Makes you wonder what one frame difference might make to an offside decision. Thinking of that Coventry goal. Or one that went our way at the end of last season against Southampton.
I get where you’re coming from. The trouble is if you never put Baleba/Barco in these positions then how will they ever learn?
You would hope that this is all part of their next day analysis. I would genuinely love to hear how RDZ envisioned that passage of play panning out. Shame journalists...
We might like one but I don’t think we will.
If Welbeck is staying and Ferguson is expected to be fit and firing, we’ll have those two + Pedro.
It’ll be lower down the priority list than at least 3 other positions I’d say.
Yep. You can see from that still that Baleba has already decided to pass to Barco, which isn’t necessarily an awful move but it’s very clearly channelled - the City players know exactly what’s coming.
If he instead feigns that pass and lets the ball roll, he buys himself time and opens up other...
Or a scanning issue. The elite players in that role are constantly scanning where the space is, where opponents are and where teammates are.
Baleba’s physicality should have either enabled him to let the ball roll across him whilst guarding Foden off, or take a touch to move it away from him...
I think this is close to correct.
I don’t think we’ll sign a striker, and I’m leaning more towards the idea of Gross staying. If he moves to Germany, he’ll be taking a big pay cut as I would imagine his most recently signed deal with us would have been a lucrative one. He will want to see that...
The craziest thing about the Pedro decision is that it gave him a great opportunity to show he wasn’t completely biased. At 4-0, it was never going to affect the result and was one of those fouls that gets given 80/90% of the time. It should have been easy for him to give it, and he would have...
Leicester effectively one win away from going up after thumping Southampton tonight.
Shootout between Leeds and Ipswich. I think The Tractor Boys will do well to win their remaining three - Hull (a), Cov (a), Huddersfield (h). Shame.