Recent content by sammyhol

How anyone can still be defending ETH after his approach this season blows my mind. He has been the biggest issue this season. Not the injuries. Not underperforming players. Him, and specifically his suicidal setup. It's as simple as that. Even with Pep or Klopp, it would take a miracle for...

The manager. Specifically the setup. It's as simple as that. Even with Pep or Klopp, it would take a miracle for this squad to be genuinely challenging. But the collective quality in the squad is far better than what we are seeing demonstrated on the pitch. We demonstrated this for large...

OP's question is the wrong one. For me it should be "Is Gareth Southgate the most overrated manager on the planet?". To which the answer could very well be yes. He has a reputation built solely on England's supposed improvement in tournaments. But if you actually scratch beneath the surface...

Very good in forward areas in the first 30 mins. But how anyone can watch our setup and not think that the manager’s tactics are suicidal is beyond me. One pass beats our entire midfield.

He was poor on the ball… probably still is. But he has some elite defending qualities we have massively lacked since he left, mainly the combination of pace and complete aerial domination. And had we have been spoiled with elite, ball playing CBs since Smalling left, you’d have a better point...

Selling him and Smalling in quick succession was up there with some of the worst decision making the club has made in the post Ferguson years. God knows how much we have spent on CBs since, but aside from a perma-injured Martinez, they could and probably should have been mainstays of the first...

He was awful… His effort was awful… No excuse for that. But… How many times do managers have to see him be absolutely useless at Number 9 before stopping trying it. Has he had a single good game there in 7 years? Then try something else ffs!

Even with the injuries… Please, someone… make any of the decisions today make sense. The starting 11. Rashford at 9 The changes… Just awful

I’ve been defending him a lot this season Especially in the last few weeks when he has looked a lot more sensible in possession. But he was god awful today. All of his worst traits on display. None of his best

Literally made more tackles than the entire Villa team in the first half….

I’m saying I don’t buy the argument that there are many other players in Europe, let alone our squad who would be so creatively impactful if given a free role at 10 (a role he no longer has mind you). Lentwood puts it perfectly. He makes easy things look hard at times. But he doesn’t half...

Lots to be happy about, but also potentially worried about with that performance. The good… he clearly is an improvement on all other options at 6, dangerous in the opposition box, loads of good positional interceptions, some good penetrative passing The bad…. Well that depends on your...

I just don’t buy that argument. He definitely gives it away more than other players might. I don’t for one second think that there are not flaws to his game. He plays plenty of passes that aren’t on. And he also occasionally doesn’t execute passes that he spots that are on. But he spots the...

Great 1st half. Sloppiness crept in during the second half. I get the frustrations that people have with him. But pretty much everything creative goes through him. Countless through balls tonight that probably should have been better used by teammates… the step over through to Hojlund on...

Used perfectly. Impact sub. Further up the pitch, when the game is ragged and circulating possession is of less value. Unfortunately, the only good substitution ETH made from a game management perspective. The rest were awful.