Jadon Sancho (loan)

[andyh]

Saw a fair bit of the ball, twisted and turned against a championship standard full back.
Delivered nothing.

[cdbearsfan]

Well, the goal.

[andyh]

Hmmm, watch it again. I think you’ll find the goalie had a big hand in the goal

[brontebilly]

A lot bigger problems tonight, our opposite flank for example. But it was a bit too easy for Maatsen and Sancho at times. That was the time they needed to hammer home their advantage. Sancho seems too content to show off his skills, roll back off left, off right. Has the ball on a string but at times for what. Story of his career really.

[PaulWinch again]

I thought he was ok. He’s barely played so he’s not going to be sharp. You can see the talent is there.

[AV82EC]

Thought he was ok last night but went down a few blind alleys and needed to work on his final ball.

[Dave P]

I thought he was sharp last night.  Faded in the 2nd half as they all did.  Certainly offers more intent going forward.

[PeterWithesShin]

You can see why he was highly rated, you can also see why he's never quite making it.

[Dave P]

You can see why he was highly rated, you can also see why he's never quite making it.

That's spot on.

[andyh]

Whatever happened to those wide players who would pick the ball up in space, run at defenders, beat them and then play a pass or supply a dangerous cross ?

It seems that every wide player now has to collect the ball, tip toe up to a defender, allow the defender time for a couple of his mates to come and cover, and then (with their head down) twist and turn, to knock a ball backwards or to the closest Villa player.

The last player to take a run at full backs was Diaby, but we soon knocked that out of him.

[PeterWithesShin]

The last player to take run at full backs was Diane

Never the same after that away day in France.

[andyh]

The last player to take run at full backs was Diane

Never the same after that away day in France.

Fecking autocorrect

[brontebilly]

Whatever happened to those wide players who would pick the ball up in space, run at defenders, beat them and then play a pass or supply a dangerous cross ?

It seems that every wide player now has to collect the ball, tip toe up to a defender, allow the defender time for a couple of his mates to come and cover, and then (with their head down) twist and turn, to knock a ball backwards or to the closest Villa player.

The last player to take a run at full backs was Diaby, but we soon knocked that out of him.

Wasn't that what Sancho did last night for the goal?   There's a lack of those kind of wingers in the game as it's often a single forward like Watkins up against 2 or 3 centre backs. So whipping in crosses like Wilcox/Ripley used do or Beckham/Giggs made more sense with two forwards in the box. I think that's where the inverted wide players came in and more onus on overlapping full backs.

As it turned out last night, we actually put in plenty of decent crosses. There was a lack of conviction really in attacking those balls. The Torres one the prime example but also Watkins from another good Sancho cross.