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Date Posted: Sunday, January 05, 07:31:02pm
Author: Henry1879
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Subject: Couple of things - not particularly original

First, silva gets all manner of plaudits, rightly so, but he and his staff should also be criticised when it’s right to do so. Tactically, as most have said below, why do we keep playing with 3 CBs, feels like he just doesn’t want to drop one or Anderson/diop. I’m firmly in the diop camp now, Anderson looks slow and vulnerable, diop in a back 4 with Cuenca/bassey is what I’d play. We are nullifying Robinson, he’s best coming from deep, with iwobi dragging the full back inside and Robbo running off the back of attackers, not starting high and facing the full back like a winger. It kept ending up with having 3 CBS v delap and diop left with the ball, just go back to basics and what we know works.

My weekly moan about corners/free kicks, it’s just so poor, do we work on them at all? It looks like we have no plan. Watch a good set piece team and you see creativity, blocking, surrounding the keeper, intrigue as to what’s coming next, we just chuck it in and hope someone gets on the end of it. I don’t care if we don’t have a set piece coach, we were great at them 2 seasons ago, when don’t think we had one, just work on it, our current coaches are good enough. Tight games against defensive teams we’ll get loads of corners, nick a goal early and whole dynamic changes, but we are so toothless from them we eradicate that way of winning. Forest don’t often blow teams away, but they can keep it tight and pinch a set piece goal, no reason we can’t win that way at times.

Positively, how brilliant was Raul, energy, desire, never shies away, as long as he is like this he is a top half prem CF, decent goal output and brilliant link play, as silva says CF isn’t priority. It’s so easy to say buy a CF when we have 1 blank, but he’s not the problem generally. Also thought Wilson was other one who was really at it. I wrote about how our squad is athletic and built for end to end football, but the consequence of that is our struggle against deep defending types, might just be you can’t have it all, but we make our life far easier with 8-10 corner goals a season.

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One thing Silva got right today was finally playing both strikers together. When I saw Muniz standing in the touchline I was dreading Jimenez's number coming up like every other week so far. Thank goodness he stayed on the pitch for those penalties and as you say he was superb all round. Agree also with your points about the shape nullifying Robinson. When Berge is back we should revert to two centre halves and yes, Diop and Bassey for me too. (NT) -- JamieR, Sunday, January 05, 07:44:28pm (82-132-212-102.dab.02.net/82.132.212.102)
Forgot to add - Silva’s meltdowns with refs can’t help us, yes he wants to win, but we became almost a mirror of him, he was losing his head and we lost ours just after our 1sr goal, too much emotion. He, therefore we, can become obsessed with the ref, when we’d be better served expending that energy on ourselves. Injustices will happen, it’s how we react that will determine us, getting embroiled in a single decision won’t help us win, think we can keep a cooler head at times. (NT) -- Henry1879, Sunday, January 05, 08:11:35pm (croy-26-b2-v4wan-167127-cust1611.vm24.cable.virginm.net/82.38.22.76)
Re: Couple of things - not particularly original (NT) -- What about uncle Willy to the EOS 👍, Sunday, January 05, 08:22:16pm (host-217-8-22-33.as13285.net/217.8.22.33)
Agree with this. Also we need to stop starting Cairney. TC has been a Fulham legend but has never ripped up trees as a starter in the Premier League. And that's not going to change at 33. Slow, ponderous on the ball, predictable and hopeless at chasing lost possession. He's great as a sub with 20-30 to go, but without Berge it should have been Leno - Castagne - Diop - Bassey - Robinson; Lukic, Pereira: Wilson, Smith-Rowe, Iwobi; Jimenez (NT) -- Magic Matt, Sunday, January 05, 09:00:18pm (97e211ab.skybroadband.com/151.226.17.171)
add throw ins to corners and free kicks (NT) -- too pedestrian, Sunday, January 05, 11:06:14pm (host86-153-178-227.range86-153.btcentralplus.com/86.153.178.227)

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