Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
No favours from Brentford, and odds not looking good for Burnley either.
You weren’t wrong there either.
No favours from Brentford, and odds not looking good for Burnley either.
Our full backs are our most important players. Not necessarily best, but most important. It's a really odd combination of flat back 4 fullbacks and attacking central midfielders, with a really quick transition between the two positions; this is where we get our numerical overloads to set up the intricate little passing lanes.Cerberus is it getting a bit ugly in your corner of NWHL yet? Something seemed desperately wrong with our flanks today, but I don’t really know whether it was our former stand-in CBs at FB, Son and Kulu being off for most of the game, or Angeball having been worked out now by all his peers. Maybe a bit of all three.
early impressions of Glasner are that he will try and have them play a bit more on the front foot which could leave a bit of space for our speed merchants.
Vertonghen but with searing pace. The scouting department came up trumps with him, not exactly unknown but hardly a household name here.Van der Ven is absolutely essential for us. We are completely reliant on his pace every time we lose the ball in midfield from a high line. Such a fantastic buy. MOTM as without him we’d have been a goal or two down at half time.
I've only seen official stats for the top 10 fastest individuals in the league, now topped by MVDV (stats since Opta started collating them about 5 years ago, not just for this season) - I think Johnson was on there from his Forest days, along with the likes of Kyle Walker (obviously), Adama Traore, Pedro Neto and Marcus Rashford.Are there any stats on the fastest team in the league? The posts above mentioned Van der Ven and Johnson, and Werner and Son are very quick too.
MvdV was limping before half time. Dragusin spent the break warming up, VdV came out for the second half to give it 5 mins or so but pulled up again when he had to throw himself into a block (one of those late offside flag casualties I'm afraid).I thought this would happen. My mum came round for lunch so I’ve only just seen the score. Now to find the highlights somewhere.
I see Dragusin came on quite early, who was that for? Cuti and VdV both okay?
We play first this weekend (Saturday 17.30 @ Fulham) compared to Villa (Sunday @ West Ham). 2 comparable games away at decent but not great sides; a win for us would put all the pressure firmly on them.based on the villa/spurs fixtues we should move into 4th over the next month +, the bigger the point lead that opens up now obviously the better. might just manage this now
lolbased on the villa/spurs fixtues we should move into 4th over the next month +, the bigger the point lead that opens up now obviously the better. might just manage this now