Yankee_Jack
Key Player
A mixed bag of a game.
We started a B XI. Let's not forget that. You could argue the same about them but their B XI is expected to support player swaps between domestic and european competitions.
Having said that there are a few players I was disappointed with: Dhanda, Morris, Guehi. Dhanda was largely out of his dept. Morris was pretty much a non-entity past his first few sprints (please dear god, don't let Ayew get injured ... Ayew would have to play 5 games on the same day to look that knackered after 20 minutes). Guehi did some nice stuff but seemed to be a tad reserved and not comfortable playing with Manning outside him.
Lati is ok for Championship but not ready for EPL; he tried.
On the plus side .... Whitakker ... came on and took his goal well. A Cullenesque finish. I could see him starting soon enough. Ayew and Whitt could be a good combination.
Depth ... perhaps overly harsh to criticize ... but I expected more vim and vigor from our B players. You can't control talent and technical ability, but vim and vigor is entirely down to the player.
Forget about this now ... let's get promoted
We started a B XI. Let's not forget that. You could argue the same about them but their B XI is expected to support player swaps between domestic and european competitions.
Having said that there are a few players I was disappointed with: Dhanda, Morris, Guehi. Dhanda was largely out of his dept. Morris was pretty much a non-entity past his first few sprints (please dear god, don't let Ayew get injured ... Ayew would have to play 5 games on the same day to look that knackered after 20 minutes). Guehi did some nice stuff but seemed to be a tad reserved and not comfortable playing with Manning outside him.
Lati is ok for Championship but not ready for EPL; he tried.
On the plus side .... Whitakker ... came on and took his goal well. A Cullenesque finish. I could see him starting soon enough. Ayew and Whitt could be a good combination.
Depth ... perhaps overly harsh to criticize ... but I expected more vim and vigor from our B players. You can't control talent and technical ability, but vim and vigor is entirely down to the player.
Forget about this now ... let's get promoted