RashyForPM
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Just to clarify to prevent people saying I’m turning on Martial already, I’m a massive Martial fan, but after his show of petulance against Spurs, his sending off has debatably been a blessing in disguise. Our performance against Newcastle was our best of the PL season and saw us have the most shots of any team so far with 28 in what seems to be the highest scoring start to a PL season ever. Then, he got reinstated and was the worst of the best last night (admittedly, the other 10 were sensational, played like SAF’s 2006-09 team, and that isn’t an exaggeration), scoring an own goal in the process.
To add to that, Martial has played 4 games this season and has scored 0 goals, and hasn’t looked like scoring in any of those games bar last night when Bruno almost squared to him. In fact, if we’re being honest, he hasn’t played well in any, although he was alright last night. Essentially, Martial’s sending off, while we wouldn’t have lost 1-6 if it didn’t happen, could somewhat be and was already in regards to the Newcastle game a blessing in disguise. Especially if we put in another class attacking performance against Chelsea without him, then why should he return instantly?
In short, does Martial make your team against Leipzig and then Istanbul Başakşehir? No for me, unless the performance against Chelsea is horrendous, which I hope and believe it won’t be as Ole and the lads clearly look very confident now.
To add to that, Martial has played 4 games this season and has scored 0 goals, and hasn’t looked like scoring in any of those games bar last night when Bruno almost squared to him. In fact, if we’re being honest, he hasn’t played well in any, although he was alright last night. Essentially, Martial’s sending off, while we wouldn’t have lost 1-6 if it didn’t happen, could somewhat be and was already in regards to the Newcastle game a blessing in disguise. Especially if we put in another class attacking performance against Chelsea without him, then why should he return instantly?
In short, does Martial make your team against Leipzig and then Istanbul Başakşehir? No for me, unless the performance against Chelsea is horrendous, which I hope and believe it won’t be as Ole and the lads clearly look very confident now.