qs! wrote:
y va marquer wrote:I agree that we should have played Flamini today too, but I don't agree that it would have made a difference to the result having seen the way the players coped with Chelsea's pressing and pace, particularly in the opening stages of the game.
Games ebb and flow. Holding on early is extremely important for us especially. I firmly believe having Flamini in there would have significantly changed the game. Maybe we'd still at lost but I seriously doubt we'd have been done for in 7 minutes. If nothing else he'd have rallied and sorted out some people after the first goal. I don't think its a coincidence that he didn't play against Liverpool either. He's not a world beater but he makes us more solid.
He may add a certain amount of solidity, especially against journeymen teams, but against the better teams away from home he doesn't make any game altering difference.
He played in the away tie to City, he played a part yesteday eventually too.
You could say he came to late to do anything but he was put on to stop a rout and he didn't, we continued to concede.
I don't blame him for that and I agree he should have started but I think mentally there's far more wrong with this team when they are out of their comfort zone that the presence of Flamini alone can put right.
Per and Kos had absolute shockers yesterday and against Liverpool, total bottle jobs.
