Bet you were this defensive when Conte was the manager and he supposedly didn’t adapt his system to the likes of Royal and Sessegnon. You’re a hypocrite.
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I've said it all season. Our players are tactically naive and dont know how to play through games. It is why I think we need more experience in the squad.
Not going for Wharton instead looks a huge error. As lots of us who'd seen him play said, he was worth the purchase. Feels like another Bergwijn/Bowen situation.
Celtic: Journalist slams Ange Postecoglou’s men for set-piece defending
Celtic have developed a weak spot under Ange Postecoglou of defending set plays, according to The Athletic journalist Kieran Devlin.thisisfutbol.com
This makes it even worse. He knows he's got a problem and he doesnt face up to it!
Analysing Celtic's set-piece struggles: Lack of aggression, zonal marking and Hart not commanding his six-yard box
Half of the goals that Celtic have conceded in the league this season have come from set pieces, and teams will be targeting their weakness
theathletic.com
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He probably did. Starks/Totti is a performative happy clapper. What he does is finds the most popular narrative of the moment (the one which will earn him the most likes/agrees which make him happy inside) and spams it repeatedly.
When Conte was here he was all in, till he was unpopular. Full on 'I love him, full trust in him, Conte till I die'. I remember questioning the way we were playing 2nd season under Conte and Totti completely disagreeing because the results hadn't swung yet. Of course when it became popular to dislike him, he was all over it.
Totti will turn on Ange the second turning on Ange becomes popular. And his dad will become a fan of whatever team our new manager used to manage. It's what he does.
Analysing Celtic's set-piece struggles: Lack of aggression, zonal marking and Hart not commanding his six-yard box
Half of the goals that Celtic have conceded in the league this season have come from set pieces, and teams will be targeting their weakness
He needs to be willing and able to adjust.
Look at the evolution of Pep. His basic philosophy has not changed, but he has evolved to address opponents that find weaknesses in his system.
When opponents figured out a way to make it difficult for his team to play out of the back, he added a long ball element that took advantage of his players’ qualities. Ederson sometimes passes over the pressing defenders to an OPEN man and does so with quality, thus he is not lumping the ball over like so many shit English sides like to do.
Pep has evolved over and over but kept his basic philosophy intact.
That’s called having a brain and not being naive.
The PL has adjusted to Angeball. He needs to adjust back. Doesn’t mean he abandons his principles. It means he evolves.
Unless of course your luck is in.....had one for free the other day.
Throw the cunt out the way before the ball is kicked and highlight it to the ref.
Mate...its never for free, you always pay, one way or the other.
Speak for yourself Mate......unless it's full of course.
What manage has ever gone into a big club and completely changed their own philosophy and the way they've coached?
I don't think that is the case.
Porro and Udogie weren't considered full backs in a back four and he made them work. At some point in the season, both were considered to be the best performing full backs in the league...
I think he saw plenty that fit his philosophy.
But you can only get the full picture when you're here and you've seen them perform over a period of time.
This whole season is a test for the players. Can you be brave? Can you play the way Ange wants you to? Do you stack up?
I'm going to assume by the reports we're looking for a new 6, wide players and a striker. They haven't.
Isnt that what we're doing?
We brought in Vicario who's alot better with the ball at his feet than Lloris was. We got van de Ven in who's the perfect centre back for the system.. Even Werner is the right profile for the system, just not of the level needed to take us to a higher level.
Bergvall coming in who seems to fit. We've been linked with the likes of Nusa, Williams, Eze. Again all players that suit.
You dont go to a new club with the idea of changing the entire philosophy and mentality just to pussy out during a rough patch.
Just like you don't go to a new club and sell the entire squad in the first window. Said it before I reckon Ange would happily get rid of 3/4s of this team if he could.
It's not a cop out at all.
Spurs quite clearly struggle with two main things. Set pieces and a lack of technical ability across the squad.
Both of these things can quite easily be addressed in the summer that would put us in good stead going into the new season.
It been a stop start season full of injuries, suspensions, international tournaments, long breaks between games to allow for zero momentum with an added toxicity whenever we lose before a long break.
I'm hoping we can end the season strong, get to the summer, get the right profiles in to give us a better chance, get rid of those not suited and go into the new season full of optimism after hopefully a good pre season of integrating some youngsters into the side.
Ha ha! There's loads on here like that. Like a bunch of bleating sheep they'll follow which ever path seems the most popular at the time and gets the most likes.
Poch in Poch out
Conte in Conte out
Levy in Levy out.
#BackNuno #FuckNuno
There's one particular poster that switches between full on love for Levy to vehement Levy out depending on which poster is pissing him off at the time
Bahhh
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I think it was 4 actually.
Add to that Postie waving the white flag before a ball had even been kicked.
Shambles all over
Biggest thing Pep did is with the full backs. Cancelo and Zinchenko are technically good enough but not physically good enough for the league so he sold them. They have Walker, Ake, Akanji, Gvardiol who can cover. He did this due to City getting caught with wide counter attacks. He also pushed Stones into midfield for extra creativity which helped due to Haaland being a very limited player build up wise.
Issue we have is we don’t yet have a squad built for his system so we have not even got to that stage yet if we ever do.
Well let’s give it a go but you’d have thought he’d have done it by now if he had any interest in playing that way with us. He certainly has the players for it.He did do with the national team
The key tactical points of Ange Postecoglou’s controversial 3-2-4-1 formation in possession
A video analysis of the key tactical points of the Socceroos new 3-2-4-1 system of playtimpalmerfootball.com
I find this whole second year thing a bit weird tbh.
But let’s run with it.
Based on the fact he cracks it in the second year what happens in the third year?
If fans start calling for him to go.....he's safe
If fans start singing We want Levy out......He's in big trouble
.. we never get any where or win anything,
We conceded /gave away 3 goals in one half,
i don't give a crappola about possession, effort, or trying hard. . . or 600+ passes
15 days to prepare fr a game and we are down 3 zip at HT with Son looking tired after a marathon.
No shots on target.
We conceded /gave away 3 goals in one half,
i don't give a crappola about possession, effort, or trying hard. . . or 600+ passes
15 days to prepare fr a game and we are down 3 zip at HT with Son looking tired after a marathon.
No shots on target.
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