Why Can't We Perform On The Road?

You’re confusing banging the ball into the box as hard as possible with ‘quality’.

 

Whipped across the 6 yard-box between back-line and goalkeeper begging for a tap-in.

Now stop wasting my time you cret1n.

 

Sarr is a player who changes the game simply by being on the pitch. Every manager in every team sport looks at the opposition and makes plans around who on the opposing team is a threat. Our list of threats:

1) Sarr
2) Uh...... Hmmm..... Pedro?
3) Deeney? Perica? Sema?
4) Hughes? Capoue? Garner?
5) Femenia? Chalobah? Ngakia? Headed goals from set pieces?
6) Wind shear, Earthquakes, Volcanic Activity and Sunspots
7) Anyone else on the roster

Once you get past line 1, right now I think we're seeing opposing managers, while probably not cackling with maniacal glee, not being overly worried.

 

Lol

 

It probably is not the entire answer, but I do think you are right with this.

Plenty of exaggeration here - but, yes, it seems every team overloads against Sarr. & I don't blame them. He can change the game in a moment. This does, of course, cause other areas of the oppo defence to be weakened. Nevertheless, (and here I'm putting on my Smug Hat, because I've said this all along) he is a very frustrating player to support, with lots of apparently clumsy mistakes along the way. In addition, to be fair, last game looked like a new low for him (2 good crosses not forgotten) - it was hard to fathom why he set himself up to play in the way he did - so deep and so tentative and so unadventurous.

 

Straw poll:

If the Liverpool game didn’t happen, would Sarr have half as much expectation? I really doubt he’d be regarded as a £50m player in wider footballing circles and quite a few of his own fans would be saying he was a waste of money to be honest.

I still think he’s amazing on his day. But he needs to be like Benrahma was for Brentford - and make sure ‘his day’ happens more often than not.

 

Wider footballing circles, maybe not, but we all knew what he was capable of then, and I'd imagine the people making decisions at clubs did too. Let's not forget how utterly hopeless we were when Sarr was injured/not picked last season, even when we had Geri in the XI

 

If we had, say, Quina or Pussetto playing on the right rather than Sarr, would Sema be anywhere near as dangerous? Doubt it

 

Well, yes. But probably you could legitimately say that every player has his effectiveness influenced by his team-mates and by his adversaries, in every match. And throw in form, fitness and experience, coaches and motivation and you have a hell of a lot of variables. Makes football tantalisingly complex and difficult.

 

So the consensus is - the coach would rather guarantee a point than risk a defeat going for an away win. Part of a plan to go for a 90 point plus season

 

Other teams know we're slow at the back, and currently our game plan revolves around our defenders playing tippy tappy around our third, hoping for a punt up to Sarr on the wing.
Easy to play against or what?!!!
Pundits ripped into Bmth away last season as we took the mick as they continually tried to pass the ball out so we spanked them.
I don't blame our forwards for our problems either.... Our midfield is unfit, doesn't have the legs to "pass forward and support" enough and tries to rely totally on tricky passes to save their effort.
We need Sema's energy, +Hughes, and another FIT energetic midfielder. Sort the midfield out and I think we'll see a big improvement, but right now there's 23 teams there hoping to slug it out with us and their only big worry is Sarr.

 

Yes, it's genius; that guarantee we received that we will win every single one of our home games and never lose an away game we're tactically and mentally unprepared to attack in is the real kicker.