the pink palermo wrote:In the absence of a proven goalscorer the priority had to be stopping them going in at our end ., .
It started three games ago though.
We barely gave Boro a sniff from open play and only conceded from a set play. Pretty much the same performance as yesterday except people on here slitting their wrists because it was 1-1 rather than 1-0.
I think of the group as a central 5 - Reid, Ogbonna, Kouyate (10 yards up, 10 yards back, whatever), Obiang, Noble.
Not a lot of creativity, but they all know how to get defensively involved in a way that Lanzini wasn't. Obiang>>Lanzini in the centre changes our solidity.
Stick Lanzini in that five at the expense of Kouyate and we'd go back to conceding hatfuls. It's been the way ever since Slaven got here.
Fernandes is an interesting one. He appears to have many of the physical attributes of Kouyate, alongside the technique of Obiang. I made the comparison to one of the Spurs lot upstairs. Watching him yesterday, it holds I think.