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Szoboszlai subbed on in the 68th minute and had 6 touches in 29 minutes. This midfield is tired and toothless and Harvey Elliott couldn’t buy his way onto the pitch. Fortunate set piece at the end because West Ham utterly dominated us for the entirety of the second half and Alisson made a few brilliant saves thankfully.

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4 minutes ago, Bodowned said:

Szoboszlai subbed on in the 68th minute and had 6 touches in 29 minutes. This midfield is tired and toothless and Harvey Elliott couldn’t buy his way onto the pitch. Fortunate set piece at the end because West Ham utterly dominated us for the entirety of the second half and Alisson made a few brilliant saves thankfully.


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6 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:


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I like good football and we’ve played about two halves of good football over our last 7 matches and we’re able to win the league in neutral due to Arsenal stepping on rakes. One of the common complaints with Klopp was his undying loyalty to the same stable of players and we’re in the same frustrating rut right now. I just don’t understand why Endo, Elliott, and Chiesa can’t find their way into a game.

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A lot of that stable will be gone in the offseason. TAA being out throws a major wrench into the offense. It's a challenge Slot will need to overcome going into next season. We're on our way to the title because we've lost 2 matches all year, not just because Arsenal stepped on rakes. Maybe Elliott and Chiesa just don't show him enough in training to get on the pitch over Gakpo. Endo is always the lock it down sub but the game was tight. I think saying we're able to win the league due to Arsenal not being good kind of shits on the totality of what the team has done the entire season. The defense was getting clean sheets left and right for a good portion of the year. That's how you win the league. Go count up how many clean sheets we've had this year. I get being frustrated but we won. 6 points and we're lifting a cup, something that rarely happens when your name's not City. 

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17 minutes ago, Bodowned said:

I like good football and we’ve played about two halves of good football over our last 7 matches and we’re able to win the league in neutral due to Arsenal stepping on rakes. One of the common complaints with Klopp was his undying loyalty to the same stable of players and we’re in the same frustrating rut right now. I just don’t understand why Endo, Elliott, and Chiesa can’t find their way into a game.

Elliot isn’t good enough. Endo is a bit part player. No clue on Chiesa but our big issue is that we haven’t had our #8 that plays right back. Our creativity is gone without TAA. Elliot and Endo don’t solve for that.

FFS we have 6 more wins than the next best club.

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1 minute ago, hobbes2702 said:

Elliot isn’t good enough. Endo is a bit part player. No clue on Chiesa but our big issue is that we haven’t had our #8 that plays right back. Our creativity is gone without TAA. Elliot and Endo don’t solve for that

Elliott is not a perfect player, but he absolutely solves a bit of the creativity problem. His problem is he’s not physical and that seems to be the only trait that Slot cares for. Elliott / Bradley / Salah linked up very well against Fulham and nearly pushed us to a draw. Elliott was the best player on the pitch when he came on against Newcastle in the cup final and played three incisive balls into the box in a short period of time that we don’t usually see from a our MF (one which led to the Chiesa goal). There’s just no way you can look at Jones / Szobo’s recent non-impact and tell me he doesn’t deserve a look. Leicester is probably the perfect match to try it, but I’m sure it’ll be Grav / Macca / Szobo.

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13 minutes ago, Bodowned said:

Elliott is not a perfect player, but he absolutely solves a bit of the creativity problem. His problem is he’s not physical and that seems to be the only trait that Slot cares for. Elliott / Bradley / Salah linked up very well against Fulham and nearly pushed us to a draw. Elliott was the best player on the pitch when he came on against Newcastle in the cup final and played three incisive balls into the box in a short period of time that we don’t usually see from a our MF (one which led to the Chiesa goal). There’s just no way you can look at Jones / Szobo’s recent non-impact and tell me he doesn’t deserve a look. Leicester is probably the perfect match to try it, but I’m sure it’ll be Grav / Macca / Szobo.

He has some creativity but leaves us massively overrun in the midfield and doesn’t provide any real pressure because hes not athletic enough.

Slot’s style of play requires at certain level of athleticism that Harvey simply doesn’t have. 

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Just now, hobbes2702 said:

He has some creativity but leaves us massively overrun in the midfield and doesn’t provide any real pressure because hes not athletic enough.

Slot’s style of play requires at certain level of athleticism that Harvey simply doesn’t have. 

I think the Harvey point is right theoretically, but our midfield has been overrun for several weeks now because of tired legs and a disorganized press so I don’t see how it’s any different? West Ham marched through to the final third with little to no resistance for 40+ minutes.

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