| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste 13:48 - Oct 6 with 3505 views | The_Romford_Blue |
In the championship. Ridiculous really isn’t it. |  |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 17:46 - Oct 6 with 726 views | Hugoagogo_Reborn |
That they are so different makes me smile.
Matusiwa looks like he's Bambi on ice sometimes, but he breaks up play so well, is tenacious and has a great engine. Elegant he ain't!
Cajuste is like poetry in motion, turns on a sixpence, is great at link up play, when he is on his game, he's a world-beater.
They are like chalk and cheese, and I think they work really together.
Núñez has great vision, looks as assured at dropping back to pick up the ball as he does sending through pin-point passes and shooting from range.
Can we clone the three of them together into 4 squad players somehow? |  |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 17:55 - Oct 6 with 690 views | Dubtractor |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 16:43 - Oct 6 by DanTheMan |
This isn't really aimed at you, but people are being really harsh on him.
I think he's one of our best passers. He span one of their players yesterday and put out a lovely ball to Egeli when we were on the break, and that led to one of our goals. He made more tackles than Matusiwa did, but he didn't get any credit for it, and he had the same number of interceptions.
For me, he's somewhere between Nunez and Matusiwa. I've not seen loads of Nunez in fairness, but he doesn't strike me as a very defensive player where as Cajuste can absolutely do a job there. |
Agree with this.
See also his ball to philogene for his goal against pompey. He's really good at creating space for himself and then using the ball well. |  |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 17:58 - Oct 6 with 689 views | blueoutlook |
Let’s stop this cringy it’s ridiculous business. It’s ok, but we haven’t set the world alight by any means. Be bloody sensible please. |  | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 18:05 - Oct 6 with 675 views | Hugoagogo_Reborn |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 17:58 - Oct 6 by blueoutlook |
Let’s stop this cringy it’s ridiculous business. It’s ok, but we haven’t set the world alight by any means. Be bloody sensible please. |
Lighten up, sweet cheeks.  | |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 18:08 - Oct 6 with 662 views | BlueBadger |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 17:58 - Oct 6 by blueoutlook |
Let’s stop this cringy it’s ridiculous business. It’s ok, but we haven’t set the world alight by any means. Be bloody sensible please. |
Imagine being this keen to find something to moan about, 24 hours after seeing off the budgies. |  |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 18:52 - Oct 6 with 624 views | ThatMuhrenCross |
I love Cajuste, but he does need to understand that he doesn’t need to do it all himself at this level. Sometimes a simple pass is the better option. |  |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 19:05 - Oct 6 with 603 views | BlueBadger |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 18:05 - Oct 6 by Hugoagogo_Reborn |
Lighten up, sweet cheeks. |
Hey, please, can we Be Kind. They've just watched his team lose 3-1 to their local rivals. | |
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| Suck it budgie boy. (n/t) on 19:10 - Oct 6 with 591 views | Bloots |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 17:58 - Oct 6 by blueoutlook |
Let’s stop this cringy it’s ridiculous business. It’s ok, but we haven’t set the world alight by any means. Be bloody sensible please. |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 19:23 - Oct 6 with 563 views | SheffordBlue |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 15:31 - Oct 6 by Kieran_Knows |
I’ve said it time and time again. It’s the fecking ‘turn’ of his. Looks great when it comes off, but when it doesn’t, it puts us in no end of trouble. |
The fact he's still doing it regularly suggests to me that he's under instruction to keep trying it.
For me it's a bit like playing out from the back - do it well and you've broken the lines and have an attack on with an overload, get it wrong and you need to defend well, very quickly. |  |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 19:44 - Oct 6 with 531 views | The_Romford_Blue |
You’re all weirdos btw. (Entitled to your opinion of course). Lighten up will ya. In this thread I’ve been told to not say:
- ‘It shouldn’t be allowed’
- ‘Our midfield is untouchable’
- ‘Cheat code’
- ‘Ridiculously good’
- ‘Ridiculous business’
All of which of course I have not even said. All I said was a midfield partnership of those two is ridiculous for this level. Which it is.
Cajuste was described by Radio London last year by their Spurs commentator as ‘it appears Ipswich have found themselves the next 100m midfielder’. While Matusiwa plays like the next Kante (his playing style).
