements but Gomes is not the weak link in the team, there are 3 to 4 others that we need to concentrate on first.

 

[carlos NSNO]

looked a completely different player having class players around him today instead of the usual dross he's used to....

 

[Walken]

Very very good today, will benefit maybe more than any other player from having the three new boys in the squad. Makes watching football so good when he's on it

 

[hetion]

Don't know how you can have that opinion, but you are obviously entitled to it. He was excellent in the first half, spraying balls about with minimum effort. He was instrumental to all that was good. He obviously tired in the second. He's just such a lovely footballer. Links play, moves forward and opens space at the right time. Pressed at the right times as well. We are lucky to have him.

That's fair enough and I wish I felt the same way ha! I just feel he's a decent passer but nothing more, and def not good enough to warrant having to cover for him when out of possession. I know I'm hugely in the minority here.

 

[Bullens Rd]

I think he'll benefit massively from no longer being our 'best' or 'only' midfielder. The pressure is off in one sense inasmuch as he doesn't have to feel like it's all on him to carry the midfield, but it's also on him in a different way to perform with those around him to keep his place and that's exactly how it should be.

 

[Bud McBlokeski]

Popping my head in briefly to say, just because his flaws weren't so blindingly obvious due to having two energetic midfielders next to him to cover, doesn't mean he actually did anything particularly good.

Should still be jibbed off at the earliest opportunity. Byeeeeee

Carlo rates him. That's good enough for me.

 

[allen]

He was another of the players who looked calmed by the competence of the new trio. I was worried our midfield vacuum broke him last season, but I thought there were signs he’s on the way back to his best yesterday.

 

[Terrarian]

Watching the highlights and he was fine, very neat and tidy, still playing well within himself but once he gets some confidence and fitness he'll do well.

 

[TimHowardsBeardJuice]

Was surprised to see him so involved in attack because he really hadn’t been. But with Allan and Doucore doing so much defensively he had license to get forward. That’s great because he’s not a DM. That he had to play as one last season was due to lack of any other options. Now he can do what he does best.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Popping my head in briefly to say, just because his flaws weren't so blindingly obvious due to having two energetic midfielders next to him to cover, doesn't mean he actually did anything particularly good.

Should still be jibbed off at the earliest opportunity. Byeeeeee

Just popped my head into this thread briefly to see you'd posted this tripe....You need binning off,More like.