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Manager Thomas Frank

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Are you Frank Out or In?

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LeParisien said:
You’ve had some wild takes over the past year. It’s been tough for all of us, I guess.

But you’re right on this. Frank had an excellent game plan. It should have worked.Even Luis Enrique said they didn’t deserve to win.

But you cannot sit back for the last 30 minutes and expect to hold on against top sides. You have to have a plan for when you win the ball and we didn’t have one. It was just attack against defence.
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I thought the Tel/Kudus sub was strange. Odobert would have offered similar qualities to Kudus, ability to carry the ball forwards and more threat on the counter.

But even more damaging was we just stopped putting any pressure on the ball, even in deep areas. People were moaning about Solanke and Tel but we were no longer trying to even win the ball to create counters, and when we did get the ball, options were scarce.
 
Richard Arlison said:
And that hour did also coincide with PSG playing like their first game back…

That’s just reality.

It’s also realistic that the pressing caused them big problems until we stopped. Sarr, Kudus, Spence and Danso also showed us they are 100% CL level players which we didn’t know as well.
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Sarr has good physical qualities and was useful when we were pressing, but less so when we weren’t as he doesn’t really excel at footbally stuff, passing, carrying, progressing.

Good athlete, great attitude, meh footballer IMO.
 
bus-conductor said:
I thought the Tel/Kudus sub was strange. Odobert would have offered similar qualities to Kudus, ability to carry the ball forwards and more threat on the counter.

But even more damaging was we just stopped putting any pressure on the ball, even in deep areas. People were moaning about Solanke and Tel but we weren’t no longer trying to even win the ball to create counters, and when we did get the ball, options were scarce.
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Exactly. Fully agree.

We had 8-10 men behind the ball with no press until the final third.

PSG are a simply ridiculous team on the ball and you can’t do that for 30 minutes against them. They’re too good. You might get away with it. You might shop two goals.
 
5purs said:
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Watching Tv Kerry GIF by Gogglebox Australia
 
Richard Arlison said:

View: https://x.com/jon_mackenzie/status/1955783393574314160?s=46&t=fbqxNuG9CT4qTaiJx8mBjg

So, they’ve chosen their narrative of attack for our new coach already.

Basically any time we drop points, the conversation will be about overusing a low block
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Well and it's interesting in a sense that it's not even so much about just being in a low block all the time, but defending very high and then retreating way, way back.

We saw some of that yesterday, way, way Klopp-core up the pitch attacking them from goal kicks, which we did extremely well (gigantic caveat of an opponent with no fitness and no preparation), then retreating to the top of the box.
 
FightingIllini said:
Well and it's interesting in a sense that it's not even so much about just being in a low block all the time, but defending very high and then retreating way, way back.

We saw some of that yesterday, way, way Klopp-core up the pitch attacking them from goal kicks, which we did extremely well (gigantic caveat of an opponent with no fitness and no preparation), then retreating to the top of the box.
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Loved that press and the intelligence of it.

Very encouraging.

The deep block lost us the game though
 
Raf said:
Do people still care about football nerds?

I stopped noticing them when they got it horribly wrong on the likes of Ten Hag, De Zerbi and Potter.
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I remember the nerds back in the day being overcome with nerdy, statistical joy about the Ramos and AVB appointments but were appalled by the Redknapp one. Seemed fairly lukewarm on Poch as well. Like the rest of us they dont have a clue, its as much about luck as judgement. Right place, right time.
 
FightingIllini said:
Well and it's interesting in a sense that it's not even so much about just being in a low block all the time, but defending very high and then retreating way, way back.

We saw some of that yesterday, way, way Klopp-core up the pitch attacking them from goal kicks, which we did extremely well (gigantic caveat of an opponent with no fitness and no preparation), then retreating to the top of the box.
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I love it- that’s what real tactics look like
 
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