I agree with most of the article. I didn’t think they got bypassed a ton, only a couple of times. Each midfield in a game where opponents are aggressive with the press and have a lot of runners will get bypassed a few times, the only reason this gets highlighted is because they conceded when they both got bypassed. I think their partnership was probably the best part of that game for England in an otherwise terrible performance.
Lord_Sesshoumaru77 on
Good article with good analysis. And yes, they were certainly bypassed easily for Japan’s goal, but if Carrick keeps the job, Carrick is not Tuchel, so that’s fine. Carrick could mold Anderson into a world class midfielder.
AJ-Naka-Zayn-Owens on
I don’t know if he’s the right fit for us. If we want to play with the ball more, surely we’d look for a different profile of player
Se7enSword on
Other way around. Does Kobbie Mainoo work with Elliot Anderson? We should not be bottlenecked based on who works with Mainoo. We need 3 midfielders, two top quality starters, one rotation and Mainoo should be rotation while he continues his development. He’s not the finished article and he’s not gonna be at the start of next season.
Ideally i’d have us target and sign Anderson + Bouaddi/Wharton as main targets, Baleba as backup.
kidinawheeliebin on
Anderson is paired with Sangare (a DM) at Forest, but Anderson is also (let’s be honest) a much better and more dominant midfielder than Mainoo
To be fair to Kobbie he is only turning 21 next week, whereas Anderson will be 24 early next season, and Mainoo had a horribly disrupted and unsettled first half of the season which cannot be helping him either
But no, they would not work as a pair in most games of any significance…
Domestic cup games, easy european games, maybe the odd home premier league game against an injury ravaged promoted side or something – sure – but they would be exposed by many teams over the course of a Premier League/Champions League season
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I agree with most of the article. I didn’t think they got bypassed a ton, only a couple of times. Each midfield in a game where opponents are aggressive with the press and have a lot of runners will get bypassed a few times, the only reason this gets highlighted is because they conceded when they both got bypassed. I think their partnership was probably the best part of that game for England in an otherwise terrible performance.
Good article with good analysis. And yes, they were certainly bypassed easily for Japan’s goal, but if Carrick keeps the job, Carrick is not Tuchel, so that’s fine. Carrick could mold Anderson into a world class midfielder.
I don’t know if he’s the right fit for us. If we want to play with the ball more, surely we’d look for a different profile of player
Other way around. Does Kobbie Mainoo work with Elliot Anderson? We should not be bottlenecked based on who works with Mainoo. We need 3 midfielders, two top quality starters, one rotation and Mainoo should be rotation while he continues his development. He’s not the finished article and he’s not gonna be at the start of next season.
Ideally i’d have us target and sign Anderson + Bouaddi/Wharton as main targets, Baleba as backup.
Anderson is paired with Sangare (a DM) at Forest, but Anderson is also (let’s be honest) a much better and more dominant midfielder than Mainoo
To be fair to Kobbie he is only turning 21 next week, whereas Anderson will be 24 early next season, and Mainoo had a horribly disrupted and unsettled first half of the season which cannot be helping him either
But no, they would not work as a pair in most games of any significance…
Domestic cup games, easy european games, maybe the odd home premier league game against an injury ravaged promoted side or something – sure – but they would be exposed by many teams over the course of a Premier League/Champions League season