lessons learnt vs BLING

Daniel for Covs at the half, play him at the pointy end.

Kwasnik against Sydney

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV3o1D3GrlQ

I rate Daniel as a creative force but he doesn't have the pace to play as a winger in a 4-4-2.

 Obviously mossy never saw the same game, or was it because kawsi changed flanks

He may lack pace but he's been out for awhile and it might be game fitness that he's lacking.
It'll be interesting to see if his work-rate picks up if he starts on Monday.

I thought the yellow card was fair; although wrong, the offside was called early and it this level he should know better than to play on after the whistle, fun that it might be.
 
 

Good things- he often has a great first touch, has a few tricks, but also makes passes and gets into space to receive them. Highlight perhaps the point where he looked for the long ball- it wasn't on so he didn't just hoof it, but passed square and kept possesion.

Decent alround player, much better suited to the left wing position, which leaves us still needing a decent striker up front, unless Coveny can find his striking boots.

Didn't think his pace was apalling or anything, he didn't seem to get burnt off too much, and had good anticipation.

Jets will be tougher opposition at home you would think.

Nice goal that wasn't allowed. He was onside for sure.

we are not clever enough out of possession to play a diamond midfield hence 4-4-2 with a flat 4 midfield works for us because it is so f**king simple to organise and everyone knows their roles, just the same way that 4-2-3-1 or any basically any other formation leaves to many gray areas and we are not able to effectively close down and stifle opposition attacks, leave that be if anything give ferrante a run with brown as two cms, obviously brown will hold a little more and ferrante will get forward a little more almost like a 60/40 split, any talk of herafield, gao or daniel playing in the middle of the park is just rubbish, they cannot defend, they have a low work rate out of possession and they regularly lose possession, if they were to give up the same amoutn of possession in central areas as they do in wide areas when playing wide we would get murdered!

Best thing about the video is watching Smeltz beat a few bling players

where would you play kwasnik if not on the left? i think most would agree he has been rubbish up front or in the hole, he has looked best on the left and i believe probably our best option on the left unless you go for gao and bertos as the wide men in a 4-4-2

He was carded.

I'm gonna cry if Siggy doesn't start on Monday.

That won't help your exam (as if walking in dressed as Grover will).

You do realise that Covs is the second fastest player in the squad?

People seem to have this fixation that because covs is getting on in his years he's slow. He's not, but perhaps doesn't have the Stamina he used to.

Good call that man

anyone notice Dodd jump on Brownie when he scored and proceed to spoon him?

Yes. A great moment of man love.

It's certainly hard to believe, even over a metre. Lochhead, Gao, Bertos, Costa would all be clearly  faster from what I can tell, with the majority of the rest of the squad in the "probably faster than Coveny" category.

Source?

Are you sure it wasn't the second slowest in the squad, behind Mulligan?

everyone on this site seems obessed with speed, like that is the most important attribute a player can have.  According to most here, we would be better off replacing Smeltz with Linford Christie.

I'm more interested in pace, TBH.

Pace has to accompany a sharp footballing mind, so that the player's pace is used appropriately, to make the right run to the right place at the right time.

Half the time, Coveny has needed to use every fast-twitch fiber he has to chase hopeless long balls.

Not exactly an achievement in our squad. We don't exactly have any Walcott's runnin around.

That was Coveny's best game for us. I only realised that when I watched it again - he got through a ton of work, won a lot in the air and harried the Bling defence (with his pace...) so much that a couple of times he panicked them into errors.

motherflipper

Sheringham should never have played football my granny was quicker than him and that was when he was at his peak.

But hold on wasn't he one of the best strikers in England and played up until he was forty. Speed of thought, ability to read the game and a good first touch, but as slow as a cart horse. Thank god Mossy wasn't a talent scout Sheringham would never have graced White Hart lane and praise the lord football is not a one dimensional game.

Before the season I remember in some interview two players were asked who was the fastest in the team and they said Gao or Coveny.