05-03-2021, 00:21
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2021, 00:24 by Slick_Footwork.)
We played alright, got more bodies in the box and carried a threat throughout...
I did always think we would score, unfortunately we didn't have the quality to put them under sustained pressure.
But I think the cold, harsh reality is we still have too many championship players in the team. In Furlong and Phillips you have two players who didn't particularly excel last year and they are starting. Dara and Townsend who did well last year, but were only bit part players. Then there's Pereira who IMO doesn't look up to the pace of the game in this division. I just feel he's a bit overweight and in the Premier League, you can't afford to carry even 3 or 4lbs more than you should. Plus he's got the effort rate of a shoe box.
The reality is our summer business has left us dead and buried. I find it astonishing that Furlong in particular has become a Premier League regular. Just goes to show that you can make a living off this game purely from being athletic as the lad has no technical ability whatsoever. To have 2 windows, use all your loans and still have him starting shows how desperately short of quality we were and still are.
And with so many passengers, we can play well and still not quite do enough.
I think Johnstone should've been dealing with their goal as that cross is deep in his 6 yard box. But I sympathise with him because it did look like Yokuslu was going to head it out. It's hard to be critical of these 2 two though, particularly Yokuslu who has been an absolute breath of fresh air knocking players off the ball, tackling, playing progressive forward passes rather than tippy tappy possession for possession sake stuff.
As for our offside goal, what I found strange was that VAR looked at it for a second and there only appeared to be one line on the playback. Every other VAR offside I've seen given has had 2 lines. It did look like he was off to the naked eye, but it was very tight, so I'm not sure how VAR managed to look at it so fast and make the decision without a secondary line. Still, "it's only West Brom" so I doubt that decision will ever be looked at thoroughly to see if it was correct.
I did always think we would score, unfortunately we didn't have the quality to put them under sustained pressure.
But I think the cold, harsh reality is we still have too many championship players in the team. In Furlong and Phillips you have two players who didn't particularly excel last year and they are starting. Dara and Townsend who did well last year, but were only bit part players. Then there's Pereira who IMO doesn't look up to the pace of the game in this division. I just feel he's a bit overweight and in the Premier League, you can't afford to carry even 3 or 4lbs more than you should. Plus he's got the effort rate of a shoe box.
The reality is our summer business has left us dead and buried. I find it astonishing that Furlong in particular has become a Premier League regular. Just goes to show that you can make a living off this game purely from being athletic as the lad has no technical ability whatsoever. To have 2 windows, use all your loans and still have him starting shows how desperately short of quality we were and still are.
And with so many passengers, we can play well and still not quite do enough.
I think Johnstone should've been dealing with their goal as that cross is deep in his 6 yard box. But I sympathise with him because it did look like Yokuslu was going to head it out. It's hard to be critical of these 2 two though, particularly Yokuslu who has been an absolute breath of fresh air knocking players off the ball, tackling, playing progressive forward passes rather than tippy tappy possession for possession sake stuff.
As for our offside goal, what I found strange was that VAR looked at it for a second and there only appeared to be one line on the playback. Every other VAR offside I've seen given has had 2 lines. It did look like he was off to the naked eye, but it was very tight, so I'm not sure how VAR managed to look at it so fast and make the decision without a secondary line. Still, "it's only West Brom" so I doubt that decision will ever be looked at thoroughly to see if it was correct.