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Against those big fuckers that Newcastle have at the back that was the right call by Moyes, he was a right handful for them.

It’s infuriating because he’s a perfectly good CF for this level when the ball isn’t bouncing off him constantly.

Unfortunately, it feels like the matches where he can control the ball are the exception, not the norm.

Would be nice if he magically rounded a corner when it comes to that.

kramer wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:36 am It’s infuriating because he’s a perfectly good CF for this level when the ball isn’t bouncing off him constantly.

Unfortunately, it feels like the matches where he can control the ball are the exception, not the norm.

Would be nice if he magically rounded a corner when it comes to that.

You see some holes in players like Dibling, or Iroegbunam, Barry or even Garner and they're all places that players can realistically improve with experience and training.

But your touch and ability to control a ball? It can improve, yeah. But not to the same extent as learning when to move into a space or show a player onto their weaker foot.

To be fair to beto he was very decent the back end of last season. His performance yesterday was too.

We played him in behind a lot yesterday rather than lashing it to his head on the halfway line. He also played well in the same fixture last season. Maybe we're trying to bait Newcastle into buying him.

Shogun wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:17 am We played him in behind a lot yesterday rather than lashing it to his head on the halfway line. He also played well in the same fixture last season. Maybe we're trying to bait Newcastle into buying him.

He did a lot more than Woltermode or whatever his name is.

Balls in behind or through the lines give him a chance, whereas, the hoof ball doesn't. It's like we play to his weaknesses

Paddockoldie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 4:25 pm Balls in behind or through the lines give him a chance, whereas, the hoof ball doesn't. It's like we play to his weaknesses

Criticism is mostly related to asking to play the role of DCL. We saw even under Moyes himself last season Beto can be useful if you play him in behind, it shouldn't even be a surprise if we watched him in Italy thriving off the likes of Deulofeu's crosses/pull backs into the box too as he wants to run onto stuff and shoot.

Feels like with both him and Barry we often don't really help them by playing to their strengths.

That said I always get the impression Beto is trying to improve himself and he did pretty well holding things up against Newcastle. So maybe he's been working hard in training? We'll have to see if he can keep that going if it was just a better day for him.