You are missing the point here, our LB is not someone who will run forward and make crosses, which I think Timber could do well even being right footed and "out of position" because the role is all about understanding and reading the game plus physicality to execute it. If you need a crossing merchant like Tierney, then I do agree he won't fit there
Yeah exactly waay too casual for me, could have screwed us last night again. He tries to be clever and he aint good at it.
An unnecessary corner. Just like Fulham where they equalised. Point is he is too error prone
Kept losing the ball up the pitch, im not talking about just one game. He is a travesty your'e right!
we tried Tomi as LB a few times and it worked?
People are still trying to shoe horn players into traditional roles. I don't see Timber staying on the bench when him and Ben White are fully fit. He played defensive midfield with Ajax here and there and with his physicality/athleticism then he's going to be spending a lot of time as an extra midfielder who as a bonus is a quality defender.
Key word few times and Tomiyasu is hardly an ideal left back
Even bigger difference is Tomiyasu is twin footed. Don't think Timber is anywhere close to that.
Once most players are fit, I think he will find it difficult to get a starting position. Part of the reason is high expectations from Timber, and Tommy/Kiwi doing reasonably well in that position while being superior on the defensive side to Zinchenko.
Yeah? I said he is a great rotational player, so it doesn't matter if he has difficulties to get a starting position.
That doesn't matter at all, because Arteta knows that rustiness affects player's match sharpness a lot. It's not about the overall skill level. That's why he didn't make many subs yesterday even if the bench players are good overall.
Right, so Arteta brings him in "knowing" he is rusty when the game is being decided? I don't think Arteta was expecting it at all, 100% he wanted him to control possession and put pressure on them and the guy started to give the ball away for free
Where did he give the ball for free often? He didn't. One pass to the middle was when Nketiah slipped, but otherwise would have been a great position to attack next to the box.
Man, are you serious? even Zinchenko was angry at himself for giving the ball away for free.
His passing accuracy was 89%, which means he missed 2/18 passes. One of those was that great pass in the middle space, when Nketiah slipped and didn't get to because of it.
Xhaka was hated for a reason until his final year with us, and then his final year was really good which made a lot of people change their minds about him.
Yep, and I backed him up in those years, because I saw what he brings to the team. Just like Havertz or Zinchenko for example.
And what were those 2 times you mention? I already asked you before and you made a very silly reply rather than answer.
I've already answered that, not gonna bother rewatching the game to tell you the exact minute but I do remember his reaction and how angry he was at himself. So I was annoyed, he was angry at himself and here you are pretending nothing happened
