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Manager Thomas Frank
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I get that mate... maybe he needs more time and I've now changed my mind about how much of a miss Madders is. Not having him is certainly an issue until Simons can find some form.
I didn’t mention xg.
You’re acting like they are bottom after 20 games, not 5. They’ve played better than their league position suggests. They’ve played city and gone away to Newcastle and Bournemouth too.
Just as Liverpool have been lucky to win so many games despite not playing well.
Luck plays a significant part in the results of a low scoring game. You need a bigger sample of games to decide how good a team is.
No you're alright...
what’s really fucking us up is not being clinical enough , on another day we go in 2 or 3 nil up at half time and we are thinking about CL the second half and starting to rest players , we were spoilt with Kane and Sonny for to long and as much as Richie tries he is just not consistent enough to be our first choice!
Frank just needs to play Simon’s in the MF 3. Based on his team selections he’d probably be shunting Maddison out on the left wing as well
Wolves had the best chance of the first half for Doherty. All the Kudus chances were offside and he went offside early for the Udogie situation as well.
We have a good coach here. It’s still early days.
That said, I always thought that the home matches against low blocks was gonna be his greatest challenge this season. He’s never had this challenge before in his career. Even when teams came deeper against Brentford in the Championship it was a different level of quality and coaching.
The style of football he’s mastered in the last 5 years can take us far this season away from home and in Europe, but he’s got to evolve a more pro-active style at home.
That said, I always thought that the home matches against low blocks was gonna be his greatest challenge this season. He’s never had this challenge before in his career. Even when teams came deeper against Brentford in the Championship it was a different level of quality and coaching.
The style of football he’s mastered in the last 5 years can take us far this season away from home and in Europe, but he’s got to evolve a more pro-active style at home.
It must be a stubbornness with managers nowadays to not do the obvious or admit you got selection and tactics wrong and change it. Neither Simons or Madders are left wingers and if we see either there again then Frank is clearly seeing something nobody else is.
What was with Kudus yesterday , he isn’t exactly a prolific goal scorer yet we seemed to be relying on him to score ? Don’t get me wrong If his offside goal wasn’t offside that’s a lovely bit of football but it was like In the first half we had nothing else up our sleeve apart from hope Kudus can score.
Playing too safe when we could go more aggressive in the team selection but with Xavi clearly still adjusting to PL needs do these last 2 draws turn to losses with a more exposed defence? It was a huge issue under Ange, I think if we're still seeing performances like this in the 2nd half of the season when fitness levels are optimal and new signings are properly bedded in it's more a cause for worry, right now I think we are just seeing Frank applying the most pragmatic approach to early success which is effective if not pretty. It's certainly becoming more of a trend to play ugly to get a result as a top side now, City tried it away at Utd, Slot has been accused of boring football, Arteta is Pulis in disguise, could be a sign of a larger trend in top level football to be more risk-averse.
Xavi in the 10 turned one of those draws from a loss.
So often yesterday Romero looked up and CM was just vacated. He played some wonderful crossfield pings to get us wide but Wolves 3-5-2
killed the wide areas for us. If Xavi was already settled and in rhythm playing centrally, coming to get the ball from the CBs occasionally, he’d have carried the ball and passed the ball through the spaces vacated in the middle IMO
It’s an issue.
Either that or everyone else is wrong and the thing we want to happen isn’t the fix we think it is.
For me he's doing a few odd things that need cutting out.
Bergvall as a number 10 - total waste of his ability to drive us up the field
Simons as a lw - total waste of a potentially very good number 10
Shunting Johnson into the team at the expense of shape or other players.
Playing bentancur and Palhinha as a defensive double pivot at home to the worse team in The league is diabloical.
He's a smart guy, I trust he'll address all these
Bergvall as a number 10 - total waste of his ability to drive us up the field
Simons as a lw - total waste of a potentially very good number 10
Shunting Johnson into the team at the expense of shape or other players.
Playing bentancur and Palhinha as a defensive double pivot at home to the worse team in The league is diabloical.
He's a smart guy, I trust he'll address all these
Maybe he thinks he needs to get up to Prem speed before moving him centrally?
I know we were all calling for him to be moved centrally yesterday, but when he was he seemed to disappear completely and we were too open, so maybe Frank has a reason behind it?
The header was offside? I missed that.
Over half of Wolves’ xG was their goal. Remove the goals and we had much better chances. Udogie going through didnt even register on xG so I am not relying on that.
He'll win something in his second season, mate.
It's who he is...
Our so called "striker" does bugger all so somebody has to take the reins....