The game is all about opinions, that's why we're all on here. But I can't agree with the title of this thread.
My opinion is that I find it hard to criticise Rondon. He worked his socks off against 3 defenders on Saturday with a midfield that was 30 yards behind him. The best striker in the world would struggle.
We didn't play well at all on Sunday, I understand how we play. Play deep and hit on the counter and it works because we're so hard to break down.
But, the problem on Sunday was our midfielders were not supporting Rondon. Morrison, Phillips and Livermore had shockers. Even JRod didn't have that great a game, but he was the only one prepared to gamble in the box which is how we scored. How many of our midfielders made attacking runs past Rondon?
When you play the system we play, the bulk of the goals shouldn't come from Rondon. They should come from our attacking midfielders. Because its so hard to track them running from deep, we didn't have that Sunday.
So unless you want Rondon to pick the ball up on the halfway line, beat three defenders and put it in the top corner I don't see how he could have done much more without the support from his midfielders.
Playing Jrod up front on his own wouldn't have done anything else if our midfield played so deep, apart from he can't hold the ball up as well as Rondon.
Got to say as everyone else has the two stand out players were Nyom and Barry. Defensively we only made one mistake, which was enough to cost us two points. Having said that, had we have won, I'm sure nobody on here would be complaining about our style of play.
We can't play attacking, pressing football because our strengths are to sit deep and counter attack. Our defenders are too slow to play high up the pitch.
Ultimately we all want Albion to win however they do it. We all have to understand that we have to sacrifice good football for that to happen with our current system.




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