I think they skip that and go straight to next game. No point training wasting time.
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Yup - playing Porro and Perisic in back 4 = absolute suicide.
But majority on this forum were dying to see a back 4, knowing very well that Emerson, sessegnon and Davies our out injuries, and that Dier is mylittlepony quality garbage
Fair fucks to Howe but I can't say many (if any) of their players would be on my shopping list for the summer........
Because they are boring, average and shit. Poor man’s Leicester supported as the nations second favourite team. Today was Saturday league vs Sunday League with Hugo after a couple of bottles of Sauvignon under his belt but apparently the formation change was a minor variation…
Including Eddie
The squad is set up to play 5 at the back with very attacking wing-backs, and with better coaching, better effort / concentration by the players etc there is no reason we can't do that successfully. For those who said 'why noy play 442, how can our defense by any worse than it's been recently?', today provided the obvious answer. For those now saying 'we still need to play 442 but it will take time to get it right' - open your eyes, it would mean replacing pretty much all of our defenders, which whilst it might seem appealing tonight, is simply not practical. If we play 532 but with a more attacking manager than Conte (or his pet), we could be so much better than we've been this season.
Zero.
More chance of Elvis riding Shergar into Parliament and declaring a bank holiday for the whole country
With the 5 at the back we are still one of the worst defences in the country. And we still need replacing 3 of the 5 defenders . Unless of course you believe in the likes of Perisic, Dier, Davies etc.
Not sure what your disagree is for - I don't disagree with you on either of those points. :/ But if we go to a back 4 then we need to replace most of the defenders in our squad. Perisic, Perro, Spence, Udogie, are all better as wing-backs, Dier is even worse in a 4 than a 5, same for Sanchez, and on today's evidence we might even have to say the same about Romero (his tendency to wander forwards also supports that).
I'm not saying we have a great defence for a 5 - far from it - I'm just saying that it's even worse if we play a back 4.
Boring?
Battered us, UTD. Only lost 4 games all season. A functional defence alongside a really good midfield. Seem to be really enjoying their football.
They remind me of us under Redknapp.
Should have left it there.
Better players can play in any system. This notion our squad can only play with 5 at the back is part of our problem, fans are buying into it as though it's inevitable. It isn't we just have a bunch of shit donkeys who can't handle being in a back 4 so we pander to them by playing a back 5.
It's not a worse defence because it's a back 4, it's a worse defence because these are fucking shit players who are awfully coached. That's a recipe for disaster in a back 4 or a 5 or a 6 or whatever system you play.
"Better players can play in any system. " - yes but we don't have "better players", we have the players that we have! And rather than pretend they can be excellent at whatever we want them to, we would be wise to make the best we can of them in a system that suits them best.
If you have choice between 'bad' and 'even worse', you should choose 'bad' surely. Of course in the longer term we all want better than that, and of course it's a disgrace that we haven't bought a top quality CD in the last 12 months, but for now we have what we have and forcing them to play in a system that makes them even worse than a back 5 isn't going to help anyone. Mind-boggling that anyone is questioning this! :/
Did Danny say something about him? He looked like he shit himself a bit there!
What's mind boggling is people continually excusing 5 at the back because we have fucking shit players. Every top club manages fine with 4 at the back, yet our fans now think we can only play with 5.
We need to focus on getting better players and better coaching and management not trying to fit shit players into a shit system.
It's not a choice between bad and worse except when you have shit footballers and crap coaching. That much should be obvious.
Woeful signings.