LFC2007 wrote:Owzat wrote:LFC2007 wrote:Only saw bits of the game, but I agree that Degen has an air of headless chicken about him. Insua looked rusty to say the least.
Pacheco is definitely one to look out for, if he can develop physically I think we could be on to one. He looks sound technically and his movement looks encouraging. It's still early days though and the oppo were categorically sh!t.
Exactly what I said, more or less, on a general forum. The opposition were poor, his finishing wasn't much better and he will have to up that performance when the opposition are better. We had the look of Arsenal at time, trying to thread the ball through or dribble through the defence. Did anyone see or count any crosses from the FBs? Supposedly that is our width, according to reports of Rafa's views
Yeh, my gut instinct is we're fecked if we think Degen's our answer to the right. Pace, power, average technique, but not much else. Defensively clueless.
That's just my instinct having only seen bits of him. It's early days but something doesn't seem right. Even when I saw his face in the press conference he looked a bit thick, one of them you think 'oh sh!t, he hasn't a clue'.
I've hammered the lad and he hasn't even played a competitive game yet
Remember skrtel's debut ? He was very poor in that game and cost us the opening two goals if i remember it was a cup game , after those 2 games i think skrtel recovered superbly and was immense . Degen has been out for some time and just came back for injury , maybe a couple more games than we will get a clearer picture if he can survive in the premier league . Insua was also very rusty but this has been the only poor game the lad has had ever since playing for the first team . We've got a couple more friendlies and we should start seeing more first team players starting games soon