This just isn’t true. The amount of times he had two or three runners off the back line and both fullbacks to hit in space and he passed it sideways was ridiculous.
You can afford a Haji if you don’t also have a Simms or a BTA playing. A decent target man and I don’t think we’d worry about him wide left. But two frankly 🚨 lazy 🚨 strikers we can’t make up for.
Haji isn’t a striker in that sense. Him and Simms have no sense of timing or are particularly great in the air. I think our issue was summed up when Rudoni put a great ball in behind the defence to exactly where Rudoni would be if he wasn’t crossing the ball.
Ben Sheafs shooting from the edge...
We’re just so ponderous under Lampard it can get incredibly frustrating. I feel like if we put someone through one on one he’d stop and check back to the CBs.