Facing the same problem as always when Gabbiadini plays on his own up top - he's completely isolated and not getting involved enough.
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£6million for a fifth choice player? Blimey. We must already be planning for selling Hoedt in a couple of seasons time after selling Van Dijk next summer.
How so? Redmond was only dropped for the last game despite being completely ineffective all season. Hoedt played well early season, was dropped. Yoshida came in, played well, was dropped.
Kind of p*sses on our "pathway to the first team" when he puts in performances like he did last season and then we go and sign TWO centrebacks in the summer.
Yep, very. This manager seems to take forever to drop players who are bang out of form, but is happy to drop those who are performing at a moments notice.
Back to one striker as well...I hope i'm wrong but I predict Gabbiadini to do nothing today. He doesn't link up well enough to play on his own up top and the rest of them don't get close enough to him.
Having said that, he scored V United in the cup from JWP crosses from the right and Boufal should be more creative than anyone he's played with so far.
You say this like he underperformed, but he was generally talked about very well by all on here and pundits talking about the games. He got dropped after we conceded to Man United with Lukaku fouling him to get him out the way, so he's been treated kind of harshly in my eyes.
I still maintain a switch to three at the back would see us get our best players on the pitch and actually give us more of a threat going forward, with two strikers being picked instead of one.