Johnson > Tettey

[hogesar 10,762]

I really try, genuinely i do, but i cannot see the love-in for Tettey and the criticism aimed at Johnson.Just because Tettey has pace, and runs about, doesn''t make him a good midfielder.His passing is absolutely dreadful and although he does sometimes find his man he''s normally taken 7 touches to do so, and the player he passes to is under pressure. He done this to Martin several times today.I also don''t think his positional awareness nor tackling is at Johnsons level. Johnson appears to go missing for periods of a game, granted, but if you watch him his positioning at least makes more sense than Tetteys aimless wandering.I really liked Tettey when he first broke into the squad and he had a run of games where he was top class but i don''t think he''s performing anywhere near that. Johnson played a couple of good balls and put in some good tackles but he''s never going to be a box-to-box midfielder so to speak.If one of the two are to be dropped i would still make it Tettey. I''d personally like to see Fox given a decent opportunity but of course, just my opinion!

[superzach 0]

[quote user="hogesar"]I really try, genuinely i do, but i cannot see the love-in for Tettey and the criticism aimed at Johnson.Just because Tettey has pace, and runs about, doesn''t make him a good midfielder.His passing is absolutely dreadful and although he does sometimes find his man he''s normally taken 7 touches to do so, and the player he passes to is under pressure. He done this to Martin several times today.I also don''t think his positional awareness nor tackling is at Johnsons level. Johnson appears to go missing for periods of a game, granted, but if you watch him his positioning at least makes more sense than Tetteys aimless wandering.I really liked Tettey when he first broke into the squad and he had a run of games where he was top class but i don''t think he''s performing anywhere near that. Johnson played a couple of good balls and put in some good tackles but he''s never going to be a box-to-box midfielder so to speak.If one of the two are to be dropped i would still make it Tettey. I''d personally like to see Fox given a decent opportunity but of course, just my opinion![/quote]both have their strengths and obvious weaknesses. thing is we need only one of them and not both. we need a DM next to a CM or AM.  One person to break up play, the other to make the good pass or run towards the opponents. as has been said a million times on here, playing both is too defensive and therefore too negative. the balance is too much towards the defensive.  we are playing the italian way - playing to not lose rather than win.  we''re not stoke yet but its getting rather tedious.