Tammy Abraham

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Has to start now. Watkins is cooked.

[dorsetvillian]

Poor Tammy must wonder what the fuck is going on.  At the moment it seems a wasted signing. I just don't understand what Unai is thinking...

[TheToffnar]

Getting really silly now. I get it Unai, Watkins offers more then just goals and you value loyalty, but it's not working. Doesn't matter how much he stretches the defense or works the space, we're not winning football matches whilst you pray he comes good.

[Demitri_C]

Poor Tammy must wonder what the fuck is going on.  At the moment it seems a wasted signing. I just don't understand what Unai is thinking...

Getting the malen treatment. Just dont get it

[The Edge]

Getting really silly now. I get it Unai, Watkins offers more then just goals and you value loyalty, but it's not working. Doesn't matter how much he stretches the defense or works the space, we're not winning football matches whilst you pray he comes good.

There's loyalty and there's blind loyalty. Even Ollie himself must be wondering how he's getting a start when he is missing so many good chances. Would a spell on the bench actually help Ollie at this point? I think it might. Bringing him on as an impact sub when defenders are starting to tire could be a good move and possibly resurrect his flagging season. Unai's running out of time to find out.

[LeeB]

Getting really silly now. I get it Unai, Watkins offers more then just goals and you value loyalty, but it's not working. Doesn't matter how much he stretches the defense or works the space, we're not winning football matches whilst you pray he comes good.

There's loyalty and there's blind loyalty. Even Ollie himself must be wondering how he's getting a start when he is missing so many good chances. Would a spell on the bench actually help Ollie at this point? I think it might. Bringing him on as an impact sub when defenders are starting to tire could be a good move and possibly resurrect his flagging season. Unai's running out of time to find out.

The one time he did it this season Ollie came off the bench and scored twice.

I'm loathe to criticise Emery but it seems his unrelenting faith in Watkins is testing me, and I don't think it's doing Ollie any favours either.

[olaftab]

But I think last night attacking options were correct with what we have available. Ollie could have netted 2 of his 3 chances. So from that angle Unai was correct in starting with ollie.

[aj2k77]

Ollie can't finish his breakfast. There's no point playing him for his ability to get in the right position if his finishing is Blues as usual.

[SamTheMouse]

I imagine he went with Ollie because he destroyed Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

[brontebilly]

I imagine he went with Ollie because he destroyed Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Thought his movement and hold up play were miles better than last night. Granted Chelsea are very soft defensively especially on the counter. But Ollie did really test. But he didn't half butcher than chance to make it 2-3, any hope went out the window then.

[TheToffnar]

We're in that aggressive cycle with him all over again now. He looked sharper then he has in weeks last night, but because he was marginally offside fir his goal and we got battered, it's a total reset on his confidence.

Not saying he didn't have his fair share of other chances, the one to make it 2-3 was criminal, but if he get's a goal it's at least something we can use to build on.

[Duncan Shaw]

We had a grest view of Ollie's chance for 2-3 in L6 and it played out in slow motion in front of our very eyes, like a car crash.  I still don't know how he managed not to score there.

[colin69]

Tammy has to have a run in the team now surely?
He may not turn out to be the long term solution but Ollie is just awful at the moment.

[tony scott]

I don’t think Tammy’s the solution but neither is Ollie, maybe we should just try to play without strikers, teams have done it before, this may seem radical.  If you refuse to play Tammy from the start you have to try something different.