He is not helping, bad passing giving ball away, am I wrong? do we have time to bed these new chaps in?
No, you are not wrong. Like I said before, he definitely doesn't seem to want to make any hard challenges, he gives too much space to attackers and his passing needs brushing up. I hope he can step it up, quickly. Otherwise, play him in midfield and let him run.
Hmm, def wrong. Won the ball on good number of occasions and great at holding it up. Nearly prevented the first goal too.
Taiwo and cisse both need time to adapt to our game having both come from Italy.Unfortunately they dont have a lot of time.
What's the point in signing players who need time to adjust (or get suspended) for next few games. It's the next 4 games that will determine whether we stay up or not.
Bit harsh I think. I thought he played some great passes and is solid on the ball. Will bed in with the team when they've all trained together a few times. He was desperate to take the free kick Taraabt took but looked uncomfortable in asking him. Think he still feels like the new boy and needs some confidence with his team mates
In my opinion, he shows good promise and looks more professional at this level than Traore or Hill. Yes, he is adjusting but I don't think it's taking long as he was already better than in the previous game. As has been mentioned, he holds the ball well and he's actually good at taking the ball forward or going on runs.
He had certainly improved since Villa and, as has been said, needs a little more time. Lets give him it before slating him. A few games down the line, and with his confidence growing, he will improve. Looking forward to a few of his trademark thunderbolts.
Plays to close to the CB maybe just an adjustment to English football but still much improvement from first game.
Are you kidding me? I thought his passing was decent yesterday. He never just Hoofs it when there's little option out there, always seemed to find a pass on the deck which is what we want to see! And made a few decent balls over the top which Cisse and Zamora both nearly got on to. And like Traore, he has a decent cross on him too. However I will agree that he didn't seem to get stuck in so much and will need to use his power to do so asap.
two games in and he is already crap??? jeez lmfao,he looked decent yesterday and in a short time will build a partnership with whoever plays with him.
Saw a fair bit of him in the first half (sitting in R block) and I thought he looked good. His long balls forward seemed measured and considered compared to the likes of Hill. I think he's a good addition to the squad. Would like to see him and Traore overlapping each other down the left flank as both can cross.
Excellent distribution and set up a couple of good changes with incisive passing. But he seems fairly static as a full back and can easily be beaten by pace. Oh, and my Granny has a longer throw-in. If we have to choose then Traore does a better all round job IMO.
Exactly where I'm coming from, compared to Hill he's a huge step up and has plenty of pace to burn. The only down side from yesterdays performance was that he never overlapped once in the entire game which is what he's best at. Also, was I the only one gutted that we didn't get to see Taiwo take the free kick late in the 2nd half? (even though Adel didn't do too bad with it)
You simply can't have been watching the game if you think his passing was bad!! His distribution was top class. I'm not sure about other aspects of his game at the moment, but his passing was superb!!
