A strange post. Did you watch the Wolves game. he was terrible. The worst sub performance I have seen. He made one tackle but across the rest of his engagement, either muscled off ball, passed to oppo or ran into trouble and attack broke down. He delayed on ball on edge of area and lost it which led directly to the break for their third goal. Another posted said he was partly at fault for second goal. At least 6 or 7 times he lost possession, how does that help us? He is awful. How terrible do you have to be before the manager stops playing you? Amad is good on the ball, perhaps a radical idea that we see games out by keeping the ball rather than playing 6 defenders.
It’s true, Antony was really horrendous vs Wolves. The mistake in that game, though, was playing him on the left( to keep Garnacho on the right). Probably an experiment because he created a couple of chances when switching left vs Newport, but that blew up.
Against the Hammers, though, he showed why he was played. A team that has let Spurs, Newport and Wolves back in four times, thrice leading by two goals, any manager is going to go the safer path, and Antony is a defensively safer choice on the right. He works hard, knows the defensive drill, knows Dalot, he makes himself playable for an out ball, and he can actually hold the ball up very well normally, contrary to what happened on the left vs Wolves.
His disastrous issues this seadon is more to do with what he does in the final third when we need a goal, which wasn’t the situation.
I don’t know what Diallo’s issues are atm, but he has to get ahead of Forson before he can expect to bypass Antony, and he’ll have to do that on the training pitch. If he can’t, he can’t.
