Well yes it seems to be. But it's not that we can't put 11 talented players out there is it. It's their attitude and application of whatever tactics they've been given. And I'd rather this was addressed instead of changing manager. i.e. root out the trouble makers and get rid rather than change to a new manager (with IMHO a much worse 'A' game) and hope that they respondBoth managers have struggled with the same personnel. A pattern emerging perchance?
Interesting but I think JM is trying to play to each player's strength.i don’t think it’s this simple. Whoever plays DM is on hiding to nothing for two reasons. The front players don’t press effectively enough and then regularly just saunter back leaving the DM to put out multiple fires. Secondly this stupid lopsided formation Jose is playing means one of the CMsalways needs to go out and cover the right side due to Aurier’s forays forward. This means the other CM is left to be outnumbered in the centre of the pitch.
I feel we need to get the balance right between possession football and counter-attacking direct football. We’ve gone too far towards the latter recently and just don’t seem to have any control of the match.Culminating in the shit shows we saw against Man U and Chelsea.
More intelligent and technical players we can fit in the side, the more quality we will have going forward and less chances to be consistently countered on. We’ve just go to be more coherent and purposeful rather than turning each match into a end-to-end pinball match because that’s a sure fire way to drop points.
Winks and Sissoko banned for the next game, wooo
Better once the footballers came on. Probably the best spell of football we've seen from us in what, 3 games? Tragic really.Terrible game. 3 pts is 3 pts tho.
RacistHighlight was defiantly all the Koreans who came to not be able to watch Son play ??
I feel Winks is getting unfair flak. First half he actually looked like he gave a shit. Other players were worse and put in much less effort.
Having said that, the second half looked like a proper midfield. Imagine having a third ball player like Ndombele with Eriksen and Celso in there with a proper DM sitting deep.
Sigh.
Since when has whether a bunch of people on an Internet forum can keep up with someone been the yardstick to measure if a player is good enough?Nobody on this forum could stay with Sissoko on a football pitch but are very quick to slate him.
His running hurts teams.
I agree to an extent but he was lucky to not see red today. Should def have seen a second yellow before being subbed (that said first yellow was unlucky).I feel Winks is getting unfair flak. First half he actually looked like he gave a shit. Other players were worse and put in much less effort.
Having said that, the second half looked like a proper midfield. Imagine having a third ball player like Ndombele with Eriksen and Celso in there with a proper DM sitting deep.
Sigh.
ThisWell we’ve scrapped in the 2nd half and got the result. Looked so much better when GLC came on. Please give us some creativity in midfield Jose.
Yea looks injuredDo we need to be worried about Dele? Didn’t look too happy at the end?
I agree to an extent but he was lucky to not see red today. Should def have seen a second yellow before being subbed (that said first yellow was unlucky).
It was very unlucky. The guy simply collapsed. Winks was understandably upset
He dived in, that's the point, you're always risking a booking when you dive in.
good at going forward!? He is so poor at attacking, slows things down, no trick, 8/10 of his balls in are atrocious. Guy is so poor. His positional sense as well is comical. Guy ends up closing down the opposition's right back!!!!!!! Trippier wasn't much better but his crossing ability helped cover up his poor positional sense and lack of pace.Interesting but I think JM is trying to play to each player's strength.
So Aurier is good at going forward but poor defender and marking. So he tries and find the cover which is a big gap.
I think as we all see and in his mind JM knows that this squad is outdated and with many frailties but with some outstanding players who he rates highly like Kane and Alli.
It will take him a season or two to get the right balance. I personally think he's doing the best he can with what he's got at the moment.