Lighten the f**k up and enjoy it. | |
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 21:14 - Oct 6 with 441 views | IpswichTownBlue |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 14:32 - Oct 6 by southnorfolkblue |
Matusiwa is brilliant.
I’m less sold on Cajuste tbh. I know that puts me in a minority, but he doesn’t do enough for me. He’s as likely to lose the ball in a dangerous area as he is to create anything. |
You need that though, Matusiwa is a ball winner essentially and isn't going to be marauding forward into attacking areas often, so you need someone who tries things and is quite free spirited. If we had a safe midfielder next to Matusiwa then we'd likely sit too deep and lack some spark. | | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 21:33 - Oct 6 with 414 views | DavoIPB |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 16:43 - Oct 6 by DanTheMan |
This isn't really aimed at you, but people are being really harsh on him.
I think he's one of our best passers. He span one of their players yesterday and put out a lovely ball to Egeli when we were on the break, and that led to one of our goals. He made more tackles than Matusiwa did, but he didn't get any credit for it, and he had the same number of interceptions.
For me, he's somewhere between Nunez and Matusiwa. I've not seen loads of Nunez in fairness, but he doesn't strike me as a very defensive player where as Cajuste can absolutely do a job there. |
Just this. He did not have a good first half but second half he won everything. Put in some really good challenges. Covered loads of ground. Some people forget in previous home games him and Matusiwa totally dominated the midfield. | | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 21:59 - Oct 6 with 362 views | Tractor_Boy333 |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 21:33 - Oct 6 by DavoIPB |
Just this. He did not have a good first half but second half he won everything. Put in some really good challenges. Covered loads of ground. Some people forget in previous home games him and Matusiwa totally dominated the midfield. |
Thought we saw different side to Cajuste game yesterday he made a lot of tackles and showed great determination to win the ball back on numerous occasions. Yes he struggled a bit more with the ball but dug in and helped limit Norwich’s attacking play. Think his performance was underestimated yesterday. | | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 00:18 - Oct 7 with 308 views | duke_maiden |
Azor is phenomenal. Filling the boots of Morsy and then some I would suggest. He looks so assured and really is every f***ING where.
He's here
He's there
He's every F***Ing where
Azor
Azor
Cajuste could do with not losing the ball so much, but I feel if he didn't play on the edge like he does then we wouldn't get the best moments of him. |  | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 00:53 - Oct 7 with 282 views | Everydayblue |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 14:01 - Oct 6 by Illinoisblue |
Thought Cajuste was poor yesterday. Lost possession multiple times and bullied off the ball. |
In his defence, Norwich had 5 in midfield at times, with their press. And choked that area that Cajuste likes to work in.... Wasn't his best game. But a lesser two than Cajuste and Matusiwa would have been totally swamped... Thought they handled it pretty well...
Notice Hirst was dropping really deep to try and help the link up, with Szmodic running ahead a few times.. That's another pairing thats starting to come together a bit at a time. | | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 05:52 - Oct 7 with 235 views | Westcountryblue |
Think some of the comments about Jen's are pretty ordinary.
He turns it on for 25-30 minutes a game - and when he does - the game is normally won in that time. Portsmouth is a good example of that.
Yesterday, he did a lot of tracking, tackling and was disciplined positionally off the ball. I'm not too sure we can expect a player at this level to be like prime Maradona for 90 minutes each game.
Jens and Azor have a strong existing relationship from their time at Reims. Them playing together has coincided with up recent upturn in form - long may it continue. [Post edited 7 Oct 5:53]
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| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 06:29 - Oct 7 with 215 views | franz_tyson |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 19:44 - Oct 6 by The_Romford_Blue |
You’re all weirdos btw. (Entitled to your opinion of course). Lighten up will ya. In this thread I’ve been told to not say:
- ‘It shouldn’t be allowed’
- ‘Our midfield is untouchable’
- ‘Cheat code’
- ‘Ridiculously good’
- ‘Ridiculous business’
All of which of course I have not even said. All I said was a midfield partnership of those two is ridiculous for this level. Which it is.
Cajuste was described by Radio London last year by their Spurs commentator as ‘it appears Ipswich have found themselves the next 100m midfielder’. While Matusiwa plays like the next Kante (his playing style).
