Thing is we give up 20 plus attempts on our goal nearly every game whilst creating f all our selves.
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Management Ange Postecoglou
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He had Reguillon on the bench, who was criminally neglected all seasons - even when he had few players on the ground. He put an 18 year old in a semi final against Gakpo, and Spence against Salah. Oh look a goal and an assist each.
Had Biss in that lineup too, so could have easily - heaven forbid - had some tactical nouse to use him to drop back into a 5-3-2.
Sherwood looks like Sun Tzu compared to Ange, whose tactical flexibility is basically like the slider on an old version of Championship Manager that is the same formation, just with either "Ultra Defensive" or "Gung-ho" extremities, with nothing inbetween
We were pretty good in the EL final til we scored. Then the shittest of shithouse Jose ball specials ever
I’m not sure you have ever watched a Royal Rumble Mrs P.
But to get you up to speed.
Arthur Rowe tries a surprise push-and-run on Venables—but Harry sees it coming and tips Rowe over the ropes! (Elimination #12: Arthur Rowe)
(Clearly Venables and Redknapp have formed a tag team. The WideBoys.)
and
Keith Burkinshaw—He’s grappling with Ange Postecoglou near the ropes. Ange, fired up after eliminating George Graham earlier, channels that aggression and uses a running big boot to send Keith over the top rope! (Elimination #13: Keith Burkinshaw)
Harsh on the two legends but according to Mr Chat this is what would happen. Or possibly has happened in an alternate universe.
Lol what? It was 50/50 at best. What had we created or done that made us pretty good? Both sides were passing the ball immediately back to the other team.
Neither side played well in that final for any period of the game.
Your answer. To how we could have made a 1-0 hold up at Anfield. Is Sergio Reguilon.
Jesus Wept.
Ho ho ho.
So much less funny than "why don't I play that cauliflower-headed teenager against Gakpo, mate?"
4 goals later...
I was elated to finally win a trophy but it might well be the shittest game of football I've ever watched, and having had Sky Sports as a nipper I've watched plenty a match of the old Stoke v Bolton kind of quality out of sheer boredom.
I mean fine, and I do agree, but this all circles back to the wisdom that
A. we were most likely fucked no matter what we did
B. our only real hope was to play our football as expansively as we could and try to hurt them and generate chances
We had no bus to park in that game. United was a different story.
(Yes, I am aware I have argued myself out of my own post like an hour ago. I contain multitudes.)
I didn't say park the bus. I said shithousery.
There's a huge difference, and it is one that we have come up often enough under ange for him to know it. Woolwich have spent 4 seasons finishing in the top 4 with it. We've seen Vicario suffer from it.
It's a tall order at Anfield with all our youth and inexperience.
And our Dark Artist Extraordinaire Romero unavailable.
We shithoused United brilliantly though.
I just wish the club would announce their decision one way or another now. It’s becoming tedious waiting for Levy to make his mind up
I actually think, quite remarkably, that he'll not sack Ange. I read something today, obvs some ITK which of course has every chance of being pure nonsense, but to me it felt in my loins....like it had some truth to it....which is that Levy isn't ready to pull the trigger because the players are have such great faith in him as a manager. Weird times....I just wish the club would announce their decision one way or another now. It’s becoming tedious waiting for Levy to make his mind up
Ange has accumulated a lot of soft power at the club because none of Levy, Lange or Munn are dominant personalities. So the inmates run the asylum in a sense.I actually think, quite remarkably, that he'll not sack Ange. I read something today, obvs some ITK which of course has every chance of being pure nonsense, but to me it felt in my loins....like it had some truth to it....which is that Levy isn't ready to pull the trigger because the players are have such great faith in him as a manager. Weird times....
This is not a slight on either of those three in terms of the job that they are actually doing. But I can't see none of them acting as any sort of counterweight to Ange in regards to the football. Or hold him and his decisions/methods accountable.
Thankfully, by all accounts, we have one such man on the way.
Glasner turns at least half the defeats into draws, and at least a couple draws into wins. I think he'd have 17 or so more points than Ange- at least 55pts for the season, which would have left us in 8th-11th place- throw in two more wins and he gets 61 points, which would have qualified us for EL.
I rate Glasner as a vastly better coach than Ange.
Damn such a shame we didn't qualify for EL and we have to settle for CL instead.
He was desperate to win points in the league up until around the 2nd leg of the Frankfurt game. Only at that point did I really notice him prioritizing EL over PL. He even tried that weird 5-2-3 formation to try and get some better defensive performance but it totally backfired on him as he doesn't appear to know how to teach or coach those kind of tactics.
He's most certainly tried to adjust the narrative by casting his campaign as purely based on EL. He's tried to distract from his complete inability to secure PL points.
Yeah it was real genius to shithouse the worst United team in generations. Amazing stuff.
I just wish the club would announce their decision one way or another now. It’s becoming tedious waiting for Levy to make his mind up
He doesn't need to announce that an under contract manager is staying, but obviously if he wants to fire and overweight conman, fraud who knows more about the mating of kangaroos than football he will.
My guess is next week.
All players gone, final pay agreed, EL excitement subsided and Aussie Joe throwing scrimp on the barbee in some far off place.
Super. We have a guy who’s glammed onto Levy like a succubus and despite having a decent eye for a player has never ever shown any talent for putting together a well-balanced team or squad. Juve got worse and worse when Marotta left and he was put in charge. And we’ve been a mess for years.Ange has accumulated a lot of soft power at the club because none of Levy, Lange or Munn are dominant personalities. So the inmates run the asylum in a sense.
This is not a slight on either of those three in terms of the job that they are actually doing. But I can't see none of them acting as any sort of counterweight to Ange in regards to the football. Or hold him and his decisions/methods accountable.
Thankfully, by all accounts, we have one such man on the way.
A guy whose PR far outweighs his track record.