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My thoughts on it.
First half we battled well, but throughout the game we lacked any real quality. Our final ball into the box, or final pass, or even shots from distance were poor. Second half we started slowly but managed to defend well. Knicked a good goal from Sandro, then all of a sudden went so negative to try and hold on. Subs upset the balance. One thing I noticed in the second half was we defended so narrow. I understand why teams defend like this as it makes you hard to break down and stops sides playing through the thirds. If we was playing Arsenal then you could understand the defensive shape, but Sunderland have never been that type of side and their right winger who imo was by far the best player on the park was told to hug the touch line and found himself with the freedom of the park. Before the equaliser there was a spell of 2 mins when 3 times they switched play to him and he put in some fantastic deliveries which we were lucky not to conceded from. Then we should of realised that's what they will be doing but we didn't and all of a sudden we are 2-1 down.
Must mention Ndong, I felt he was head and shoulders the best player on the park. Haven't watched much Premiership football so far this season, but if he isn't playing regularly for Sunderland, he needs to be.
For us:
We lacked quality. We didn't have 1 player on the park where you would think he can do something for us here.
Sandro needs to play week in week out. Got tired towards the end, but done OK.
Young full back Kakay was decent. Don't know why, probably looked like him a bit but reminded me of Clive Wilson lol.
Sylla put himself about, decent in the air and held the ball up well. Wasn't in the box enough though.
El Khayati is a waste of space and every time I see him he gets worse and worse. For a so called flair player he has nothing about him. First half 3 corners in a row couldn't even clear first man and they almost scored all 3 times on the counter. If Defoe was playing we would of been slaughtered.
Washington. Played out of position, yes. But he is just not good enough. We signed him after a purple patch at Peterborough. Other than that he has only ever done it at the level I manage at with St Ives ffs which is a million miles away from the Championship.
I don't get to Rangers as much as most on here, so I was interested to see for myself if the negativity on here is deserved. I didn't think we were terrible, but we were far from decent. Felt Jimmy's mistakes were the subs and the narrow shape trying to defend a 1-0 lead with 20 odd mins to go.
First half we battled well, but throughout the game we lacked any real quality. Our final ball into the box, or final pass, or even shots from distance were poor. Second half we started slowly but managed to defend well. Knicked a good goal from Sandro, then all of a sudden went so negative to try and hold on. Subs upset the balance. One thing I noticed in the second half was we defended so narrow. I understand why teams defend like this as it makes you hard to break down and stops sides playing through the thirds. If we was playing Arsenal then you could understand the defensive shape, but Sunderland have never been that type of side and their right winger who imo was by far the best player on the park was told to hug the touch line and found himself with the freedom of the park. Before the equaliser there was a spell of 2 mins when 3 times they switched play to him and he put in some fantastic deliveries which we were lucky not to conceded from. Then we should of realised that's what they will be doing but we didn't and all of a sudden we are 2-1 down.
Must mention Ndong, I felt he was head and shoulders the best player on the park. Haven't watched much Premiership football so far this season, but if he isn't playing regularly for Sunderland, he needs to be.
For us:
We lacked quality. We didn't have 1 player on the park where you would think he can do something for us here.
Sandro needs to play week in week out. Got tired towards the end, but done OK.
Young full back Kakay was decent. Don't know why, probably looked like him a bit but reminded me of Clive Wilson lol.
Sylla put himself about, decent in the air and held the ball up well. Wasn't in the box enough though.
El Khayati is a waste of space and every time I see him he gets worse and worse. For a so called flair player he has nothing about him. First half 3 corners in a row couldn't even clear first man and they almost scored all 3 times on the counter. If Defoe was playing we would of been slaughtered.
Washington. Played out of position, yes. But he is just not good enough. We signed him after a purple patch at Peterborough. Other than that he has only ever done it at the level I manage at with St Ives ffs which is a million miles away from the Championship.
I don't get to Rangers as much as most on here, so I was interested to see for myself if the negativity on here is deserved. I didn't think we were terrible, but we were far from decent. Felt Jimmy's mistakes were the subs and the narrow shape trying to defend a 1-0 lead with 20 odd mins to go.
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