West Brom (A, FAC) 28/1: Build-Up & Match Thread

[Wellen Wolf]

Who is this thick biased northerner who is the assistant commentator on ITV Sport?

 

[Dire Wolf]

Lee Dixon.

 

[Pastywolf]

Bellegarde looks totally lost in this role

 

[Dire Wolf]

I think we are playing pretty poorly.

 

[Jinky]

Dixon doesn't half talk some shite.

Yep. Shame we couldn’t get McCoist on this one.

 

[The Bear]

Tough to break them down if we try and build so slowly. They're putting two lines of 4 and 5 really compact in front of goal and it's only when there's a sniff of a counter that we have any space to do anything.

 

[Alan]

Definitely a deliberate tactic in the opening 10 mins for us to slow things down and play safe.

Picked up a bit in the last 10 mins, though.

I feel like those are different things! But I agree we weren’t urgent in the opening stages.

 

[Wolftone]

Lack of movement from Bellegarde and Cunha

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

We couldn’t have any complaints if we were 1-0 down. We need to improve.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I think we are playing pretty poorly.

Passing in the final third is a bit off, but the effort and ideas are right.

It'll come.

It's just bloody horrible.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Bellegarde has been invisible.

 

[Jinky]

I feel like those are different things! But I agree we weren’t urgent in the opening stages.

It’s not difficult to look organised when the opposition are happy to tap it around the defence to slow the game down (is the main point).

Pleased we’ve picked up since then but agree with others in that we’re quite a fair bit below our best at the moment.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Set pieces have been poor.

 

[The Bear]

Set pieces have been horrible so far.

 

[C.L.D]

Tough to break them down if we try and build so slowly. They're putting two lines of 4 and 5 really compact in front of goal and it's only when there's a sniff of a counter that we have any space to do anything.

No answer to them parking the bus and attacking wise we're relying on Neto or Cunha to have a moment of individual brilliance.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

If people were expecting us to play nice flowing football today then they were very much mistaken, it was always going to be a battle.

 

[Jinky]

Bellegarde is a completely beige footballer from what I’ve seen of him in a Wolves shirt. Far from convinced.

You’d almost rather have Fraser playing through the middle with Cunha & Neto either side, as Bellegarde is offering nothing at the moment.

 

[Alan]

It’s not difficult to look organised when the opposition are happy to tap it around the defence to slow the game down (is the main point).

A bit chicken and egg for me but fair enough

 

[Wellen Wolf]

Who taught all of these commentator idiots to pronounce Bellegarde as Bellergard? And, what on earth was the main commentator doing talking about WBA playing in indigo? Time to turn to another language commentary.

 

[Alan]

One thing I think is clear is that Doyle can’t slot next to Lemina as seamlessly as he did with Gomes.

Albion nearly with an OG after good work from Bellegarde and Cunha I think.