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Management Ange Postecoglou

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Another sliding doors moment in Ange's managerial career with this game. If Eddie Howe hadn't have rejected Celtic's overtures and joined Newcastle instead, Celtic wouldn't have taken a punt on Ange, who wouldn't have become Spurs manager after his successful stint in Scotland and beaten him today.
 
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Starks said:
"Ange doesn't change it up... "

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The philosophy was the same, but the players and where they played were different.
The worst example of a coach who doesn't change anything was Conte and his 11 starting the same formation game after game after game no matter how poor they were previously.
 
The stand out difference between yesterday and Thursday was having a left footer on the left, a right footer on the right and Kulu through the middle.
Son went round the outside for 2 of our goals, whereas nobody was even capable of that against West Ham. Johnson, although not really contributing with a goal or assist was keeping the Newcastle left side honest with his pace and danger. And when either of them did penetrate the Newcastle back line, they put dangerous balls in where Richie, Udogie, Sarr and Porro were on the follow up.

Contrast that with Thursday, where Kulusevski was ushered out on to his weak right sided and did nothing, Johnson on the left was lost and marked out of the game and Son was isolated
 
Tomo said:
This reminds me so much of Klopp’s first season at Pool.

The mad way of playing, the fight and mental strength of the manager (Ange is far less a prick though), the squad that is part suited and part not suited to the task and thus the up and down results.

Today was great, next game we might lose and given our bad injury luck this up and down will be our season. But I have no doubt we have the right manager for the job, club need to properly back him and club/levy/fans need to be patient as this season is clearly a building one due to the issue with the squad and our absurd injury luck.
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And the understatement of the Year award goes to ...........
 
Starks said:
I saw a long ball.

Apparently we don't do that.
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I did comment once that I don't think I'd seen Vicario kick a ball as far as the halfway line before yesterday,.
But we do play long balls. Sons goal against City came from a Kulu 40 yard diagonal. Most of the 5 we got against Burnley came from them too.

When we don't do it (like West Ham, like some of the games we just scraped a win) I can't for the life of me figure out if it's under orders or the players are just off the pace.
 
eldorado said:
Be specific, what did he do wrong? And what did he do right?

Right now, it's a simple paradigm; one that only becomes apparent AFTER the game, with hindsight...

Manager does stuff, team loses...he got it wrong
Manager does stuff, team wins...he finally got it right

The system creates possession and chances...it's still up the individuals to finish them
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Well the Chelsea game does not need explaining. Then for 2 games after that he replaced maddisin for hojbjerg and skipp which was a huge error when lo celso was sitting on the bench. On top of that he played Johnson out of position which he was clearly not comfortable with. Persisted with that front 3 in those positions when we were getting in to positions but not scoring. He gave dier another chance and dier proceeded to do what dier does at the end of the wolves game. Yesterday he put everybody where they needed to be to get the best out of the squad and its probably the best full game I've seen us play over the last 2 seasons possibly more.
 
He said in retrospect since the Chelsea game with the decimation of the team he may have been a little hard on the players. I take that as being in respect to continuing with the same strategy despite not really having the players to implement it.
 
Yiddy said:
Well the Chelsea game does not need explaining. Then for 2 games after that he replaced maddisin for hojbjerg and skipp which was a huge error when lo celso was sitting on the bench. On top of that he played Johnson out of position which he was clearly not comfortable with. Persisted with that front 3 in those positions when we were getting in to positions but not scoring. He gave dier another chance and dier proceeded to do what dier does at the end of the wolves game. Yesterday he put everybody where they needed to be to get the best out of the squad and its probably the best full game I've seen us play over the last 2 seasons possibly more.
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Hopefully it shows that he's been "trial and error-ing" his way through this and has finally started to settle on things.

With no Maddison for the rest of December and possibly January, Kulu has to be the man in the middle as the 10. We can't keep putting him out on the right and watch him struggle.
 
Yiddy said:
Not at all. I said after the Chelsea game something needed to change. I'm pissed off it's taken 5 games to do it but he's finally got it right. I could make a few points but I don't really want to get negative because I'm delighted with how we played and the result today.
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He got it right for the Villa match and the City match.

I think he can be questioned on the Wolves match and possibly the West Ham one.
 
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