WBA53 match thread

[boingy]

Furlong will be a WBA legend if he stays for some years.

[Barrera]

Impressive 2nd half. Furlong outstanding. But Mowatt for me is the one who holds it all together. But really like the intensity when we don’t have the ball .... then when we win it back we are “up and at ‘em” so quickly .... relentless pressure

[baggiematt]

Fantastic performance. The scary thing is we can get better when Diangana and Grant start building confidence and form.

Furlong was awesome, Mowatt commanded and Dara O'Shea deserves a mention, absolutely class!

[boingy]

comments on a Sheffield utd post match forum.

Lilly and rahma​is... burke good enough for sheffield united?
Kieran Hooper​Saturday…verrips bogle Egan Davis rnd…fleck berge Freeman…didzy…Ollie Mac Brewster
0GG13.. ​how can you say berge is not intrested???
Lilly and rahma​berges... head has been turned unfourtanently
dylan buckley​no... Burke is not good enough

Its time Burke retired I think. seriously. It can only get worse for him.

[boingy]

Furlong has everything. Attitude in spades, talent, and intensity. Wants to win. and now has the throw in weapon.

[rambaggie]

Great 2nd half performance. I still thin we need another midfielder to cover Mowatt or Livermore if they get injured. I will be amazed if we keep this intensity going all season. But hey, in Ismael we trust.COYB

[wbaliquidator]

Cant believe what I have just seen….
Us the Baggies outmuscling Sheff Utd…
Mowatt the new Robbo
Robinson a proper poacher it appears
And the very long indeed Fur causing havoc

[WBA1955]

In a word relentless.
The thing I liked the most was although the player's were sweating buckets they were enjoying it.
Val has moulded them into a proper team.
Loving it.

[mickd1961]

It’s surprising to me that everyone is so shocked by what this brand of football can produce.

Going back to my own mediocre football career which in latter years saw me at right back.......the very embodiment of a hellish Sunday morning was a left winger and a supporting midfielder who wanted to get in my face as soon as I received the ball!

It doesn’t matter what level you’re playing at, nobody likes being put under duress and very few defenders have the composure to play around a high and well worked press.

It’s even worse for the defenders if his midfielders are not coming deep to offer him an angle and even if they do, the supporting cast of Albion’s middle four including the wingbacks and a high defensive three make this an accident waiting to happen.

The only easy option is then the long ball over the top, usually in the channels but this requires pacey wingers and other players willing to bust a gut to keep up and support their man.

Our possession stats looked rubbish but our player heat map was amazing, we were camped in their half for almost the whole match due to the pressure we put on the ball.

Under Pullis and others we defended from the back which is always going to fail in the end because you’re usually beaten once you go a goal down.

I remember watching Albion v Liverpool in the early 80’s with my dad and he was absolutely amazed by what he saw from Ian Rush.....he said he’d never seen a forward work so hard closing down defenders and that Liverpool’s success was based on this ethos in that period.

I’ve only ever really seen young Lee Hughes do that in an Albion shirt from a forwards point of view and look how many mistakes he induced.

THIS has to be our template as a club from now on even if we go up and even if Val moves on which he surely will.

We look the nearest team I’ve seen to Bielsa’s Leeds since Leeds started playing this way.

The good days will completely outweigh the bad days.

[baggieal]

It’s surprising to me that everyone is so shocked by what this brand of football can produce.

Going back to my own mediocre football career which in latter years saw me at right back.......the very embodiment of a hellish Sunday morning was a left winger and a supporting midfielder who wanted to get in my face as soon as I received the ball!

It doesn’t matter what level you’re playing at, nobody likes being put under duress and very few defenders have the composure to play around a high and well worked press.

It’s even worse for the defenders if his midfielders are not coming deep to offer him an angle and even if they do, the supporting cast of Albion’s middle four including the wingbacks and a high defensive three make this an accident waiting to happen.

The only easy option is then the long ball over the top, usually in the channels but this requires pacey wingers and other players willing to bust a gut to keep up and support their man.

Our possession stats looked rubbish but our player heat map was amazing, we were camped in their half for almost the whole match due to the pressure we put on the ball.

Under Pullis and others we defended from the back which is always going to fail in the end because you’re usually beaten once you go a goal down.

I remember watching Albion v Liverpool in the early 80’s with my dad and he was absolutely amazed by what he saw from Ian Rush.....he said he’d never seen a forward work so hard closing down defenders and that Liverpool’s success was based on this ethos in that period.

I’ve only ever really seen young Lee Hughes do that in an Albion shirt from a forwards point of view and look how many mistakes he induced.

THIS has to be our template as a club from now on even if we go up and even if Val moves on which he surely will.

We look the nearest team I’ve seen to Bielsa’s Leeds since Leeds started playing this way.

The good days will completely outweigh the bad days.

We look the nearest team I’ve seen to Bielsa’s Leeds since Leeds started playing this way. This sums up your post so accurately and spot on!