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Sixth
SIXTH
6th
Just saying.
SIXTH
6th
Just saying.
- The team are currently sixth in the Premier League table. Sources have told BBC Sport that the club felt there had not been sufficient evidence of evolution or progress this season under Amorim.
This website claims that Frank doesn't know what type of player Bergvall is.
Thomas Frank said after the 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur draw with Sunderland, via The Spurs Express, “When we put Joao and Lucas on there was a lot of running and it was back and forth. Lucas has played as a 10 and is almost a like-for-like for Wilson.”
Lucas Bergvall is a robust, athletic, and box to box No. 8 who is almost a prototype of this type of player. Wilson Odobert is an elegant, technical playmaker who can play as a No. 10 or an inverted left winger. These two players could not be further from each other and are nothing alike.
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Thomas Frank said after the 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur draw with Sunderland, via The Spurs Express, “When we put Joao and Lucas on there was a lot of running and it was back and forth. Lucas has played as a 10 and is almost a like-for-like for Wilson.”
Lucas Bergvall is a robust, athletic, and box to box No. 8 who is almost a prototype of this type of player. Wilson Odobert is an elegant, technical playmaker who can play as a No. 10 or an inverted left winger. These two players could not be further from each other and are nothing alike.
Thomas Frank proved he knows nothing about Lucas Bergvall
Once again, Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank left the pitch to a chorus of boos, as the Spurs faithful in the stadium continued to chant about how poor of
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Lack of progressive passing in midfield is both a Frank and a player issue. Doesn't have to be either-or.
It's a player issue to the extent that we virtually never see any of our midfielders show the kind of urgency and enthusiasm that a 33 year old Xhaka shows in making himself available for passes from his defenders.
Compare these to this that generated a rather lengthy conversation in another thread.
Frank's part in this warrants a much longer and detailed post that I'm hoping to make at some point .
For the time being, I can repeat many people have already observed and pointed out: Players are instructed to seek mid / long range passes that bypass the midfield area altogether, in a way that Sunderland players aren't for example.
And on the relatively rare occasions that they try to pass their way out of trouble, the passes are disproportionately directed towards wide areas / players. The ball might eventually find its way to the centre, but only if the initial breakthough is achieved from a wide area. To the extent that the ball gets lost in the process, which happens quite often, midfielders won't see it.
I'm not saying there aren't tactical/motivational issues.
BUT
The biggest let down this season has been individual errors. Over and over, be it the ones that lead to us conceding goals, or smaller ones where a better pass would have led to a goal scoring opportunity.
It's happened over, and over, and over.
At least half a dozen times yesterday alone a simple pass was too challenging and it was over/under hit.
We're also playing with a team of bang average midfielders and there's nothing we can currently do to change that. Palinha, Bentancur, Gray, Bergvall, they're all atheltes and not a lot more at all. Same for Sarr when he's back.
Swap one of those for a Dembele.
Swap another for an Eriksen.
Then all of a sudden, most of Franks "tactics" are less of an issue.
"Thomas, some Spurs supporters snuck into your bedroom last night and blowtorched your nasal cavities whilst chanting 'take your eyebrows and fuck off'. What do you think the message was?"
"Mild disappointment perhaps, but I appreciate their passion. At least we're not 17th"
With 5th through 14th separated by just 4 points, 6th means very little. It will only matter after 38 matches if it stays this tight.
We were 4th when we sacked Conte, Chelsea 5th with Maresca , Utd 6th with Amorin. None are league position related, just that they all spoke out about their boards. If a manager toes the party line they can get away with a lot as we've seen last and this season.
In 24/25 our longest unbeaten run was 3 games in MW's 24/25/26
That happened once.
Outside of that, it was 2 which happened three times.
All season.
38 games.
This season we have already had two 3 match unbeaten spells.
We've already had two 2 match unbeaten runs.
There's some weird factbending going on here.
We were fucking awful last season. We were losing soooo many games and, despite what some drunken/idiotic fans say, we weren't playing good football when losing them.
No, this isn't good football.
No, I don't expect anyone to enjoy it.
But ffs stop saying we've got worse.
That happened once.
Outside of that, it was 2 which happened three times.
All season.
38 games.
This season we have already had two 3 match unbeaten spells.
We've already had two 2 match unbeaten runs.
There's some weird factbending going on here.
We were fucking awful last season. We were losing soooo many games and, despite what some drunken/idiotic fans say, we weren't playing good football when losing them.
No, this isn't good football.
No, I don't expect anyone to enjoy it.
But ffs stop saying we've got worse.
We were circling the plughole when we finally decided Ange would take us down. But he never opened his gob.
What are we doing here?
View: https://x.com/matchdcentral/status/2008132629296763357?s=46&t=LZlJuZ1uaIN4QMovCQVkvQ
View: https://x.com/matchdcentral/status/2008132629296763357?s=46&t=LZlJuZ1uaIN4QMovCQVkvQ
At what point are Frank's coaches going to work on spence, Tel & Odoberts Left foot, if these guy could control and pass with their Left (not asking for them to be come Left footers) we would be much better off
the coaches and players have all day every day surely they can set aside 30 mins a day to work with these players
its not hard its just coaching
(that is what they are paid for)
the coaches and players have all day every day surely they can set aside 30 mins a day to work with these players
its not hard its just coaching
(that is what they are paid for)
The tweet is dated 20/12 - probably about right at that time?
That being said, at no point am I suggesting Ange wasnt awful. Rather, I thought the comparison was interesting.
Ange was awful, but at that point - probably doing better than Frank now - goes to show just how bad Frank is (IMO)
Actually, I think the opposite. The squad wasn't as good as we like to think, and was competing in a weak EPL where all the major teams were going through transition.
Vertonghen, Lloris. Toby, Kane, Son, Dele, Eriksen, Dembele, Tripper the stand outs. But you also trash like Rose, Aurier, Jansen, Lamela, Wanyama, N'jie, Fazio, Wimmer, walker Peters, Nkoudu, Sissoko, Winks, Skipp
I don’t have the answers. I’ve been very consistent for Glasner. Personally think he will go to United.
Maresca and Amorim knew what they were doing.
Waiting for Slot to be available?
It was probably right then, but after that we went down the shitter rapidly.
And Ange was on his 2nd season and wasn't trying to undo the mess he made when he normalised losing.
Carrick - he can go down with them as a coach after doing so as a player.