Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Weekend Recap - March 3rd

Not too much to watch this weekend.


Ji Dong Won -- Started off as a strike pair and had some good chances early, but struggled with Augsburg's 5-2-1-2 shape and was taken off fairly early after 58 minutes. I think this is a good formation for Ji but he will need to learn how to play with Bobadilla and stay involved even when touches go down vs being a midfielder.


Koo Ja Cheol -- Koo was better than Ji looking more comfortable in the hole behind Ji and Bobadilla. He had a lot of latitude to drop deeper to help in defense and possession when needed. In the final minutes as Augsburg were trailing, he drove forward but missed both open co-attackers on the break, but fortunately the ball bounced to Hinteregger who equalized. Not a great game for Koo but like Augsburg, keeps getting the job done.


Park Joo Ho -- Nowhere.


Lee Chung Yong -- Played well... for the reserves. He turned down the warm trip to Morocco to get match minutes with the U23 but at least he played well, earning a PK and assisting the other goal with a nice cross with a first time touch.


Ki Sung Yueng -- He returned to team training this week but with Swansea doing well, he'll be able to take his time to recover.


Kwon Chang Hoon -- Played a handful of minutes at the end.


Son Heung Min -- Remained on the bench, as Pochettino rotated the use of garbage time minutes to Janssen and Sissoko.