| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? 07:53 - Aug 25 with 1022 views | HammersmithR |
I think whatever level of football you have played at you know if you control and dominate the middle then you’ll win most of your games. It’s been a real issue for the last decade I would say. The last proper midfielders we had where we dominated games was probably under Faurlin and Derry.
I just cannot understand how the recruitment team would have sat down in the summer and believed Field, Varane, Morgan and Madsen was going to provide you the quality and skill set for a 46 game slog of a season.
Field - he’s a good pro, but very one dimensional. Certainly does his best.
Varane - he’s a good player, but often injured.
Morgan - very raw. As we saw on Saturday he still has a lot to learn.
Madsen - the guy will never be a centre midfielder in a million years. Doesn’t have the stamina, physicality or awareness to play in the middle. Can do a job further up the pitch, but we need to cut our losses and say goodbye.
So the moment we get any injuries / suspensions we are so vulnerable in this area of the pitch. One big area I have noticed in the first 4 games of the season is how unfit we look and how lightweight we are. We are bumped off the ball constantly. We are so slow to to the first and second balls. We don’t have anyone in the middle who can control the game with their passing and vision. We don’t have any midfielders who break the lines to get forward. It’s actually rather depressing as a fan as it’s so blindingly obvious. Just don’t understand how Nourry and his recruitment team did not rectify this in the summer for Stephan. You need a balance in the middle, but we are leaving ourselves so open every week in this area of the pitch.
I’ve said it before, but we need a real spine in this side to make us competitive this season. At the moment there isn’t one. The keeper has played barely any professional football before and he’s 24. We’re not settled with a centre back pairing at the moment. Cook looks like age has caught up with him. Morrison seems to be all the place. The midfield is very weak and then the striker situation is changing every game. So there you go, no spine to a side who are struggling confidence wise and sadly from what I have seen so far are just not good enough for the Championship. We are obviously giving our players long contracts which on the flip side can work against us as if they’re not good enough we will struggle to get rid of them. This is clearly the issue with Madsen and dare I say quite a few others. Sad times. Let’s hope we can address the left back, centre back and midfield issue in the last few days of the window. |  | | |  |
| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? on 08:33 - Aug 25 with 906 views | Petros |
This may be a fever dream, but when we had our very good run last season, wasn’t the midfield mostly Varane, Field, Morgan? I seem to remember them playing fluidly, with energy and purpose. Am I imagining this? What on earth happened? | | | |
| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? on 08:59 - Aug 25 with 830 views | Third_Division_South |
So we are paying £2.8M for Saito while Millwall are rumoured to be in talks with Alan Browne. Priorities?? | | | |
| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? on 09:09 - Aug 25 with 771 views | JimmyR |
| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? on 08:59 - Aug 25 by Third_Division_South |
So we are paying £2.8M for Saito while Millwall are rumoured to be in talks with Alan Browne. Priorities?? |
If that’s really happening? it would be as mad as starting with Walsh again next week
You don’t need to watch for that long, or know anything about football to see that we need some bigger boys
*walsh & Saito to start next week it is then | | | |
| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? on 12:15 - Aug 25 with 587 views | daveB |
part of the problem is the style of play doesn't suit any of the midfielders we have and when they do get the ball into the wingers they are pretty hopeless with their backs to goal so give it away almost instantly |  | | |
| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? on 12:23 - Aug 25 with 536 views | kensalriser |
| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? on 12:15 - Aug 25 by daveB |
part of the problem is the style of play doesn't suit any of the midfielders we have and when they do get the ball into the wingers they are pretty hopeless with their backs to goal so give it away almost instantly |
Repeatedly trying to thread the ball through the eye of a needle on the half way touchline has been pissing me off for a while, especially when two swift passes could switch the ball in to acres of space on the other side. |  |
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| Midfield our biggest issue - players wise? on 13:12 - Aug 25 with 388 views | NorthantsHoop |
Hayden in, right decision, would also give Vale a chance in midfield. |  | | |
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