Now 1 1/2 games into the new season, both Liverpool and Citys RB have assisted in goals. Should I expect the same from KWP today?
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Now 1 1/2 games into the new season, both Liverpool and Citys RB have assisted in goals. Should I expect the same from KWP today?
Walker has just equalled his assist tally for the whole of last season
Poch is a football purist. Like all the big managers he has an idea and philosophy for the game that he doesn't like to deviate from. This new diamond midfield seems to be his new fancy. But it obviously doesn't work with the majority of our central midfield consisting of guys that should start/play fairly deep (Sissoko, Ndombele, Winks, Wanyama, Dier, Skipp) and break forward. It gets rather clogged. And our fullbacks aren't the bombers that they were a few years ago that can dominate their flanks.
We are much better suited to a 4-2-3-1, but he seems set on establishing this formation. Hopefully his stubbornness gives out.
Drives me nuts because then he’ll pull out a tactical masterpiece in a pinch and remind me that he knows the squad than someone on a forum. But today just seemed so obvious from the start.
He seems to have admitted as much in the post match presser. Hopefully he learns and adapts.
I'm desperate for the diamond to die.
4-2-3-1 and we can challenge for the league
My horse for the death of the diamond.
As much as Poch "got it wrong" he really didn't do that bad .... the formation we played for most of the game may not have created as much in the first 30 minutes as we would like, but what it did was run the Villa players into the ground, in the second half it was a total siege by us we ended up with 31 attempts on goal three that went in ....
Eriksen (Lo Celso, Son, Sessegnon) coming on with 30 minutes to go against a knackered defence, that's always going to cause problems and it did .... it's where squad depth will make all the difference
Missing: Vert, Foyth, Davies, Dele, Son
Not Match fit: Dier, Wanyama, Lo Celso, Sessegnon
To win 3-1 I'll take that all day long .... maybe not Poch's best day but not that bad either ....
That said against City we are not "running their legs off" put the diamond away it's 4-4-2 and catch them with counter attacking ... back to basics please
Eriksen (Lo Celso, Son, Sessegnon) coming on with 30 minutes to go against a knackered defence, that's always going to cause problems and it did .... it's where squad depth will make all the difference
Missing: Vert, Foyth, Davies, Dele, Son
Not Match fit: Dier, Wanyama, Lo Celso, Sessegnon
To win 3-1 I'll take that all day long .... maybe not Poch's best day but not that bad either ....
That said against City we are not "running their legs off" put the diamond away it's 4-4-2 and catch them with counter attacking ... back to basics please
He's like a good few on here, likes a good old moan even though he usually contradicts himself when he does...I thought we had to call him the coach?!
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We didn't play a midfield of Winks-Sissoko-Ndombele? Sissoko was out wide. Unless you mean they don't all work in the same team then fair enough but I disagree.