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What were seeing now is nothing like what we saw at the beginning of the season.
Nothing to do with being found out. We are not playing the way we should be. We were quite literally walking at times today.
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What were seeing now is nothing like what we saw at the beginning of the season.
Nothing to do with being found out. We are not playing the way we should be. We were quite literally walking at times today.
Today wasn’t about tactics or selections, it was about the will to win. We know Wolves will park the bus and play on the break. There will be very little space to play in and minimal opportunity to play sexy football unless we score first and open up the game.
The worst thing you can do in a game like this, is pass it slow and sideways but that’s what we did. I don’t believe that’s what Ange wants but that’s what his players did. So he’s got a lot of work to do.
His use of subs was also terrible today. No idea how Richi and Emerson stayed on that long. They looked like training cones out there.
The worst thing you can do in a game like this, is pass it slow and sideways but that’s what we did. I don’t believe that’s what Ange wants but that’s what his players did. So he’s got a lot of work to do.
His use of subs was also terrible today. No idea how Richi and Emerson stayed on that long. They looked like training cones out there.
With all due respect to (Celtic, Scotland, Robbie Burns and Rab C. Nesbitt), you cannot compare the Scottish Premiership to the Premier League.
Have a word with yourself davies that headed chance. 50 pence head. Odd side wolves. Raise their game against top sides but shit against shit sides.
Not a chance we're going to get a Champions league place. We are miles away from showing signs of picking up a winning run to get us there
All he has to do is score and then he ain't pish no more. Same as Sonny who is very good at scoring just like Rishi.
No aerial threat after he was taken off.
Might be able to get CL with 5th depending on the coefficient
Like Pep, when he reconstructs the team with 5 £80 million plus substitutes?
He has a philosophy that has us playing amazing football but like russian Roulette it has a fatal flaw.
He played his plan B a few games ago and subbed off the creative players and put on a load of defensive ones - plan B! How did that work out?
We lack a Kane and we need better MF support for Madison, Bissouma and Sarr are decent but not the answer. Great going forward and then turn into traffic cones when we lose possession.
We just lost 2-1 at home again, like we did to villa and the spammers, by a team who play on the counter at speed and gamble that they don't shoot themselves in the head.
Do want us to die on our feet playing football, or live on our knees ?
After the Conte and mourinho years I'll take this season every time.
It sure we have played great chance creating attacking football tbh! Today was a damp squib and not for the first time.
Ange lost his 2 star wingbacks this week who are critical to his system and people getting on his back.
It's a squad issue not a manager issue.
It's a squad issue not a manager issue.
Very possibly and agree. We need quality players but also one's with a bit more aggression..
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Alternatively, we could try to make Ange understand that we can't do the same thing week in, week out and be surprised when the opposition have not just an answer but a counter argument.
I'm right behind you, just on the other side of the door. Got your back.
Oh totally. We lack the decisiveness and penetration of those first ten games.
We are playing once a week, thanks to being out of the cups. We shouldn't be tired at all.
We have fuckloads of possession but too often play the wrong ball, or people get in each others way. It looks like they don't know what they are doing.
Teams lose football matches. It happens. Sometimes you get fucked on the counter.
But what we are seeing is a pattern emerging over the last ten games. They don't know what to do.
And we've become too easy to play against. Soak it up and counter.
Even when we've won recently we haven't played well or looked convincing. Considering our lack of European football and early exits from both domestic cup competitions, this may well end up our worst season in years. Especially after the bright start.Awful result, awful performance!!
4 goal chances at home??? Wolves our new boogey team!!
Feels like top4 are slipping now, we are so out of form it hurts
That Chelski game totally derailed our season.
I’ve already forgotten we played today
That’s why we won’t improve because those front players are not consistent enough over the 90 mins. They do decent stuff then terrible stuff. Look at Liverpool today,Woolwich and likely city tonight and their front players and especially their wide players are continually asking questions of the opposition. We do it in fits and starts and we can never get sustained amount of pressure on a team because of how untidy our front players are. I’ve said it all season and it will continue next season if we don’t actually go and sign players who are tidy and clever with pace.
Also the difference without Udogie and Porro is massive.
Agree.
But there was a tactical element too. We have to be able to play 3 at the back and make use of our best players. Davies and Emerson killed us today.
We play the same way whether it's working or not. Some may find it acceptable because we try to attack but losing feels the same and so does tactical ineptitude and an inability to change. Fair play to O'Neil today reactive to what was happening and won them the game tactically. We did nothing to counter it but hope for the best.