No interchanging of positions today around the box today was the.
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I was watching some highlights the other day from Jesus and he was pretty much doing what we lacked today.
Hunt down their players, drop deep, give support to Odegaard, Martinelli and others.
Mind you, thereās not much we can do here now. Jesus is out. Lessons to be learned from the team when this happens, because it is bound to happen again.
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Jesus forces errors with his superb work rate and intelligent pressing. He also creates unique problems with his brilliant dribbling ability, and very underrated hold up play.
Seems like we really needed him today. We will need both Jesus and Nketiah fit to maintain freshness and variety when we come up against opponents like this.
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Martinelli himself still should not be playing this bad. Needs to adapt his game.
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When is this man back? Eddie wasnāt terrible today but he just doesnāt offer the same energy and control as gabby.
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Yep. No control to his performance today. Speed isnāt enough without control.
Quick thinking is better than speed alone.
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Yeah against an organized side that sits back and contains him, he can struggleā¦ today he looked toothless for the most part. Trossard a little bitter but his shooting was tragic.
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Agree but also think very much the issue wasnāt Eddie vs. Jesus - we were not creating much for long stretches and it looked easy for Everton to contain us.
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Think Martinelli really misses this guy and he pulls out left and high up the pitch that gives Martinelli a lot more space to roam into.
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He has to fancy himself against Coleman though.
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I agree mate he has been down. Iām not just talking about today though Iām talking about in general, his form dip seems to have coincided with Jesus injury.
Is that just a coincidence? Or Is he missing the spaces Jesus occupies contributing to it ?
Either way not good enough, agreed.
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Martinelli dropped off since before the injury to Jesus.
Still managed to hide it with a goal or assist here and there but his overall performances arenāt there.
Rarely do you see him terrorising fullbacks like he used to.
We saw a glimpse of it against City when he came off the bench. Should have happened again today.
Feels like they doubled up on our wide players because they knew we were harmless if we had to play through the middle without Jesus, he is just such a menace in that space between 30-10y from the goal.
I was thinking for a while we should desperately try putting the Parteys and Xhakas bang central in front of their defense and just take shots but idnoā¦ I got pictures of Jesus slaloming through 3 players centrally this game. Or even dropping out wide to +1 when they were crowding our wide guys couldāve helped a lot. In hindsight, anyways.
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Just hope Jezooz is a menace when he comes back into the team - he has been missed (gives us a number of other dimensions to our attacking play).
Rumours on twitter saying hes back training at Colney
2 weeks and weāll see him I think
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Credit to Nketiah we havenāt missed Jesus much, but canāt wait to see us back to our high gear play like we were before the world cup once heās back to full fitness.
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Whoāll start a game first, ESR or Gabriel Jesus?
- Emile Smith Rowe
- Gabriel Jesus
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Canāt fucking wait until this guy is back starting games again.
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