We had more of the ball against Wolves and lost ... Yeah.
If we were doing that then I'd make you right, but there's no chasing, no press whatsoever.
And goals
Yeah we are quite generous in that respect
It's all speculation, but you can never underestimate mental exhaustion. It's amazing how well a team can perform when their confidence is high, look at Wolves if nowhere else, they've played more games than anyone this season, yet they always seem to get stronger as a game goes on, regardless of whether they are losing or drawing. They have belief and confidence, which helps to shrug off any physical tiredness they may feel.
I've played for some very good teams in my time, with one we went 2 full seasons unbeaten, won the lot. Then a couple of players moved on and we lost our main midfielder to injury (me) and our striker got jailed lol. The team fell apart then because the belief and confidence evaporated. Players who could run all day suddenly looked like they'd aged 10 years overnight.
The game is mostly in the head, you never feel tired if, in your head, you believe you're going to go out there and perform. We started to get that going initially, but then any confidence gains took huge blows when we lost both Kane and Son. You can see this just in the rank finishing weve5seen since Son got injured, no one really believes in themselves to finish and we're suffering as a result. This cascades to the defence, who don't believe we can score enough to win, so are under massive pressure to stop the opposition scoring. This leads to indecision, fear of mistakes and the errors come back.
Whilst I honestly believe JM will bring us success, I've never seen him as a miracle worker. The setbacks that he and the team have had to endure would test any manager, which is why I'm not subscribing to this idea that a "progressive manager," whatever that means, would fare any better or have us playing with any more flair. Again that's just an opinion, but it's as valid as any.
The main point I'm making, which has been made and ignored on here time and time again, is that the only remedy I can see at this point in time is time. Time for the team to reset their mindset, time to work on his processes with a preseason, time to implement whatever new ideas he has, time for the injured players to get back to fitness and for us to integrate any new additions.
He may well still fail, but no one can categorically state at this point in time, with the issues we currently have, that it will go one way or the other.
I don't hold out any hope that those blinded by hatred of him will take an ounce of interest in what I've posted, but you never know.
Let me see, is this a trick question? I imagine the reason could not be that he wasn't fit ON WEDNESDAY?
Where's your evidence that it's going to get worse? Is that a crystal ball that Ossie's sitting on in your profile pic?
A valid point. How long would it take to get over that? How long would it take to get over that when week-in, week-out poor results occur that may well exacerbate it?
I agree in hindsight I wish we had never reached that final it would literally have been better.
Mate this was apparent before Jose even came in
I think it's a valid time that they could be tired at this point.
Don't be silly, ES - it's just Mourinho playing tricks with your mind. He's a Sith Lord, you see...
As losing creates a lack of confidence winning games instils it so they need to start winning games.
