LondonBlade89
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Several changes required I reckon. While we created chances going forward, we were repeatedly opened up by a very poor West Brom side. At times, they were dominating us in possession. That's, frankly pretty embarrassing. To go through:
Ramsdale,
Bash, Egan, Ampadu (Robinson)
Baldock, Lundstram, Berge, Fleck, Stevens (Osborn)
Burke, McGoldrick
- Max Lowe's go in the first team needs to be over (for now). He's weak in defence and offers exceptionally little going forward. At this rate, Ben Osborn is comfortably an improvement on him. Fingers crossed Enda will be back fit soon as I think playing him at LWB, and not LCB, will be a major help to that left hand side. I'd sooner we just stuck Stevens at LWB and worked out the issue at LCB. Stevens isn't good enough at LCB, so playing him there just means we're weaker at two positions, rather than one.
- Kean Bryan looked massively out of his depth. Wilder defended the move afterwards saying he's the one who sees what goes on behind closed doors. And let's be right, Jack Robinson has been very poor. In the absense of both Enda and Ampadu, I understand rolling the dice on Bryan. But he was terrible. Off the ball he looked off the pace in every way, be it balls played through on the ground or in the air. On the ball, I lost count of the amount of times he gave the ball away with aimless long passing. He was genuinely dreadful. For me, we need to get Ampadu back there or if not, Jack Robinson comes straight back in.
- Oli Norwood was very very poor. I don't know what's happened but he looks a shadow of the player he was. I've noticed some on here who have been quick to forget he was a very effective player for us in a large number of games last year. But he just seems to have lost it. He's not dictating the play like he was before, and off the ball his athleticism is a big issue, as it has been for a while. In for Norwood comes Berge. It's time to roll the dice again on him there. In an ideal world we'd be looking at Ampadu there, but I think he needs to lock down the LCB spot for now. Fleck's ball carrying will help Berge out too. And Wilder just needs to spend this week bigging up Berge and making clear he's the man for the job now.
- Lundstram in at RCM. Partly because we don't have much choice, partly because his set pieces seem to be better than Norwood's right now, partly because he does pop up in good positions. Let's try the Fleck, Berge, Lundstram axis.
- Christ knows what we do up front. Oli Burke is a serious threat and really should've had two assists. I think he deserves to start again. McBurnie, it's time to drop him to the bench. McGoldrick has to play with Burke as I think they can work as a partnership. Brewster just misses out.
Ramsdale,
Bash, Egan, Ampadu (Robinson)
Baldock, Lundstram, Berge, Fleck, Stevens (Osborn)
Burke, McGoldrick