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Adding more pace to our team !!!?
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 Royston-Herts-Eagle  Royston 27 Jan 17 6.13pm |
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With the addition of Jeffery Schlupp and potentially PVA + Zaha back from ACN.....it will give us much needed pace to penetrate teams !!!? Lets now see if we get in a RBK, CDM and a FWD before Tuesday!!!?
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| bexleydave Barnehurst 27 Jan 17 6.40pm |
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Originally posted by Royston-Herts-Eagle
With the addition of Jeffery Schlupp and potentially PVA + Zaha back from ACN.....it will give us much needed pace to penetrate teams !!!? Lets now see if we get in a RBK, CDM and a FWD before Tuesday!!!? I'm not convinced PVA's medical will be finished by then.
Bexley Dave Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing! "The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum) |
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Crystal_Clear  Belfast 27 Jan 17 6.43pm |
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I never thought that Zaha was particularly quick.
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| slubglurge welling 27 Jan 17 6.52pm |
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We need pace at CB too
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| Royston-Herts-Eagle Royston 27 Jan 17 7.05pm |
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As a season ticket holder....I just think we are a bit slow on either flanks. I really like the system Chelsea play with 3 at the back....and Alonso/Moses as wing backs I know we would not have their quality....however I would have thought it would be effective with 10+ teams around us !!!? Zaha is quick....not rapid, but quick !!!
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chateauferret  27 Jan 17 7.20pm |
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I think we need more mobility in the midfield. Too much standing like statues. Better when McArthur is there but Puncheon drives me mad with constantly turning backwards and Ledley is looking a bit static these days. Teams are bypassing our midfield too easily and we're not getting the ball out from the back four except by means of the old fashioned blooter up vaguely towards Benteke. Oh, and they're usually sitting too deep, too. Maybe this is just a mindset thing.
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| Mad4palace 27 Jan 17 7.29pm |
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We need to get more energy in the midfield now. Look at the ages of our current options: Cabaye - 31 Whilst I wouldn't call them 'old', I think all apart from Puncheon seem to pick up injuries, knocks that force them to play a bit beneath themselves at times, they obviously don't heal as quick as they did when they were 25. We've seen Cabaye and McArthur brought off repeatedly at inopportune times late in the game. I thought against Everton that youngster Davies really got the better of McArthur in the types of battles he used to win. I don't think McArthur's ever fully recovered from that injury he suffered this time last year, he's no longer an 8/10 in every game, nowadays he might have a few 6's sandwiched in between 2 8/10's and then be injured for the next game. Cabaye, Flamini and Ledley are now becoming laughably slow and Cabaye and Ledley don't have the position awareness to make up for their lack of pace like Flamini or Jedinak used to.
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| Royston-Herts-Eagle Royston 27 Jan 17 7.31pm |
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Agree....I saw small shoots at Everton game where we're starting to show some solidity, fight, desire and energy....just need some pace and even better - end product in the opposing goal !!!?
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| Noz North Hampshire 27 Jan 17 7.33pm |
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Originally posted by bexleydave
I'm not convinced PVA's medical will be finished by then. I am interested to know what you know about this medical, that the rest of the footballing world does not?
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| cpfc1976 Reading 27 Jan 17 9.10pm |
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Originally posted by bexleydave
I'm not convinced PVA's medical will be finished by then. Ha ha :-)
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| Rachid Rachid Rachid 27 Jan 17 9.41pm |
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Originally posted by Mad4palace
We need to get more energy in the midfield now. Look at the ages of our current options: Cabaye - 31 Whilst I wouldn't call them 'old', I think all apart from Puncheon seem to pick up injuries, knocks that force them to play a bit beneath themselves at times, they obviously don't heal as quick as they did when they were 25. We've seen Cabaye and McArthur brought off repeatedly at inopportune times late in the game. I thought against Everton that youngster Davies really got the better of McArthur in the types of battles he used to win. I don't think McArthur's ever fully recovered from that injury he suffered this time last year, he's no longer an 8/10 in every game, nowadays he might have a few 6's sandwiched in between 2 8/10's and then be injured for the next game. Cabaye, Flamini and Ledley are now becoming laughably slow and Cabaye and Ledley don't have the position awareness to make up for their lack of pace like Flamini or Jedinak used to. Great point and has been glaring for months IMO. Puncheon's strengths have been finding himself half a yard, carrying the ball and getting a quality pass or shot off. Now he's hit 30 and lost a bit of zip he can't affect the game in the same way. MacArthur needs to play deeper than last week and should be the first choice midfield player.
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| Royston-Herts-Eagle Royston 27 Jan 17 10.13pm |
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let's see what (if anything) the run up to Tuesday brings!!?
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