We see so many managers and ex players say that the PL is all about fine margins and games won on those small percentages. If managers and coaches don’t focus on the basics and the small details like these then teams aren’t going to do well. They’re a badly managed and coached group of players. It was obvious a year ago with all the defending set piece nonsense costing us goals every week and it’s continued to fester month after month. It’s either idiocy, laziness or both.
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We see so many managers and ex players say that the PL is all about fine margins and games won on those small percentages. If managers and coaches don’t focus on the basics and the small details like these then teams aren’t going to do well. They’re a badly managed and coached group of players. It was obvious a year ago with all the defending set piece nonsense costing us goals every week and it’s continued to fester month after month. It’s either idiocy, laziness or both.
Individual errors are mostly driven by general issues caused by this fraud and his staff.
Once again nobody to grab punched ball around 16 meter after set piece.
Once again nobody to prevent cross, and nobody to track runners into penalty box. Central defenders caught out of position and nowhere near the ball or opponents.
Once again central midfielder caught in the middle of the pitch with almost no safe option to pass.
Romero fuckup - yeah that was on him. But other goals? I have seen before large part of the pieces that led to them.
Once again nobody to grab punched ball around 16 meter after set piece.
Once again nobody to prevent cross, and nobody to track runners into penalty box. Central defenders caught out of position and nowhere near the ball or opponents.
Once again central midfielder caught in the middle of the pitch with almost no safe option to pass.
Romero fuckup - yeah that was on him. But other goals? I have seen before large part of the pieces that led to them.
If you don’t concede goals, you don’t lose matches. That’s the starting point for any successful team.
When we set up constantly leaving us outnumbered on the counter (like multiple times yesterday and across the season) then you are giving up gift-wrapped chances.
And then Ange says it’s individual mistakes. Yes, they made mistakes but the system exposes them. Constantly. Throw in a lack of belief and effort and it’s no wonder we are in for 20+ losses.
When it’s fine margins, you don’t make it easy for your opponent. Yet this fucking bluffer still hasn’t worked that out.
I would have cut him a bit of slack if and I know it's a big if but we had drawn a lot of games so at least not accumulate the horrendous tally of losses even if we were mid table .No team can expect to achieve anything losing so easily as us .
But but but our possession and losing by just one goal show we are controlling games or unlucky
Or something
Not the other 20 losses this season?
Romero certainly looked like he was fucking up on purpose for the 3rd one...
The bit of the video that grinds is him describing us as qualifiers for Europe since Redknapp. We’ve been qualifying for Europe, odd season aside, since Jol.
MOTD highlights pretty much showed that the players were phoning it in
Wish I could watch the UK version but it's very difficult from outside the UK and I'm not really interested in sifting through shady russian torrent sites anymore. I even tried with VPN once but apparently they've got those covered as well :/
It’s disastrous defending at best and deliberately fucking up at worst.
please wait your call is important to us, please wait your call is important to us , please wait your call is important to us,
To paraphrase Paul O'Keefe: Ange is rationalizing (to the point of making up) outside saboteurs and other factors that impact the season in order to not have to face the real big issue: That he and his football deserves a lot of the blame.
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Spence more or less said during the Rio Ferdinand podcast that as long as the players play according to Ange's instructions, there are no consequences for losing games. They only get punished/consequences if they "break formation".
I know player ratings on here are very subjective but last season 7 of our regular players were over 6.5 average. This season it is one - Djed Spence at 6.52.
Even last season, nearly all of our highest rated players were defenders despite generally being considered to be an easy team to score against.
It is an abject failure of ownership that this situation has been allowed to persist so long.
Even last season, nearly all of our highest rated players were defenders despite generally being considered to be an easy team to score against.
It is an abject failure of ownership that this situation has been allowed to persist so long.
Watching the game yesterday Wolves would box our players in, cutting off any angles to get out or pass, they were working together in pairs or more.
Our players are constantly isolated with so much individual work to get through