Ben Brereton was much more of a Wilder type player tbf. Rak Sakyi needs to be playing as part of a proper direct attacking 3. Think I said elsewhere he’d have been a good pickup at the start of the season but given we’re now in for Esse (who’s ahead of him in the Palace pecking order) I’d go...
Yes, he does.
It’s not helping that so many others seem out of sorts, but he’s not offering for the ball a lot of the time, his decision making turns to absolute turd, can’t use his body to protect the ball.
If he still hasn’t learned how to use his body better to shield the ball then he never will. The amount of times defenders can get in front of him with relative ease is infuriating.
Something about our luck with these kind of things. KKH having to go off. Also remember a couple of seasons back (think it may have been NYD v Middlesbrough) Wright sat down for treatment and the ref booked him for timewasting. Had to go and sit on the advertising boards. Ended up out for a few...
Also, watched their goal back. Ok Brau makes a pig’s ear of it. Grimes probably reacts too late to track the run. But Kitching was the 2nd furthest forward during the attacking play immediately prior, and then it was he/Allen that were making the recovery runs and got back to our box as the shot...