10-08-2019, 19:29
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2019, 19:32 by Slick_Footwork.)
(10-08-2019, 19:00)BaggieMan Wrote: Slick, take it you’re not too keen on the Bilic fellah ?
I was hopeful when Bilic took charge. A big name with a likeable personality and experience.
But I can only judge what is in front of me and the performance and management today was shocking.
It's not often I say this when it's a Baggies game, but I struggled to sit through the full 90 minutes today as it was so dour. Pedestrian, side to side, no penetration, no idea.
We were waxing lyrical about the window on Thursday and yet none of the new players are included? I get the foreign lads, but not the British based players. Last weekend I watched Diangana play in pre-season for West Ham and he was one of the best players on the pitch. Yet our bench contains the likes of Conor Townsend. It's mind boggling.
There was no link up at all between Zohore, Krovinovic, Edwards and Phillips. The players have been together all pre season, but they looked like they had never played together.
What are these guys being coached?
HRK was poor when he came on, but at least actually controls the ball and passes it. Zohore is like an invisible man up there. Bilic knew this after last week, yet still decides Austin isn't worth a shout for the bench.
Last week I said we were just missing a striker, but today there was a lot more at fault than that.
At half time it was 0-0 and we often had 6 players goalside of Millwall's most advanced player with the entire back 4 and the 2 sitting midfielders.
It was obvious we needed the full backs higher and one of the central midfielders getting beyond the ball but Bilic didn't change a thing at half time. The only reason we scored was because we managed to score was because of a set-play and some of the worst goalkeeping you could see.