Why is Flanagan so out of favour all of a sudden?

Iver · September 18, 2011

I cannot understand this, unless Flanagan is carrying an injury, and would love to hear Kenny's rationale.

He started the season preferred to Kelly at right back.

Now with both Kelly and Johnson out, he is not even making the bench.

Defies logic, especially when you consider that Skrtel is being picked in the position.

Much of the tone for today's game was set in the first fifteen minutes with the attacks that Spurs built from left midfield.

It was so obvious that Skrtel was being targeted as a weakness, and he did not disappoint from a Spurs perspective.

Flanagan might have been given an equally hard time against arguably the best left sided midfielder in the league, but at least his positional sense etc would be better, as he is not alien to the position.

Skrtel is a liability in games like today's, even when he is played at centre half.

His tendency to jump rashly into tackles, as he did today when on a yellow, is incredibly naive - he should be now viewed as 4th choice centre half, and not played anywhere else.

Epic Swindle · September 18, 2011