I don't disagree with what you have said here totally, but the amount of times this year we have given up space to attack from a defensive position is totally by design and not attitude. Mourinho has even alluded to it himself on various occasions. If this was his game plan today, then why start two attacking full-backs, along with Bale? Straight away from kick-off you could see what the system was, and also you could see that the personnel was wrong. The actual game was all about rectifying the mistakes he had made before we actually started the game. How many teams in the top half actually play two polar opposite systems?
As does Dier, as has Rodon, as has Toby. The fact of the matter is that the pickin's are pretty slim in central defence. Whoever we choose can make, and has made, mistakes. Singling out Sanchez isn't a good analysis. It's even less good because he's been doing very well of late, albeit in a short span of games. Every defender can make mistakes.
Jose is incapable of motivating them or we have too many players who are incapable of executing the game plan? You think pep will be trying to buy thel ikes of Doherty, Sissoko and Lamela in the summer becuase he sees how they are great players who just need a manager who knows how to motivate them?
Where did Jose say ‘the same players were hiding today’? I didn’t catch that in is post match interviews. But, I’m in the US, so maybe it was with a UK media source?
Wasn’t a strange game though, was it? It was a familiar game because we’ve seen it several times this season. The players can’t play this way. That’s a shared responsibility for their lack of ability to adapt to it and Mourinho’s insistence on getting them to do it when facing any team that is t scrapping at the bottom. Ultimately he just has to stop asking them to do it because their obviously failure can not then be a reason for him to throw them under the bus. It’s like asking my kids to drive themselves to primary school and then being pissed off it didn’t go well. It’s just not what they do. Might improve further down the line but until then I’ll have to find a more natural solution.
I find it difficult to pinpoint that particular aspect of his commentary over the sounds of him and Alan Smith masturbating themselves into a near-catatonic state over whichever opposition we happen to be playing that day.
Confidence and mentality are very important in football, obviously and can be one reason a performance is poor.
Yep. Pep has always been a better 'coach' in terms of maximising a system and players within it. Jose has always been better from a one off in game strategy and creating a strong mentality.
