How can you argue not having a pre-season is okay? The PL is a different beast to anything else he’ll have played.
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How can you argue not having a pre-season is okay? The PL is a different beast to anything else he’ll have played.
Well it's not ideal, but what can you do? There's an international tournament virtually every year now, if you sign international players for big fees you can't wrap them in cotton wool for 3 months while they catch up. Imagine if we'd signed him for £25m and he'd been sat in the stands while Delph and Gomes were injured and Schneiderlin was suspended, all because he'd 'only' trained for 2 weeks after 3 weeks off. You reckon everyone would have been ok with that yeah? No chance.
What we did was perfectly normal, all teams do it. It's possible that it backfired on us, it's possible that it's a completely unrelated coincidence. Either way, blaming it on poor recruitment or management is just having a go for having a go's sake in my opinion.
Davies was on the bench for the Palace game so could have swapped with Gomes at half time & you can’t foresee a sending off. If he wasn’t up to speed it’s just reckless management.
You can’t see a foresee a sending off but that doesn’t change the fact that it happened does it?! A bizarre line of argument that one.
Disgruntledgoat
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Erm not really?
We start the match with 2 centre mids (Gomes & Schneiderlin) with 2 other centre mids on the bench (Gbamin & Davies)
Why at half time is an undercooked Gbamin chosen over Davies to come on? It’s reckless if he wasn’t up to speed. After Schneiderlin was sent off on like 80 mins Davies is brought on.
Neither is Gomes.
Disgruntledgoat
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And Gomes had already gone off injured then. He sacrificed Sigurdsson's position to keep 2 in centre midfield. Gbamin as the DM and Davies to move the team forward.
Yes? I don’t know if you’re understanding where I’m coming from here.
Disgruntledgoat
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I think I'm confusing myself on the order of the subs/sending off. Will check and see how stupid I look right now...
I think I'm confusing myself on the order of the subs/sending off. Will check and see how stupid I look right now...
Crystal Palace - Everton FC, Aug 10, 2019 - Premier League - Match sheet
This is the match sheet of the Premier League game between Crystal Palace and Everton FC on Aug 10, 2019.
Disgruntledgoat
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Yes, you're right.
He went to the bizarre two defensive midfielders option that has served us so well this season when Gomes went off. Then hooked Gilfi for Davies to keep two in the middle when Schneiderlin got sent off.
Exactly. It’s like if we played 4-4-2 and a striker had to go off. Do you bring on the fresh PL ready one or the newbie that missed our pre-season.
Disgruntledgoat
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In my mind it was the other way around. Probably because that way around it makes sense.
Nope, just Silva being Silva. Going to two defensive mids at half time vs Palace in the opening PL game.
Adventurous stuff.
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