Festy Ebosele D Udinese b.2002

[SkStu]

He could just be making Italian-y noises.

[tetsujin1979]

Ebosele starting for Udinese against Cagliari, it's on TNT Sports

[tommy_c12000]

Did ok, got 72 minutes at RWB. Beat his man once in first half with a good run and dangerous delivery. Other than that reasonably solid. Should have done enough to maintain his place for next league game. Would be great if he nails his starting place.

Udinese are going to struggle this year. Poor side, not sure where their goals are going to come from….

[tommy_c12000]

Having a good game at the moment, defensively too. He’s my international wing back starter without any qualms, has the pace to make up for deficiencies.

should have had a very nice assist there but their striker missed an absolute sitter. I think Festy has done enough in the past few games to consolidate his starting position for a while. The only problem will be how poor Udinese are, can’t seem to buy a goal, manager unlikely to last

[tommy_c12000]

He was Udinese’s best player. Was able to beat his man at will. Best performance I’ve seen from Udinese this season, but were chasing the game against a tired Fiorentina (3rd game in 7 days) so hard to know if improvement or not. One goal in opening 5 games for them. Festy is our starting right wing back, need to embrace his potential

[Razors left peg]

Was named in Serie A team of the week, hes definitely making great progress

[SkStu]

My opinion is that he looked really poor during his cameos for us a couple of weeks ago and i am not convinced that he is automatically a shoo-in ahead of Doherty and possibly a fit-again Coleman in our more difficult games - as Tommy seems to be advocating for. I do feel strongly, though, that he should be our starter against Gibraltar and New Zealand. Give him space to cut his teeth a little more as an international starter.

[Razors left peg]

My opinion is that he looked really poor during his cameos for us a couple of weeks ago and i am not convinced that he is automatically a shoo-in ahead of Doherty and possibly a fit-again Coleman in our more difficult games - as Tommy seems to be advocating for. I do feel strongly, though, that he should be our starter against Gibraltar and New Zealand. Give him space to cut his teeth a little more as an international starter.

I thought Doherty was so bad against the Dutch and he annoyed me so much watching that Id be happy to see Ebosele get picked ahead of him vs Greece. I dont know how it looked on TV but live Doherty looked lazy, slow and uninterested. Colemans fitness is obvious the caveat, but with the group now dead Id be looking to pick players for the future that have better long term upsides.

[SkStu]

I’m not against it in principle, I just thought Ebosele looked poor, really poor. His touch killed one promising attack and another gifted the Dutch a throw in in our half in injury time when it simply shouldn’t have been a turnover. Not a huge sample size but enough of the basics went awry to raise questions for me. As I said, I’d start the transition in the gimme games but I’d like to see us play for points in the last two real competitive games and maybe protect our ranking rather then field a team of hopefuls.

[Razors left peg]

I’m not against it in principle, I just thought Ebosele looked poor, really poor. His touch killed one promising attack and another gifted the Dutch a throw in in our half in injury time when it simply shouldn’t have been a turnover. Not a huge sample size but enough of the basics went awry to raise questions for me. As I said, I’d start the transition in the gimme games but I’d like to see us play for points in the last two real competitive games and maybe protect our ranking rather then field a team of hopefuls.

I thought Manning was actually worse than Ebosele and he was on longer. Ebosele didnt bother me too much but I wouldnt have been calling for him to be picked prior to now. I think we are at the point were we are lacking in certain positions so we need to put players in sooner that whats ideal, but if hes starting to get into Serie A teams of the week then maybe Ebosele would be a justified position.

In other positions Id be fast tracking Moran and Azaz in midfield, its time to be a bit braver there I think and Hendrick and McGrath are obvious ones to be replaced.

Our strikers are finally starting to show a bit of life, and at this point Kenny has only good will to gain so he might as well get braver in his team selections... although I think it'll probably be more conservative he'll get now.

[JR89]

Our strikers are finally starting to show a bit of life, and at this point Kenny has only good will to gain so he might as well get braver in his team selections... although I think it'll probably be more conservative he'll get now.

With our forwards performing the logical thing would be go 4-3-3 but he's too stuck on 3-5-2. Can't go 3-4-3 cause Greece will likely run through our midfield.

Ferguson is starting so that's one of the two forward positions taken. Connolly has started the season in great form and Ogbene got good reviews after his first PL start plus has performed for us in big games.

Gonna be a tough call for Kenny if he sticks with 3-5-2. Should go 4-3-3 with Ogbene dropping deeper into RM when needed defensively to make it a bank of four.

[Razors left peg]

With our forwards performing the logical thing would be go 4-3-3 but he's too stuck on 3-5-2. Can't go 3-4-3 cause Greece will likely run through our midfield.

Ferguson is starting so that's one of the two forward positions taken. Connolly has started the season in great form and Ogbene got good reviews after his first PL start plus has performed for us in big games.

Gonna be a tough call for Kenny if he sticks with 3-5-2. Should go 4-3-3 with Ogbene dropping deeper into RM when needed defensively to make it a bank of four.

Am I too old fashioned or is there anything to be said for a 4-4-2 or at least some form of it?

We have decent options for back 4. Midfield we have players like Smallbone, Knight, and now Moran and Azaz who can play centrally but go wide. We have wingers in Johnston, Ogbene and Manning (I dont think hes good defender), Ebosele can also play wide midfield.

Up front Ive always like 2 central strikers and we are starting to get good competition from places when everyone is fit.

I do agree that I wish we'd move on from the 3 at the back, or at least take every game on its merits and adapt instead of sticking to something rigidly