Lighten the f**k up and enjoy it. |
Add to the list " too good for this league".
Sorry, but most aren't trying to put Cajuste down but want to put things in perspective. The only thing "ridiculous " is the hype.
Next 100 m player? So why hasn't a PL club come in for him with a 50m bargain bid? He's in the league he deserves to be in and he needs to earn the right to be in a better league.
If he was as good as some say, we'd be dominating every game.
Matusiwa is head and shoulders far more important to us than Cajuste... he just hasn't got the pirouette .
Cajuste... classy player with a lovely turn and very good ball carrier, but he'll only be able to do that a few times - at best- in a game. So he needs to work on other parts of his game. | | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 09:14 - Oct 7 with 124 views | Smoresy |
Seeing them together in the Championship excites me. As of today I wouldn't be bullish if starting the two together in the PL; I'm not there yet but it's good to see the OP is.
We need to work on our ball retention. Matusiwa is a defensive powerhouse, who is also being dispossessed on average 1.29 times per 90'. Cajuste is being dispossessed 2.66 times per 90'. Perhaps McKenna is encouraging high risk in the centre but we were also very adventurous at home in our last Championship season (Morsy 0.48, Luongo 0.91). And the most creative, electric football of all is currently being played by Coventry (Torp 0.83, Grimes 0.34).
That's my chief worry. If we're losing possession so readily in this vulnerable area today and tomorrow, how difficult will it be to improve that aspect against much superior players in the league above, should we get there? Sunday's performance replicated at the higher level would surely have resulted in a loss, given where we surrendered the ball in the first half in particular.
My positive answer is that we'll continue to improve here as the season goes on, and crucially without blunting our creativity from the centre. A top Championship pairing should provide both. | | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 09:48 - Oct 7 with 88 views | darkhorse28 |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 14:01 - Oct 6 by Illinoisblue |
Thought Cajuste was poor yesterday. Lost possession multiple times and bullied off the ball. |
Exactly. Quality player, can’t play CDM, doesn’t work defensively, he gets bullied and targeted…, and leaves gaps.
It’s really weird. We didn’t sign a left side CDM, and we sign lots of players who are very talented. Nunez. Taylor, Cajuste, but they are all 8’s and not 6’s.
I think McKenna like to prove his coaching worth (to himself).
He got really lucky with Mass, such natural positional and spacial awareness - he was made for the role…, none of the above really are.., jen’s and Jack specifically don’t have the spacial awareness to do the defensive side and taking the ball facing their own goal.., it’s not in them.
Jen’s needs to ideally be in a 3…., and McKenna isn’t ever changing the double pivot.
Teams will target us down that channel…, less of an issue at home.., we might score more than the opposition, but a huge issue away from home.
Even at home…, if Norwich had scored twice form those turnovers it wouldn’t have been a shock.., other days that will happen.
It’s not coaching…, he di ant have those traits.
Really odd because KM has worked with him for a very long time…, it’s like he’s obsessed with creating problems. So he can solve them on the coaching field.., Nunez is probably the answer.. but then we have Jen’s and Taylor, two cracking number 8’s out of the side.
Sammie too…, no longer breaks lines like he did at other clubs.., his biggest strength .., he’s now a one man pressing machine…, good look forming a press with Philogene.
We should at least try a 3 in midfield .., don’t think McKenna ever has, which makes the recruitment look bizarre .., lots of money and players signed to not have anyone left side CDM in such an important rope.
Azor looks made for the right side role at least.., and Nunez is class .., had to play.., some nice problems to have. | | | |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 09:52 - Oct 7 with 83 views | BlueBlood90 |
| A midfield partnership of Matusiwa and Cajuste on 14:01 - Oct 6 by Illinoisblue |
Thought Cajuste was poor yesterday. Lost possession multiple times and bullied off the ball. |
In fairness I thought Norwich did a relatively good job on Cajuste.
They dropped an attacking midfielder in favour of an extra central midfielder and made sure to pack the midfield and close Jens down quickly. This stopped him from having the space to breeze through the pitch with the ball as he usually does.
Can't deny there were several occasions where Cajuste held onto the ball for too long and got caught out as well though. |  |
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