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The type of team we just hate playing against - snapping at our ankles, no time to play. Consequently we’re under so much pressure we can’t retain the ball. You don’t win if you don’t take care of the ball….as someone once said.
Jostling for a ball in the penalty area even 5hough it led to a goal isn’t much to shout about. I like Kone, who doesn’t, and I thought he was great against Charlton. I think playing that slightly deeper role behind Burrell didn’t seem to suit him much on this occasion. Getting back to Madsen, I thought his performance reflected the teams overall performance; can and must do better.
Having now watched the full 90 mins v Wrexham I thought Madsen was adequate (and I like Madsen). The game largely passed him by and I don’t think we, as a team, were that good actually. I thought the score line flattered us a bit as it did against Charlton.
Madsen was not the only one though. What did surprise me was that, apart from his terrific shot and goal, Kone did absolutely nothing else at all.
That’s an incredible stat and he’s playing deeper than he’d like as well. People moaned like drains about our midfield last season (rightly so) with its lack of progression and many accepting that playing Field and Varane together was the root cause of most of our problems. Madsen is clearly not the hard tackling, ball winning Championship midfielder many would like but I think his benefit to a more attack minded team this year is clear.
Edit. Varane got 2 assists last season and Field 0. Madsen has 1 assist so far but I think my point still stands
I think they said it was based on minutes played, not games and Kolli hasn’t reached the number of minutes yet to be a first team player. He’s st8ll some way off.
KM referenced this interview he gave after his first goal. He’s a bit more composed in this latest interview (I’m sure we must do some sort of media training for the players) but I have to admit this post Coventry interview was one of my favourite moments from the last year.