I think he's only playing because Lanzini has been out. The minute Lanzini, Fornals and Bowen are available at the same time, I think he'll be back on the bench.
As predicted. Moyes may be resting Benrahma, but I think dropped is probably more accurate. We'll find out on Thursday I guess.
I think Benrahma has the ability/potential to be a very decent player if he can get his head up and improve his decision making. He puts in a good shift and helps out in defence but playing wide on the left doesn't seem like his best position to me.
I think he's only playing because Lanzini has been out. The minute Lanzini, Fornals and Bowen are available at the same time, I think he'll be back on the bench.
As predicted. Moyes may be resting Benrahma, but I think dropped is probably more accurate. We'll find out on Thursday I guess.
Good to see Coufal back.
Benrahma was poor on Thursday. Everything he tried went wrong.
At least twice there was a simple pass to find Cresswell on an overlap that he messed up. His crosses didn't beat the first man. A couple of times he dribbled into trouble and lost it.
Bowen wasn't doing much on Thursday but if we get one chance, you want it to fall to Bowen. Fornals was finding good passes (two or three times out to Benrahma, who then lost it).
There have been times where Moyes has taken Benrahma off when he was no worse than others, but Thursday wasn't one of those occasions IMO.
So, Dawson was injured early and hasn't looked quite right since, now Zouma is off with a twisted ankle (following a scissor kick tackle that wasn't even deemed worthy of a yellow); Diop on.
Not a good half from us. But the fact it’s 0-0 means we’ve got a good chance of taking something from the second half. I’d probably want Benrahma on for the second half.
Al of the midfield five have been off the boil today.
Comments
5 Coufal
15 Dawson
4 Zouma
3 Cresswell
28 Soucek
41 Rice
20 Bowen
10 Lanzini
8 Fornals
9 Antonio
Substitutes
7 Yarmolenko
11 Vlasic
13 Areola
22 Benrahma
23 Diop
24 Fredericks
26 Masuaku
31 Johnson
33 Král
Best 11 on pitch
Good to see Coufal back.
Benrahma is almost always subbed off or benched. If his performances are genuinely that bad each week, does he have a future at the club?
Mathias Jorgensen aka Zanka plays instead, first start since 30 October and first appearance since 6 November
At least twice there was a simple pass to find Cresswell on an overlap that he messed up. His crosses didn't beat the first man. A couple of times he dribbled into trouble and lost it.
Bowen wasn't doing much on Thursday but if we get one chance, you want it to fall to Bowen. Fornals was finding good passes (two or three times out to Benrahma, who then lost it).
There have been times where Moyes has taken Benrahma off when he was no worse than others, but Thursday wasn't one of those occasions IMO.
Let’s hope he’s reading too much into that…
Also why "Hey Jude"?
Here we go
We are off the pace
Al of the midfield five have been off the boil today.