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Leaving aside the disappointment of today we are still one of around 7-8 sides who could get relegated as it's very compact this season with no side cut adrift yet. One of the more worrying things regard this weekend is that we saw those teams around us are capable of getting a result against league position and I am not sure we are at present.
I guess my main issue is that when you’re chasing the game, why not try two up top? I don’t have a problem with the lineup, and I don’t really have a problem with the approach - Forest and Southampton took similar approaches yesterday, and sometimes these things workout.
I think that Moyes has become ultra conservative because our attackers have been rubbish this year. But the conservatism means we have fewer chances and it becomes a bit of a vicious cycle as a result.
I'd rather he set the team up to win and accept defeat if it doesn't come off. It can't be any worse can it?
We have so little possession in the final third that when we do get there, we seem clueless, our final ball in is often terrible, and what on earth do we do on the training ground as regards corners.
I fail to understand why ANY professional footballer cannot deliver a decent corner but we have made terrible corner taking an art form, Only once today was there a decent delivery from a corner.
All in all, I concur with many previous comments, we are set up way to conservatively and I have been an advocate for two up for years and I have to think that Scamacca and Ings have the dna to make a decent partnership that should cause anyone problems.
But what do I know
Trouble was that when their defence made an error we were useless trying to make anything of it but they have players who can. Both their goals were preventable especially the second which if Ogbonna had let the ball go and not jumped with Kane then it wouldn’t have been perfectly in his path to slot Son through. Once they were 2 up their fans were all over being top 4 and singing West Ham are going down. Only one of those are likely to be true and it won’t be the first.
What is obvious watching the game live when you can see the whole pitch and not just the TV screen is how useless Antonio is as a footballer. His control is non existent and his anticipation is woeful and it seems he can’t jump or at least time his jumps. In the second half there were a few, not many, but a few attacks where Emerson or Coufal or Benrhama could or needed to cross but there was nobody really in the box to attack it if it went in there. Antonio was just loitering around the edge of the box or on the other side. He used to be a beast but he seems to have lost even that.
What I would say, is he's not a regular goalscorer wherever you play him, so if we're relying on him to score the goals to keep us up it's a problem. It wouldn't matter so much if Bowen and Soucek (for example) we're scoring the way they did last season, but when nobody else has their scoring boots on Antonio isn't reliable enough to the the responsibility.
Not much more to report really.