Guest Kagoshimaowl Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Nuhiu was the catalyst!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mercury Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Nuhiu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ante's Bubbly Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 FF tried hard all game but like Hooper, he looked much better when Nuhiu came on and gave everybody up front much more room to play by dragging Charltons all over the place and even putting pressure on from both wings. Talking of wings, how come Wallace gets so much negative press? OK a lot of wht he does comes to nothing in many games, but he still puts excellent balls in which deserve a mention and put in two assists today and was involved in the build up to the second goal too. I would have Hunt, FF, Lees, Pudil, Lopez and Wallace on 7, with Nuhiu on 8, the rest on 6. I really love the way that Carlos reads the majority of the games and makes the changes required to change the game when required, but I have no idea why he perseveres with putting Hutchinson in midfield, especially against teams who are below us in the league. Before today's game four of us were chatting about Hutch and where he should play if fit and the general consensus was that we wanted to see him partnering Lees in a back four, because if Hutch played in midfield, he would get booked, go off injured and make us look like a defensive side. Come on CC, there are 8 games left and we all know what we get from Hutch. We get a superstar in the back four giving the midfield a huge helping hand by often breaking up play from a defensive midfield position and looking totally at home and in control. Or, in midfield we get a player who is outside his comfort zone that does not read the ebb and flow of the game so well and ends up overcommitting himself in tackles he cannot win, getting booked, getting injured and mainly playing as a third centre half. Enough already. Teams are feeling the pressure now and we need to stay totally focused, without taking risks that we have taken over and over again that have not produced the desired effects. The effect of playing Hutch is doubly damaging because it focuses our play in defence and it takes away an attacking option going forward. We need to beat teams in the play offs that we have not beaten and need special players to do that, Like Nuhiu, up front, playing Hutch in the back four gives our midfield and wing players the freedom to play to their attacking strengths. Get well soon, Hutch and Hunt. UTO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTO1867 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Atdhe for me, I've given him some stick in the past but he's improved no end this season, today his 45 minutes were impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greeny79 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Big Dave and Lopez changed the game, Fessi was his usual classy self, I think I love the little fella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOOTIE AND THE SHIT TU Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I voted for Fernando because he provides a threat that isn't there when he's not playing For all the Nuhiu haters, perhaps you'll take your blinkers off and stop complaining about what he doesn't do and concentrate on what he does do. He's never going to be a David Hirst, but then who is? What he offers is the ability to stop the ball going straight back at our back four First half without Bannan, we were hitting too many long balls, and each time the ball came right back at us, in the second half Adthe gave us a focal point, in other words, he changed the game I felt sorry for McGeady but the change had to be made Just a bloke, who used up all his luck in one go when he met his wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
since59owe Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Big Dave...... Wrecking ball Indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorian gray Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Nuhiu and Lopez had good 45 mins. Fernando played well all game. MOTM forestieri couldn't turn the first half... atty's presence and game turned the second... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorian gray Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Man of the match is the man that changed the match. Nuhiu. Would have been Carlos but in his absence its an easy choice. Have you ever seen such a transformation from trash to gold? Unwatchable to unstoppable. What the ferk does Carlos do and say at HT? "will the players i should have chosen from the start get stripped please"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorian gray Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Anyone not voting Nuhiu is just being obtuse some wouldn't vote nuhiu if he was our only player on the field, he scored a hat trick an' saved a penalty... i heard someone in the centre of the norf "boo" his name when the sides were announced, small minded, unknowledgable people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorian gray Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 (edited) Great post Fessi was superb. Nuhiu changed the game. Nuhiu MOM. nuhiu 'offered' something no one else in a blue n' white shirt could... he led the line... their defence was shattin' themselves with him on, after they'd easily coped in the first half... they backed off him. they bounced off him, their only answer was to foul him... one d*ck near me in the north was complain' "he's always goin' over too easily, he's always on the floor"... i told him the best c/f i'd seen in the past 10 years was drogba, he was always on the floor in european matches... and chelski had spent a fortune on torres n' costa and gone nowhere near findin' an adequate replacement, and that had cost mourinho dearly... Edited March 20, 2016 by dnhc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgmetcalf Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 NewWho was the game changer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowl Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 A vote for the referee. He didn't send one of ours off when maybe he should have. He didn't send one of our off for not diving. He didn't send one of ours off for an innocuous foul and he didn't disallow a goal for not being off side. On the experience of recent weeks that is some performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch McLovin Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Lopez made the difference today but FF was man of the match superb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splan80 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Forestieri typified everything that was good about us today. Caused problems for Charlton all day. But he's much more than that. An example being covering after a breakdown at our corner, he tracked back and covered at left back. His awareness is top notch and got him his goal, being first to the rebound. He should be out left all the time. Thought Dave and Lopez made a massive difference at halftime. Another great call from Carlos to change the game and give us the impetus to attack and play it quicker. Lopez was great at driving forward and Dave was like Samson (in reverse) with his Shawn locks. Won loads of headers and held the ball well. My only grumble was a slow tempo in first half and passing was a bit off. I don't think we can play Wallace and mcGeady together as both too lightweight when/at defending, so for me it's one or the other, with forestieri or Bannan out wide if hutch or Lopez play centre. Personally I'd play hutch at centre half instead of loovens, with Lopez in middle and Dave instead of mcGeady. Another thing to note for me, which becomes clearer and clearer, is although we are often poorish in the first half, you can see we do it to see whether the opposition can be drawn out and where space/weakness is likely to be. Carlos then makes those changes at halftime and we often become a different animal in the second half. It does mean we don't put many 90min games together but it's great to know that the coach can read and interpret a game during the 90 mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 2 massive contenders for me, Lopez and Nuhiu. Could only go for ones so I went for Lopez. Best I've seen of him, could be a massive boost with Bannan missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Big Dave Mean Machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_ Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Damn Atdhe! Back at it with Man Of The Match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IstillhateSteveBould Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Damn Atdhe! Back at it with Man Of The Match On owlstalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmowl Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Forestieri typified everything that was good about us today. Caused problems for Charlton all day. But he's much more than that. An example being covering after a breakdown at our corner, he tracked back and covered at left back. His awareness is top notch and got him his goal, being first to the rebound. He should be out left all the time. Thought Dave and Lopez made a massive difference at halftime. Another great call from Carlos to change the game and give us the impetus to attack and play it quicker. Lopez was great at driving forward and Dave was like Samson (in reverse) with his Shawn locks. Won loads of headers and held the ball well. My only grumble was a slow tempo in first half and passing was a bit off. I don't think we can play Wallace and mcGeady together as both too lightweight when/at defending, so for me it's one or the other, with forestieri or Bannan out wide if hutch or Lopez play centre. Personally I'd play hutch at centre half instead of loovens, with Lopez in middle and Dave instead of mcGeady. Another thing to note for me, which becomes clearer and clearer, is although we are often poorish in the first half, you can see we do it to see whether the opposition can be drawn out and where space/weakness is likely to be. Carlos then makes those changes at halftime and we often become a different animal in the second half. It does mean we don't put many 90min games together but it's great to know that the coach can read and interpret a game during the 90 mins. All good stuff, but drop Loovens? We have the best defence in the league at present, and Loovens/Lees are playing great together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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