Where’s the fun in that , win , win, win , win, win, booooooooring
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Match TSG 1899 Hoffenheim v Tottenham Hotspur | Thursday 23rd January | Rhein-Neckar Arena | 17:45
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At least. Maybe even after the second goal, second half
We won!
I personally have never heard Ange asking CDMs to cover for FBs on forward runs. Are you sure he has said that's part of the method?
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I don't know what happened for that goal but what SHOULD happen when he inverts and stays high, is the CMs rotate.
The lads were Unlucky
Did their best to throw it away and lose again but came up a bit short
Wasn't to be
We move onto the next one
Hate to kick a man when he's down or to scapegoat any player but my main takeaway from that game is that Dragusin is just not good enough. We can't build up with him. He either passes it back or kicks it away. I actually found myself sighing every time the ball came to him because I knew that was the end of our build up. I'd have him well behind Ben Davies and Archie Gray in the CB pecking order now and can't see him playing much once VDV are Romero are back. He's just nowhere near this level on the ball. He's a bag of nerves. Good defender, physical and good in the air but useless with the ball at his feet and he can't play at this level at all.
Ok. And who are you putting in the middle of the pitch for Bentancur’s spot?
Why would he say that? You want him to openly talk about the positional rotations in his tactics? which journalist would even ask that question?
But if you watch the FBs when they invert and play high, then watch who is in the positions they have left, I'm pretty sure I see it being the 6 or 8 on that side, unless they are out of position and the CB goes but then the 6 should rotate into the space left by the CB.
Should have been loads easier but the result is what matters.
Good(ish) for morale, a draw will probably see us top 8. It's all about limping along as best we can till the big boys come back.
Good(ish) for morale, a draw will probably see us top 8. It's all about limping along as best we can till the big boys come back.
I think you're talking about something completely different here.
On both occasions our full backs didn't invert, I'm just talking about when they pressed and vacated their positions and left a load of space in the channel...the CM's can't do much if the full backs have sprinted out and the ball gets transitioned over quickly, one ball into that channel kills the midfield which happens against Liverpool.
The way we’ve played this season, nothing is written in stone.
I'm really not. We are not the only team to have such busy schedules. But our players are constantly everywhere covering every blade of grass. Against Tamworth it's the same. It doesn't matter the opponents, we expanded our energy so much with very poor returns recently.
I'm glad we won today. But somehow the frantic nature of our players always in burst of energy is getting me really worried our injured players are not getting back in time to cover our current players, who run risk of getting injured themselves or having performance hit.
My point being we can be a highly pressing team without being so draining. If I'm honest Ange ball is a mess currently with no pacing and rhythm in the game. IMO we are so short in numbers, so all the more we should be pacing ourselves and controlling the throughput. This is what bothers me about Ange at the moment.
Troy Parrot scored the lone goal for Alkmar in a 1-0 win over Roma. Good for him!
Ok- it's supposition then. And perhaps true- but if they really are being coached to do that, my god has it been slow to come about.