Can anyone remember i was the only one who said Muntari and Sessegnon should not be signed? While everyone else was raving about their impending arrival, i sniped that they're not good enough. I said Muntari is nothing more than a plodder nowadays and Sessegnon is a park footballer. Having watched nothing more than youtube videos of Sessegnon, i was able to accurately identify a very poorly rounded footballer. Surely Bruce had seen a considerable amount of video footage before this signing, how was he unable to see what i could see? Had he not seen Muntari play in the last couple of years? I had, and he'd been no better than atrocious.
Why do we play football with a flat back four? No team looking to break into top 10 PL plays this way. Why do we play with outright defenders at fullback? It's simply unthinkable to play this way if the intention is to be a good team. Why could i see this and was saying this WHILE we were winning games. We've played scrappy rotten football all season, barring 1-2 games. Our rudimentary tactics were always going to be blasted apart soon enough. Manchester united have Evra and Rafael, Arsenal have Sagna and Clichy, Chelsea have Cole and Bosingwa etc ect. Sunderland play two from Bardsley, Onuoha and Ferdinand at full back positions. It's absolutely galling. This position is beyond crucial for possession of the ball. When do you see a Sunderland full back on the ball to the right or left of the opposition 18 yard box? When do you see our full backs exhanging passes with our wingers in this position? Can you believe it doesn't happen? This truly fundamental thing actually doesn't happen! When the full back takes the ball into this area, something that happens loads of times every game for most teams, the opposition winger must come back and the two central midfielders must pull back. The full back, or winger, can play it inside to the central midfielders standing now much closer to the opposition goal and far more able to play threatening passes or take a shot - when do our central midfielders never collect the ball in this position? Because we play outright defenders at full back. It's almost best to sacrifice defending ability for footballing ability in the full back position because it's so crucial to attacking football. Spurs playing Ekotto, for example.
I can imagine you can go through EVERY single team playing top flight football in the best european leagues (England, spain, Italy, germany etc) and find not another example of a team playing with two right footed players on the left wing, or vica versa. Maybe Byern Munich with Lahm and Ribery? Doesn't Lahm play right full back nowadays. That's probably the only example. What does this tell us about the criminal bad management to continously depoly two right footed players on the left wing? Effectively killing our football and giving us no chance. I dunno, i'm just ranting. I'm just so pissed off with what's going on with our season, problems that have been incredibly obvious to me for months and still nowhere near being rectified.
Why do we play football with a flat back four? No team looking to break into top 10 PL plays this way. Why do we play with outright defenders at fullback? It's simply unthinkable to play this way if the intention is to be a good team. Why could i see this and was saying this WHILE we were winning games. We've played scrappy rotten football all season, barring 1-2 games. Our rudimentary tactics were always going to be blasted apart soon enough. Manchester united have Evra and Rafael, Arsenal have Sagna and Clichy, Chelsea have Cole and Bosingwa etc ect. Sunderland play two from Bardsley, Onuoha and Ferdinand at full back positions. It's absolutely galling. This position is beyond crucial for possession of the ball. When do you see a Sunderland full back on the ball to the right or left of the opposition 18 yard box? When do you see our full backs exhanging passes with our wingers in this position? Can you believe it doesn't happen? This truly fundamental thing actually doesn't happen! When the full back takes the ball into this area, something that happens loads of times every game for most teams, the opposition winger must come back and the two central midfielders must pull back. The full back, or winger, can play it inside to the central midfielders standing now much closer to the opposition goal and far more able to play threatening passes or take a shot - when do our central midfielders never collect the ball in this position? Because we play outright defenders at full back. It's almost best to sacrifice defending ability for footballing ability in the full back position because it's so crucial to attacking football. Spurs playing Ekotto, for example.
I can imagine you can go through EVERY single team playing top flight football in the best european leagues (England, spain, Italy, germany etc) and find not another example of a team playing with two right footed players on the left wing, or vica versa. Maybe Byern Munich with Lahm and Ribery? Doesn't Lahm play right full back nowadays. That's probably the only example. What does this tell us about the criminal bad management to continously depoly two right footed players on the left wing? Effectively killing our football and giving us no chance. I dunno, i'm just ranting. I'm just so pissed off with what's going on with our season, problems that have been incredibly obvious to me for months and still nowhere near being rectified.
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