Clichy is still miles ahead of Gibbs in terms of positioning and defending but weaker in crossing and attacking style.
I doubt this based on the past couples of games. Gibbs looks quite promising before his injury but not so sure at the moment since there's not much 1st team play time for him.
Didnt catch the 1st half, but based on his(Clichy) 2nd half performance, he's only as good as 2nd string player. Made a very naive schoolboy mistake and luckily pak Lehman saved his ass. What kind of mentality was that? AW really needs to address this kind of mistake seriously. Same goes to Nasri & Cesc. Everyone knows that EPL ref most of the time does not protect ball holding players but yet they still think the other way round.
Without Song, the defence really out of sort. Almost heart attack inducing everytime Blackpool counter-attack. It's like there's no organization & communication between the back 4. What are our defence coaches doing? Such defence wont win us anything.
AA almost look-likes a 'dead-man walking' case. Being subbed at 60th min tells all.
Even with a few new players, i would doubt our penetration capabilities based on the past few matches performance.
In the 8xth mins before Bolton got there 2nd goal, even Cesc has no idea who to pass and what to do. It's so pathetic that for the whole season, nobody ables to point out/ advice to AW that we need a plan B in order to win games.
Clichy should has been dropped based on his current performance in order to have a healthy competition between the LBs. Nasri should be 'advised' accordingly by AW after the match since he seems like blaming others on his mistake where he passed the ball weakly to Jaaskelainen without looking for his teammates.
Overall, it's a very poor match performance given on our current league position.