True we’ve had games where we’ve dominated possession but that’s not good enough, any manager could teach that, it’s the next bit that’s the hard bit
We are sitting 7th yes. But consistently this season we are telling ourselves we deserved to win a game because we had more of the ball etc etc. how about consistently making chances across games of football so attackers aren’t having to rely on 1/2 moments a game to score goals from. I can take is having a bad game like yesterday but the signs have been there for ages. The last 2 wins have been on the back of shocking attacking performances, Philogene’s goal would’ve been disallowed with VAR and Carvalho got a fortunate deflection. They don’t suddenly become good performances because a goal flew in, good results yes. But performance level has not been good for a while, and I think it’s down to the system. I don’t think the system is the reason we are 7th either for what it’s worth.
And there's been plenty of games where luck has gone against us and cost us points. It what tends to happen over the course of a football season. I acknowledged in another thread we've been a poor run of form lately and it seems to have coincided with Seri being away at AFCON, so will be insightful to see how we play when he's back.
Really? You don’t think most championship managers could instruct their team to keep the ball just as much as we do? I think they could easily, it’s just most managers realise there’s more than that. Especially when you take into account 54% of it is in our own defensive third.
Don’t disagree. Just think we’ll still see this inconsistent form until we up the tempo a bit. Teams have an easy job of setting up their defence against us because even when we win the ball back, we play forward at such a slow pace that we they can get bodies behind the ball. Then we wonder why we don’t score many consistently. Blackburn was the perfect example of it. We played forward with pace after they’d over commited and then Connolly and Delap won their 1v1s and scored.
Poor run of form with Seri being away? We've averaged 1.5 points per game for the season and that also seems to have been the trend during Seri's absence. We're inconsistent,as are most Clubs in the top half.
Yes, they've deliberately brought in a manager who plays a possession heavy style as they generally do. They strayed from that with the Duff appointment and it didn't work.
I admit I’ve not seen a lot of us this season & what I have seen has been frustrating. But the comments about Rosie are very similar to comments about Southgate with England. The problem both have, is that the fans think the players they have are the best, when it’s a case of, they’re a bit better than most, but really not as good as the actual best. It’s a case of the manager trying to get their style set into the players, & the players then don’t do what they’ve been told to do. With City also, some people seem to go OTT with the players signed, how much they cost & where they come from. Carvalho is a player from Liverpool, so we’re going to win games, but Coyle is from Fleetwood & didn’t cost much, low earner so he’s going to cost us points. Having said that about Carvalho, reading the match thread, it seems he’s already losing his halo!
Can someone please enlighten me, I hear quite a lot of 'a false number 9', is this just another modern way of saying playing out of position?
Instead of having a front three where the striker is the point, the central position plays deeper than the wingers and is more a focal point to play them in. Or at least that's always been my understanding. Could well be wrong.
Why is it that as soon as Swansea got possession their players ran forward to support the move even their big no4 was 20 yds into our half when they were attacking - I do think Fabio is possibly under instruction to occupy a zone and not given the freedom he had at Fulham , he dwelt on the ball and rarely ran with it . our wingers should have been instructed to push their backs as far back as possible to create space as soon as we figured their plan , then we could knock it over them . Once this is tried and succeeds their backs would be hesitant to push up . As I said Jaden wants to receive the ball at half way at best so he concedes the whole half of the pitch to them .
Philogene barely ever pressed and strikes me as someone who likes to do his own thing which often works well for us but when he's having a stinker it really doesn't work for us.
I think you’re forgetting Celi is doing amazingly well and is going to be ready in three to four years time So think on
