Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
No, before we get to my selective memory, let's go back to your assertion we don't have players that can do anything beyond the bullshit we saw yesterday. Tip-tap, backwards, slow, plod. Martinelli, Nwaneri, Saka, Trossard, these are all plodders? That's why they play with their backs to goal (apart from Nwaneri but he's new so he'll learn)? That's why they lay off the short backwards pass rather than try to advance the ball up the pitch? They aren't high intensity and they aren't technical enough? So who is? Give me an example of one of these high intensity, technical squads.
Yes Martinelli and Saka who are unavailable to us right now. Trossard has zero pace.

Nwaneri? He’s 17 and like with Saka defenders will just double up on him. Generally speaking unless the 17 year old is Pele, the expectation is that a 17 year old won’t carry the team

But yeah you’re right, we were just not dynamic enough. We chose to slow the ball down, had nothing to do with having no space to operate in once we got to the final third