Play Blind instead of Shaw.How do you accommodate Blind if Shaw plays ?Blind is the best passer we have, so he has to play..
Play Blind instead of Shaw.How do you accommodate Blind if Shaw plays ?Blind is the best passer we have, so he has to play..
There are some knobs on the Caf?How does Smalling have an average rating of 5.7?
Because Bailly is a shiny new toy. Blind is the golden boy. And some fans can't seem to appreciate that we can have 3 great defenders all at once.How does Smalling have an average rating of 5.7?
...he was punished for it costly only once in his career, it's part of the defending, if it helps him to stay on the player and not let him go without conceding costly foul, I don't care. Some of the very best defenders do it too..I'm fecking sick of seeing him grab opponents' shirts. How stupid is he? He's constantly giving away freekicks for it and today it could have been even more costly. He needs to cut it out because it's only a matter of time before he gets punished at the worst possible time.
It's actually baffling how that really does seem to happen - even before Smalling started playing many had written him off and concluded Bailly needs a brand new senior partner.Because Bailly is a shiny new toy. Blind is the golden boy. And some fans can't seem to appreciate that we can have 3 great defenders all at once.
His rating was in the mid 4's just a month or so ago.
Possibly because he started the season with 1-0 against Feyenoord and 3-1 vs Watford. Not sure he spent enough time on the pitch for his Soton & Hull performances to be rated. He must have got good ratings for Leicester match (scored a goal) but Caf was pissed at the final score of Zorya and Stoke so everyone gets 4s after such results usually. Don't think Liverpool match ratings are aggregated yet (I can be wrong). Probably that explains it?How does Smalling have an average rating of 5.7?
I think people were looking for a reason to discredit him since mid-late last season tbh. Suddenly he became overrated, clumsy, lucky etc.It's actually baffling how that really does seem to happen - even before Smalling started playing many had written him off and concluded Bailly needs a brand new senior partner.
That's because he had a longish dip in form in the second half of last season. Including a few really awful performances. He was superb this time last year so here's hoping he keeps it up for the whole season this time round. When he's on top of his game there's not many better out there.It's actually baffling how that really does seem to happen - even before Smalling started playing many had written him off and concluded Bailly needs a brand new senior partner.
That's huge blow especially since Shaw is woeful at the moment,Mourinho on Smalling: "He had a bad muscular feeling. We were 3-0 up so we decided to change. Hopefully he can recover for the weekend."
That was really early in the game though, so I don't think so. Unless it continued playing through until HT.He was stepped on by RVP. That have something to do with it?
Ssssh, you're talking too much sense.Totally at fault for the Chelsea opening goal in my opinion. Watches the ball coming (which bounces a matter of yards from him) then points and moves out of the way. The rest is bad (Blind letting Pedro run off him, De Gea in no man's land) but if he does the basic defensive job he's supposed to do then there is no goal and no problems thereafter.
This is my view. Blind does get done but so can many full backs. What Smalling does just proves he's got feck all leadership. He should be binning Pedro there at the very least.Totally at fault for the Chelsea opening goal in my opinion. Watches the ball coming (which bounces a matter of yards from him) then points and moves out of the way. The rest is bad (Blind letting Pedro run off him, De Gea in no man's land) but if he does the basic defensive job he's supposed to do then there is no goal and no problems thereafter.
A comedy of errors: Blind, Smalling, Dave.Could have bailed out Blind but the main mistake for the goal is daley's.
No way for the first goal .... it looked like he was asked to leave it. That plus Blind playing Pedro onside by quite a few yards,At fault for both goals.
Really? I reckon you'd be much worseTake the armband off Chris. I could do a better job than you today.
Watch the replay. DDG calls for it. Smalling then steps aside from it to let DDG set to clear it. Smalling doesn't know where Pedro is. It's Blind's man. Blind plays him onside, Blind then doesn't even continue to run with him. Blind should be calling to Smalling to get rid of it. It's several errors from Blind in one piece of play.Totally at fault for the Chelsea opening goal in my opinion. Watches the ball coming (which bounces a matter of yards from him) then points and moves out of the way. The rest is bad (Blind letting Pedro run off him, De Gea in no man's land) but if he does the basic defensive job he's supposed to do then there is no goal and no problems thereafter.
He sat there and watched the ball bounce. Even a 13th choice centre-back for the Doncaster Rovers 3rd team knows not to do that.No way for the first goal .... it looked like he was asked to leave it. That plus Blind playing Pedro onside by quite a few yards,