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Originally Posted by Grebbo
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Originally Posted by Grebbo
What I had in my head was basically is their best midfield 3, whomever they may be better than our midfield 3.
Their strikers wipe the floor with ours frankly (I really like Negredo other than the obvious name) but in midfield it's much more close.
Amazing that they have scored 11 more goals than us.
Individually?
Right now Silva is better than Ozil is, although he has had the benefit of having a few seasons of experience in this league.
Yaya Toure is the best box to box mid in the world, you can see why Barcelona were upset about having to let him go for £24m. He's worth much more than that. Overall he's better than Ramsey despite Rambo's freakish run of goals.
Fernandinho I don't particularly rate, he runs around a lot but he always seems to be a bit of a headless chicken. I suppose he's important to them because he acts as a foil to their other players and gives Yaya the freedom to roam, similar to what Flamini does for Ramsey. But I wouldn't have Fernandinho over any of our midfielders.
Collectively I would put us on a par with them in CM.
I think ours is better. Yaya is great when he does get the opportunity to break forward or spray passes, which he is really excellent at but he struggles against teams that have fluid and fast playing midfielders. It's no surprise that the one side he shits on the most out of their rivals is Man Utd and the one he does not is ours.
Even if I am wong and it is worse, our collective midfield is younger.
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Me. :lol:
Such a racist.
Two wong's make a right.
Poldi did live text commentary on his Twitter. :bow:
Anyone else think Montreal should be given a run down the left? Gibbs has been consistant and solid this season but for me Montreal offers more in the final third and looks more comfortable. His crossing and general link up play would add something IMO considering we have n real left sided midfielder.
After recent games I would agree. As an attacking threat Gibbs is very hit & miss but I worry with his positional sense defensively. Whenever a ball is crossed towards our far post he always seems to be too central & doesn't compete well for headers. Had he run & got closer to the Spanish lad yesterday rather than back off & let him shoot, he would have forced him into a tightr angle.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC Leveller