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Match Fulham (H) - 29/11 - 8pm

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I think we were genuinely unlucky (as a team) in terms of being 0-2 down to a deflected goal and an absolutely outstanding finish (from a piece of twatty play from Vicario).

But…Setting us up in that 4222 like PSG away for Fulham at home, was piss fucking poor tactically, as they presented totally different tactical challenges. PSG was set up to counter press a possession heavy 433, not dominate ball and territory against a 4231/451.

We ended up with a kind of 424 with (as usual) no productivity from midfield, and 4 forwards stood in a horizontal line across their box.

It took Frank an hour to see that we were creating nothing, to make changes. The changes were good, and did help, by bringing Odobert on it stretched the pitch horizontally, which made it harder for Fulham to shuttle over and cover Porro/Kudus pair up, and Simon’s coming on meant we had someone dropping in and out to receive and move the ball around pulling a Fulham player out of their block line, again reducing their cover of the flanks.

Unfortunately Silva copped onto this and pretty quickly after the goal made substitutions with instructions to nullify some of the stuff we were doing which worked pretty well with fresh legs and new instructions.

The problem is if Frank had started like this knowing the type of opposition was going to be different than what we face Wednesday night we may well have got back in the game a little bit sooner.
 
When you have little confidence everything is more difficult, which is why I said must not lose more than must win.

But we are becoming too easy to play against, to easy to stop and too easy to beat.

And this season, the relegated teans may not save us. If it gets too bad.

And those people predicting big wins for us today, either don't know their football or did so for their own mischievous reasons.

Another sh!t show
 
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Dunno what to think about that - top ten would be a result for the season at this point because we ain’t hit rock bottom yet.
We are officially a mid table team - Brentford Fulham whoever that’s who we are now.
It’s a distance and the problems are too numerous and deep to mention.
Fuck it
 
koko619 said:
been a big fan of Vicario and i always just though give it time
but iam at the point of thinking he is not gonna improve
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Welcome to reality, but you are right he gets way too much credit for the amount of mistakes he makes. You want your keeper to command his area, be decent with his feet, be a decent shot stopper and make as little mistakes as possible, at best he is a decent shot stopper, nowhere near good enough without the other abilities.
 
Tio Martin said:
Who wants to come here if he knows he'll get sacked if there's any poor form in the first 15 matches and he doesn't play the kind of football that the whiners want?
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Exactly.

Unfortunately some fans seem to think we can just sack and hire freely and eventually it’ll work. They’ll cry for a certain manager, and as soon as he loses they’ll want him gone and pretend they never wanted him initially.
 
We are sinking fast and a scrap near the bottom cannot be ruled out which is a worry as there is no team unlike last season looking down and out at this early stage .Its really hard to see Frank turning things around to any great degree and am not sure what players would come to us with the state of things at the moment .Another absolutely terrible performance and result tonight .
 
Don Pedro said:
yeah i never got the danso stuff either. We hijacked wolves for him and thats probably the level he is. He wouldn't start for most prem teams.
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Yeah I think he's a bit overhyped cos he came into a team that was regularly playing Gray and Davies at CB. Compared to them he looked great.

He's basically just a completely bang average Premier League CB. Not bad or a liability, but also not exceptional in any way at all. Fine as 4th choice but next season onwards we'd be way better blooding Vuskovic over him.
 
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