Burnley's pressing structure this evening was such that Ndombele and Skipp were boxed in by Burnley's front 2 and their 2 CMs.
Chelsea did the same thing to Ndombele and Winks a few weeks back.
Very difficult for the CBs to pass to them.
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Chelsea did the same thing to Ndombele and Winks a few weeks back.
Very difficult for the CBs to pass to them.
I'll be surprised if we see him again this season!
Had two either side of them as well. Alli, Lamela & Bergwijn were constantly pissing away possession. Even MOTD just called Mourinho's singling out of Ndombele as bollocks, said there were many others who didn't offer much, highlighted Lamela just letting people run off him.
What the fuck was Dier doing with that header as well - why the fuck didn't he head it out to the flanks, just headed it straight down the middle to their guy.
But why pick him then? You see him every day on the training ground, surely you can fathom his physical state from that?
In basic terms, Mourinho's 5 fucking CB's in a line first half, basically meant it was 5 v 8 ahead of them. Or 4 v 8 if you consider Alli and Lamela are like half each.
It wasn't the tactic, for the 1st half display,all Jose done was a slight change to the back line, and in the midfield change the personnel.
Jose replaced Ndombele and skipp with Le Celso and Dier in the second half and put Moura upfront.All 3 of those players worked their socks off after playing 2 hours midweek.
With that change we gained control because we had Lo Celso taking the ball under pressure and using it well, plus putting in a shift, thus taking some of the pressure off our defence. Ndombele did none of that really, and it exposed Skipp who was chasing around trying to plug gaps.
Ndombele strolling around, not showing for the ball and making a few neat touches isn’t what he was there for. Take note of Lo Celso’s role in the second half for what he was supposed to do.
Ironically they are world champions.
How many of that squad were playing in Ligue 1 at the time?
Mourinho is the master of diversion tactics like this.
But fans who religiously follow the clubs he has been at aren't easily fooled by it. See my comment about his setup earlier and other posts from people in this thread calling out his tactics.
The point though is that the media fall head over heels for it. He's an egocentric.
Hopefully someone in the post match conference has the guts to call out his setup and mentality before going into the game.
He's not wrong there. The midfield was the issue.
But it was his fault in the first place. Its not a personnel issue. He keeps playing Winks in there by himself and it hasn't worked because he's always outnumbered in there. This time it was skipp. He wanted Ndombele to be next to him as a DM, but for some reason he can't see the Ndombele doesn't have the instinct or responsibility to play as DM. Why can't JM or any of the coaches see this? - it may be that tanguy tells JM straight up that DM isn't for him. That'll take some serious balls though.
2nd half was better because we had 2 DMs and 1 AM. He could have played Dier and Skipp with GLC or Ndombele ahead and it would have worked. Just the change in shape was required and could have been done in the first half. Mourinho didn't have to wait till half time to change it. Essentially wasted 35 minutes of game time after they scored.
I also get the feeling that Ndombele would fair better with moose back.
Our goalkeepers must have cost us a good ten points this season
Mistakes every other week from Lloris and Gazzaniga
And the one time vorm plays he single handedly bundled us out of the FA cup
Poch plays Trippier. Trippier is shit. Trippiers fault.
Jose plays Ndombele. Ndombele is shit. Jose’s fault.
You have so little shame these days, you don’t even try anymore
The setup in the 1st half was predictably an absolute disaster.
- 5 centre backs all just stood assuming each other would deal with any danger.
- the out of position full/wingbacks not having the physical attributes to play the position and join attacks.
- a 2 man midfield against their 4 consisting of a rookie and an out of form and unfit player who needs protection to be effective.
- 3 forwards all playing through the middle of a highly organized opponent.
- our attacks were a 3-4 vs 6-7 battle and theirs were the opposite.
- 5 centre backs all just stood assuming each other would deal with any danger.
- the out of position full/wingbacks not having the physical attributes to play the position and join attacks.
- a 2 man midfield against their 4 consisting of a rookie and an out of form and unfit player who needs protection to be effective.
- 3 forwards all playing through the middle of a highly organized opponent.
- our attacks were a 3-4 vs 6-7 battle and theirs were the opposite.