Quote Originally Posted by Grebbo View Post
My biggest worry is we're finding it so difficult to control the midfield against half decent opposition. We can't keep the ball for more than 5 minutes and the opposite used to be our strength. Man U away, Everton, City yesterday etc. We need someone like Cesc who'd you'd just give the ball to and he'd keep it. None of our midfielders seem to be able to do that - not even Ozil. Controlling the midfield keeps the pressure off the defence and allows the forwards to make runs. It's the most important thing in football.

Jack might still develop into that player but it's another case of waiting for a player to develop and we all know what that means. As for Jack, he didn't play well yesterday, gave the ball away a lot, but he still should have had two assists if Giroud did better and the handball was given. He almost scored as well. He's missed a lot of football and is still learning the game at this level, in his position you need rhythm and he just hasn't been able to gain any real momentum. I'm not worried at all about him, he's top class when on form.
Top posting.

It was exactly the problem yesterday, with the difference between the Everton and Utd games being that we were never really under much pressure on the ball. We just passed poorly, and didn't move for each other.

I couldn't believe the amount of possession we gifted away. And it started 15 seconds in when Monreal gave it inexplicably to a City player, and that was us under the hammer for 10 minutes.

We went to pieces yesterday.