- There is a difference between that, and writing off Griezmann. You wrote off Griezmann as a 9 after a few preseason games. I am not claiming he will work there 100%, but we should keep on trying it out.
- Suarez has a role to play here, but not as the undisputed starter you make him out to be.
- Lampard will hopefully not be here much longer.
This was Griezz's 7th game as a CF here, including a preseason.
He was quite bad in majority of games except against Napoli when Suarez played and in the 2nd half tonight.
Scoring 5 in one match and then not scoring a goal in the next 5 matches is not good since we need at least 1:0 in every match.
Remember that we were flying against Napoli, only to play a sterile football against Bilbao with the same lineup.
Even today, we have seen both sides of that team, in the first 40 minutes and in the next 50 minutes.
I am still not happy with Griezz dropping deeper than Messi and when we have no one around the box.
It worked for 50 minutes today, let's wait for a larger sample.
Lampard is irrelevant is attackers will score.
Or if Roberto will be Lampard No2.
There are some problems though: what if Semedo gets injured?
Roberto needs to go back to a RB.
Then you will have a midfield even more sterile.
That can all be masked by Messi.
But whta when Messi is not here, or when he is injured?
Then the whole team relies on Griezz and whether he will have:
1) a day when he can score 3 goals easily
2) or days when he can't score for 5 matches in a row
In the first half, we had only 2 players who were able to try a shot: Griezz and clumsy Rafinha (at times).
That sort of a team is walking on a thin line between 5:1 and 0:0.
how long have you waited to post that?
lets give it a few more matches as we've seen with dear Ernie its usually 1 step forward and about 10 steps back
credit for bringing on Fati, i liked all his subs today. and no Rakitic!
We were flying against Napoli also.
Sadly, the same lineup showed Jekill/Hyde face against Bilbao.
So, that's two awesome matches from EV in the last 2 weeks.
That's almost the same number of good matches as in the last season.