2025/26 Nathan Patterson

McNeil was ok. He was doing his job protecting Patterson and trying to break forward.

Patterson was chopping back instead of overlapping. Gueye a CM goes on an overlap when he went off and we equalise.

Dave, this is NOT "ok":

How’s this man still getting minutes in a Moyes team. Half arsedd



He cost us 2 points tonight.
 
Wasn't actually as much of a defensive liability as he usually is today and made a couple of decent contributions.

Offensively, he's nowhere near good enough. Can't cross and can't beat a man. Drew groans from the crowd at the end of the first half when he passed the ball back to Tarkowski for the umpteenth time instead of trying to progress play but personally I would rather see him do that than lose possession, as he did a whopping 22 times the other week against Sunderland. It was telling that a lot of our better work came down the right flank after he'd gone off.

Filled a gap in the team when we were short of options and he does deserve some credit for that, but now players are coming back I doubt we'll see him starting games.
He hand balled it in our box and only the dozy and appalling refs uselessness prevented a pen being given.
 
Wasn't actually as much of a defensive liability as he usually is today and made a couple of decent contributions.

Offensively, he's nowhere near good enough. Can't cross and can't beat a man. Drew groans from the crowd at the end of the first half when he passed the ball back to Tarkowski for the umpteenth time instead of trying to progress play but personally I would rather see him do that than lose possession, as he did a whopping 22 times the other week against Sunderland. It was telling that a lot of our better work came down the right flank after he'd gone off.

Filled a gap in the team when we were short of options and he does deserve some credit for that, but now players are coming back I doubt we'll see him starting games.

Tbf to Patterson, throughout the entire first half, there were close to no positive runs being made in-front of him. McNeil played with absolutely no width the entire time he was on the pitch.
 
Tbf to Patterson, throughout the entire first half, there were close to no positive runs being made in-front of him. McNeil played with absolutely no width the entire time he was on the pitch.
A modern fullback is supposed to provide the width to an extent though, and even more so a wingback, but when he was wingback nothing changed. Till he went off, then that flank was our more productive area of the pitch.
 

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