brady
Active Member
On Kolo and our fear of shooting
Agree that CB partnerships are important but individually the player must ooze confidence and take command. Kolo is nowhere near that kind of player. He's very good physically and fast but we notice that because he gets caught out positionally often and needs to sprint back or cut off the danger. Maybe he might still develop into one but frankly I doubt it. He always has a nervy edge in his game.
I thought the goal against Boro was a classic summary of the whole disastrous afternoon. First of all, inside a packed box, we were still trying to play cute one-twos. Why do we never shoot from outside the box? Since Parlour left, it has been rare (apart from Reyes who always seems to hit bodies, and Gilberto who always aims at Row Z) to see. Our cute passes in crowded areas are never going to come off and we got lucky with the deflection. Perversely it was the player who I had been screaming for almost the whole game to be substituted, who scored. Pires had a real stinker and if he expects a two-year extension, he needs his head examined.
Agree that CB partnerships are important but individually the player must ooze confidence and take command. Kolo is nowhere near that kind of player. He's very good physically and fast but we notice that because he gets caught out positionally often and needs to sprint back or cut off the danger. Maybe he might still develop into one but frankly I doubt it. He always has a nervy edge in his game.
I thought the goal against Boro was a classic summary of the whole disastrous afternoon. First of all, inside a packed box, we were still trying to play cute one-twos. Why do we never shoot from outside the box? Since Parlour left, it has been rare (apart from Reyes who always seems to hit bodies, and Gilberto who always aims at Row Z) to see. Our cute passes in crowded areas are never going to come off and we got lucky with the deflection. Perversely it was the player who I had been screaming for almost the whole game to be substituted, who scored. Pires had a real stinker and if he expects a two-year extension, he needs his head examined.
