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WPM 2021/22 Squad Speculation, Confirmation and Mutual Termination

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Posted May 08, 2021 04:31 · last edited May 08, 2021 04:33

martinb
TreeFiddy
Controversial opinion, but I wouldn't keep DaVila. 

Please explain yourself. I checked and you are not the forum contrarians so why? He’s who our side is built around. 
Of our imports Taylor and Davila would be our main guys. Hemed hasn’t influenced games enough for me- we need a striker who can do a bit more with the ball or can make things happen. 
Ball I don’t know- he has a bit of the invisible man about him- in a Tom Brown, Reuben Thorne good way- and I think a striker should link with him and Davila better. He was really influential with Hooper there and he passes more often than Piscopo. However, both he and Piscopo haven’t scored enough goals this season for their talent IMO.
Davila is the engine room of the team. We’d have to replace him with three players!
Ball hasn't had as much influence going forward from about the time the Nix really tightened up in defense, when he's been playing on the left with Sutton you notice he's always back in our defensive third, assisting as a second defender out wide on the left. Personally I think it was one of the reasons why Sutton looked so sound defensively in his first few games, as Ball was always there to back him up.

This is seem on the heatmaps for last night vs the last few games where Ball was much further advanced, and it showed with Sutton getting badly exposed on numerous occassions before being hooked. Tough night for the young fella.

I also see a lot more in Hemed than most others here. His link up play in the second half particular was very good, and he is almost always in a good position, in space or making an intelligent run that is very rarely picked out by our number 10's. You can see the frustration. Particularly when you have Davila and Piscopo cutting in from the right, looking left, the entire right side of the field and Hemed or other players making runs into the vacated space seem to be a massive blind spot. Payne had the same issue last night in space on the right and the commentators actually mentioned it.

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martinb
TreeFiddy
Controversial opinion, but I wouldn't keep DaVila. 

Please explain yourself. I checked and you are not the forum contrarians so why? He’s who our side is built around. 
Of our imports Taylor and Davila would be our main guys. Hemed hasn’t influenced games enough for me- we need a striker who can do a bit more with the ball or can make things happen. 
Ball I don’t know- he has a bit of the invisible man about him- in a Tom Brown, Reuben Thorne good way- and I think a striker should link with him and Davila better. He was really influential with Hooper there and he passes more often than Piscopo. However, both he and Piscopo haven’t scored enough goals this season for their talent IMO.
Davila is the engine room of the team. We’d have to replace him with three players!
Ball hasn't had as much influence going forward from about the time the Nix really tightened up in defense, when he's been playing on the left with Sutton you notice he's always back in our defensive third, assisting as a second defender. Personally I think it was one of the reasons why Sutton looked so sound defensively in his first few games, as Ball was always there to back him up.

This is seemn on the heatmaps for last night vs the last few games where Ball was much further advanced, and it showed with Sutton getting badly exposed on numerous occassions before being hooked. Tough night for the young fella.

I also see a lot more in Hemed than most others here. His link up play in the second half particular was very good, and he is almost always in a good position, in space or making an intelligent run that is very rarely picked out by our number 10's. You can see the frustration. Particularly when you have Davila and Piscopo cutting in from the right, looking left, the entire right side of the field and Hemed or other players making runs into the vacated space seem to be a massive blind spot. Payne had the same issue last night in space on the right and the commentators actually mentioned it.