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To be fair. Ben Davies was excellent last night. It could be that the VDV injury brings BD back in @ LCB and then Ange has to adapt and let Davies sit deep while the others push up to compensate for the lack of speed. It probably is no more insane than that run back in a panic tactic that is dubious at best.
We have a flexible manager - I’m sure he will adapt the style of play according to the players available, like any good manager
We will see. Always a worry when you see a player clearly distressed about an injury he's picked up.
What are you proposing, we only let him sprint 3 times a game? He’s got iffy hamstrings, he had hamstring issues at his last club too.
He wouldn't ne forced to rely on if we made a few tactical and positional adjustments and switched emphasis. We'd also be harder to beat...
Honest question - did you notice how high City’s line was last night? All their defenders had to make recovery runs too. Seems to have worked quite well for them over the past 5 years or so
Pep and Klopp often leave 2 at the back and push their fullbacks into midfield. Nothing wrong with a high line when the players are good enough to pull it off.
Not playing with such a high line is probably the most obvious solution. Micky needs to wisen up too. He's only 23.
And Varane averaged 20 games a season for Madrid. Finished at 30
Not sure we should change our system just to accommodate one players dodgy hamstrings.
Was at Real for 10 seasons...8 of those he played more than 30 games (across all comps)...had 5 seasons with circa 45 games. Not too shabby considering he also had to compete with Sergio Ramos & Pepe. Also has 90+ caps for France. Won numerous titles for club and country, and most strikers who faced him during that time said he was one of the best defenders ever.
Honest answer. Did you notice Manchester cities 2 billion pound spend over the last few years? This should be like a new Gowins law thing, when anyone uses Manchester city to illustrate a point they immediately invalidate said point. OTAMENDI,DIAS, MENDY, WALKER, STONES, CANCELO, AKE, AKANJI, GRAVIDOL, LAPORTE, LEWIS, BRAITHWAITE, GOMEZ... This shouldn't with all due respect take Holmes and Watson. But hey if you think this is an equitable assessment of why their highline works as opposed to us, when we have wielded the titans Emerson Royal and Eric Dier in a similar period then we fundamentally see football differently. It's not the same damn thing.
