Glad to hear that he can get angry at sloppiness...a manager must have that side to him as well. I can only imagine what happens to his English when he's angry. I bet he just swore in Spanish...that could be frightening. Lambert said after the match that Mauricio is calm win, lose or draw if you are following his instructions, but gets 'frustrated' if you don't. I thought at the time that 'frustrated' was probably an understatement. Have to say that when I saw the headline, I imagined MP doing his hair at half-time...he is quite immaculate.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/10295345.Poch__I_lost_it_with_players/ It's true, he is a Fergie two.
Managers have to have two sides to their character...players have to want to please them and keep them sweet. He probably just reinforced what the team were already feeling after the late goal anyway. I love PTF's image of the interpreter going mad as well....a player would duck and avoid one flying teacup, just in time to get caught by the interpreters follow up. MP must be feeling lonely at the moment with twelve players gone to join their countries...as he said he will need help at the training ground.
"We are an attack-minded team and always want to push forward so it's not such a big deal if we concede a goal when we are pressing really high to get a goal for ourselves as well." Not the focus of this story, but that's a significant statement to make. I can't decide how I feel about the sentiment but one thing's for sure, we Saints are in for some heart stopping football under Poche! I've never been a particularly nervous fan, but recently I've felt like the opposition are going to score virtually every time we lose the ball. Hopefully we'll be 3-0 up mid-way through the first half in most games so that I can relax a little.
I don't really care if Pochettino gives the team the hairdryer treatment, all managers do that from time-to-time. It's necessary. A little weird that he chose that time to do it, as I thought that goal was more bad luck than bad defending. Coutinho got a perfect bounce and it just missed like 2-3 Saints players, going through someone's legs. Not nearly as bad as some of the other goals Saints have given up recently. But whatever, it was still a poor time to concede and Saints have conceded too many like that and had too many teams comeback so if that was when he chose to make the point I guess that's up to him. I don't know if it worked or not. Liverpool definitely had the advantage for the first 15 minutes or so of the second half (the only time the whole game they looked somewhat threatening). On the other hand, they didn't score in the second half and Saints made it through that danger period and we all know Saints have had problems holding the lead.
That goal was Keystone Cops defending. We had several chances to clear our lines, and as the man said, we had about 10 players in and around the 18 yard box. Playing with 6 up front seems to be the future, not just for us, for everyone. That's why Sunderland are struggling, because Martin O'Neil still puts out sides that are meant to be hard to break down, but relies on 2 strikers to get all the goals. The games moved on - several high scoring games in Serie A yesterday for example.
Someone on Sky asked after our win against Man City if this is the way forward, why don't all teams play like this? The reply from Curbishley was that you have to have the players who can do it. MP has said several times how pleased he is with our players and how receptive they are to his ideas. From what I have seen, the Saints players can do it and can only get better as they iron out the little errors that are costing us.
When you look at our line up on Saturday, you have to say that was a talented group of players. And lots of them are young and will only get better, while the old man (Rickie) isn't too shabby either. The future is bright, provided we don't drop through the trapdoor. And we won't.
Good. If I had been teleported to that dressing room at half-time I would have peen pissed that they conceded that crap goal!
He might equally have said, "because it doesn't always work" as our other recent results demonstrate!
I've come to the conclusion that it works against teams that try and play football, if they are trying to play out from the back through a hard pressing midfield they only have a small chance of making it all the way when you are hassling in every position on the pitch. I think it will significantly enhance our chances against Swansea, but will not make the slightest bit of difference against Stoke on the final day. You can't press a ball that is 40ft in the air!
Completely agree. It's no coincidence that our best results and performances have been against the "better" teams and our failings against those considered more.....agricultural....
