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I reckon it will be the Liverpool game if we get humiliated.
Don't think I could take that. A) because of the club, but b) wasn't it them who finished off AVB with a 5-0 drubbing?
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I reckon it will be the Liverpool game if we get humiliated.
Just so im clear here...
Everything good, like reaching the CL final, repeated top 4 finishes is all down to Poch.
Everything bad, like really poor form, getting humiliated by Bayern, dull tactics and football, is somehow all down to Levy.
How does that work again?
The tactic requires a high level of fitness so maybe he should focus on his fitness levels instead of whining about it. That's why they get paid a fortune.When players, such as Sissoko, are calling out the diamond tactic in the media, then it’s a big problem and just confirms dressing room unrest.
Poch won’t bin the tactic, he will just rotate the players who play in it.
The tactic requires a high level of fitness so maybe he should focus on his fitness levels instead of whining about it. That's why they get paid a fortune.
I lose sympathy for him when I see the 80 grand a week he gets paidThey're not machines mate - Sissoko is arguably the fittest players at the club.
I lose sympathy for him when I see the 80 grand a week he gets paid
The tactic requires a high level of fitness so maybe he should focus on his fitness levels instead of whining about it. That's why they get paid a fortune.
@Joshua shepherd Disagree with posts by all means but please at least post your opinion or what about the post you disagree with. It could help expand my own knowledge rather than just clicking disagree
The most boring of arguments debated with football fans.I lose sympathy for him when I see the 80 grand a week he gets paid
The most boring of arguments debated with football fans.
What has money got to do with this?
Don't think I could take that. A) because of the club, but b) wasn't it them who finished off AVB with a 5-0 drubbing?
Fair enough. Perhaps the formation is dead in terms of use but I would expect professionals getting paid a fortune to be fit enough to handle it but I guess a few are getting on a bit in ageSorry shorthand, I’d never get anything done if I had to explain why I disagreed with something in this forum.
2 reasons I disagreed, firstly I can’t recall a team playing the diamond for a number of years, not consistently with success anyway.
And secondly clearly the diamond isn’t just about skill, it’s about physical demands, winks Eriksen etc don’t have the physical prowess to implement it successfully hence why we concede far too many goals.
Pay me that much and I will run till I collapse without complaint.The most boring of arguments debated with football fans.
What has money got to do with this?
I lose sympathy for him when I see the 80 grand a week he gets paid
The tactic requires a high level of fitness so maybe he should focus on his fitness levels instead of whining about it. That's why they get paid a fortune.
We've always played narrow.The players ran through walls for Poch in his first two seasons, and that was when we used the press. We didn’t press in a diamond formation though.
Now we play narrow and the likes of Sissoko and Winks are expected to press wide and narrow. Doesn’t work...
I don't think there is much wrong with Sissoko's fitness levels.
4-4-2 Diamond is a standard formation in Italy. Lyon played it last season, so Ndombele knows how to play within it. It normally requires a lot from fullbacks (like wingbacks in 3-5-2), but not from midfielders - they don't need to cover that much space because they're close to almost anybody on the pitch.
It's a formation for controlling the centre and being unpredictable on the wings.
So... what's about our diamond that it requires so much from our midfielders? That they openly say they don't have the fitness to play it?
Either the implementation is wrong, or our fitness levels are just bad.