Champagneblade
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Now underway with a 0-1 in the Huddersfield vs Burnley game.
Apparently according to the Beeb Burnley we’re the dominant team and Huddersfield failed to register a shot on target.
I’m not overly shaken by the capability of either line up of this is an indication of how they see their XI for the season.
Huddersfield lined up as follows:
Nichols
Turton Edmonds-Green Lees Ruffels
Hogg
Thomas Russell Holmes Koroma
Ward
Subs: 8Anjorin, 9Rhodes,13Chapman, 18Kasumu, 22Rudoni, 30Jackson, 33Nakayama
I’m surprised Anjorin didn’t start. As a PL loanee I thought that they would have him straight in there. To me their team looks a bit stale. Lost a right back to Olympiakos, lost their left back and also there main engine in the midfield to Forest. Ward is a grafter but not a huge scorer. The defence overall looks unimpressive and I thought the midfield might have done better than yesterday.
Despite the positive result you do realise that Burnley have lost a fair bit of quality. They lined up as follows:
Muric
Roberts Harewood-Belis Taylor Maatson
Cullen Cork Bastien
Costelloe Barnes Brownhill
Subs: 6Egan-Riley, 11Twine, 15Peacock-Farrell, 21McNally, 22da Silva, 32Phillips, 39Dodgson
This looks quite a makeshift line up for the first game. They have the keeper from City who was effectively 4th choice there. Conor Roberts should be a decent performer at right back though is Lowton injured? He was not in the squad. Their defence is the 20 year old from City who was on loan at Stoke somewhat bizarrely paired with Taylor who is a 5’9” left back. That’s an obvious weakness right there. Maatson who was decent at Coventry is another PL loan, this time from Chelsea though at 5’6” he’s another that adds to the aerial weakness on the left.
The midfield looks robust but uncreative and lacks goals. Cullen got 1 in 67 at Anderlecht. Bastien got 11 in 106 at Standard Liege. Cork has 14 goals in 494 league games. Brownhill has 25 goals across 290 league games.
The lad on the right of three is a youngster and Barnes has something like a 1 in 5 strike rate.
Cornet and McNeil would seem a big loss in terms of creativity for them. It seems they will have a big reliance on Twine to replicate his form of last year to keep them in the hunt. Vitinho is the new Brazilian signing though I find this bizarre given right back is the one area they seem well covered. Bit like getting someone you fancy rather than someone you need.
At this point I’d say both need to be active in the market and we are a lot further forward with their squad building.
Watford seems a hard one first up with players you’d expect to leave still there, though 23 points was hardly sensational last season so let’s not be fearful in any way. Norwich we’ll see. Again 22 points was pretty rank, falling below our poor season twice by them.
Onwards to the next games. But nothing to fear on those line ups.
Apparently according to the Beeb Burnley we’re the dominant team and Huddersfield failed to register a shot on target.
I’m not overly shaken by the capability of either line up of this is an indication of how they see their XI for the season.
Huddersfield lined up as follows:
Nichols
Turton Edmonds-Green Lees Ruffels
Hogg
Thomas Russell Holmes Koroma
Ward
Subs: 8Anjorin, 9Rhodes,13Chapman, 18Kasumu, 22Rudoni, 30Jackson, 33Nakayama
I’m surprised Anjorin didn’t start. As a PL loanee I thought that they would have him straight in there. To me their team looks a bit stale. Lost a right back to Olympiakos, lost their left back and also there main engine in the midfield to Forest. Ward is a grafter but not a huge scorer. The defence overall looks unimpressive and I thought the midfield might have done better than yesterday.
Despite the positive result you do realise that Burnley have lost a fair bit of quality. They lined up as follows:
Muric
Roberts Harewood-Belis Taylor Maatson
Cullen Cork Bastien
Costelloe Barnes Brownhill
Subs: 6Egan-Riley, 11Twine, 15Peacock-Farrell, 21McNally, 22da Silva, 32Phillips, 39Dodgson
This looks quite a makeshift line up for the first game. They have the keeper from City who was effectively 4th choice there. Conor Roberts should be a decent performer at right back though is Lowton injured? He was not in the squad. Their defence is the 20 year old from City who was on loan at Stoke somewhat bizarrely paired with Taylor who is a 5’9” left back. That’s an obvious weakness right there. Maatson who was decent at Coventry is another PL loan, this time from Chelsea though at 5’6” he’s another that adds to the aerial weakness on the left.
The midfield looks robust but uncreative and lacks goals. Cullen got 1 in 67 at Anderlecht. Bastien got 11 in 106 at Standard Liege. Cork has 14 goals in 494 league games. Brownhill has 25 goals across 290 league games.
The lad on the right of three is a youngster and Barnes has something like a 1 in 5 strike rate.
Cornet and McNeil would seem a big loss in terms of creativity for them. It seems they will have a big reliance on Twine to replicate his form of last year to keep them in the hunt. Vitinho is the new Brazilian signing though I find this bizarre given right back is the one area they seem well covered. Bit like getting someone you fancy rather than someone you need.
At this point I’d say both need to be active in the market and we are a lot further forward with their squad building.
Watford seems a hard one first up with players you’d expect to leave still there, though 23 points was hardly sensational last season so let’s not be fearful in any way. Norwich we’ll see. Again 22 points was pretty rank, falling below our poor season twice by them.
Onwards to the next games. But nothing to fear on those line ups.
