Owen Otasowie has only registered three minutes in the #EPL this calendar year, but Nuno Espirito Santo continues to see him as an option every match. https://t.co/2aG9S3jBST— Larry Henry Jr (@lhenry019) February 25, 2021
On the bench: Here's how Wolves line-up for tonight's @premierleague fixture against @NUFC. #NEWWOL 🐺📋 pic.twitter.com/6JqCc8TbLg— Wolves (@Wolves) February 27, 2021
Nuno uses two subs in a tight one, with no Otasowie, because I think he can turn in his leftover subs for a free sandwich after the game at a local establishment.
Hate to bump this from Saturday.... however he just made a huge mistake leading to a goal. don’t imagine we’ll see him again for a while.
Yup. First touch I think, stripped trying to dribble out of the defensive box, and five seconds later, ball was in the net.
Unfortunately yes. tried to take a dribble in the final third and got caught in possession. so two of his most recent game actions have been a missed open header and a turnover for a goal.
Deleted a post about the wrong goal (need to get my eyes checked). Here is the actual goal... 1366868512497668104 is not a valid tweet id
I will say it’s terrible man management by nuno. Starts the kid as a quasi false 9 one game. Then he gets in a good spot for a game winning goal and then he doesn’t get a minute for months.. then a weird sub against the best team in the world in the 87th min down a goal. I don’t get how that helps a young player. Either way, he needs a loan to the championship next year.
yikes - bummer ..... and after he gives up the ball and it is in the back of the net he bends down to straighten up his socks. yes a loan where he can get PT more regularly would be helpful I think.
Yeah, it wasn't an example of putting the kid in position to succeed. Nuno does other things well, but this situation has been a disaster for OO - they have little enough depth that they always want him in the squad, but not enough to play him, so that he's super-rusty when he does come in and fails before even getting his head into the game. I hope the US gives him a lot of minutes in the upcoming friendlies - almost no one in the pool could use an extended run of minutes more.
My days, what is with people lately? Young players make errors. Young players go through dips in form. Young players struggle for minutes. Every thread for young Americans is filled with comments claiming they need moves because they're going through a rough patch, while the same posters were looking forward to this lot winning the WC in 2022 just a few months ago. It's bordering on lunacy.
To absolutely no ones surprise, he’s not in the squad today. nuno absolutely ruined him. He has to leave this summer.
I just remember him sitting in the goal for minutes on end after he missed that header to draw that match in the 90th. No teammates came to get him, just left him there. I had a bad feeling after that.