Reply With QuoteHaving the mentality of "expecting our form to drop off" after two good seasons is probably the most uninspiring thing to say. Why have that mentality and accept our form to drop off?
Bloody hell!
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...shows his class...
It's the high line that found us out IMO.Originally Posted by dicko1969
Villa found a way to punish us.
Other Premier sides, and others, will analyse the Villa game to FLICK, and try to emulate what they achieved.
Some intense coaching, which may entail doing away with the high line, will be needed to prevent a repeat.
There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief
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Having the mentality of "expecting our form to drop off" after two good seasons is probably the most uninspiring thing to say. Why have that mentality and accept our form to drop off?
Bloody hell!
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For me the high line isn't any issue at all as long as we have the right personnel in midfield and up front doing the pressing and counter pressing
Trying to play through teams rather than use the switches because we don't have either Henderson or Thiago at CM to play them as none of our other midfielders can does increase the risk
My Fabinho thing is very simple, he does have very bad lapses in the press and allows it to break down, and be broken all too easily making very basic mistakes and being entirely honest about it, as I wish others here could be, the midfield of Fabinho, Gini plus any other that isn't Henderson got found out and exploited from January 2019 onwards and was only fixed by bringing Henderson in from HT in that Southampton game onwards.
Teams weren't just targeting Trent, they were targeting Fabinho also as a way of releasing players in behind Trent, finding players in behind Fabinho to then release a wide runner in behind Trent and all Villa did was brutally expose a weakness in our midfield with Fabinho in the centre that in truth was exposed and had become an achiles heal for us a very long time ago.
I could illustrate with various scenarios of what Fabinho does to allow our press to be broken so easily
I think people under estimate or simply don't appreciate the importance of the switches to how we play, I see most here talk about more attacking midfielders and trying to play through teams.
It's not just finding our full backs, forwards or LCM or RCM advanced in space on the opposite side to create a new point of attack
The effect it has is it disrupts the positioning of the opposition, it takes them out of positions they will have worked on trying to be in to try and create a transition to break our press, it also makes them look and move toward the area the switch has gone to and takes their attention away from the movement of our other players momentarily, and allows our players to all move and adjust their positions to be in better counter press positions and positions to win second balls and stop any potential counters AND make attacking runs beyond players that they simply do not see coming
The effect of the switch balls is absolutely monumental and priceless and vastly under appreciated
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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There we go, you want to be Arsenal under Wenger in his later years, or Pep at City last season, give up doing all of the above and overplay, play too laboured tappy tappy trying to play through teams abandoning all that made you so successful and formidable
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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Oh fuck off why don't you be the manager??
ever thought of trying to apply for a lower league team??
Maybe you should take over klopp i'm sure we'd win the league
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Quoting your own posts!
For fucks sake.
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Worth quoting too, well worth it
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I do know a thing or two about this game Steveo, called it from the outset of this season
UAE FC played like Champions today, played like last season's Champions to be precise
I see some blaming Thiago, it's not on him, we started the overplaying and fancy Dan flicks before he was available to play, long before
UAE FC are actually a joy to watch, they really remind me of us when we won 4 trophies, playing switches, playing direct and early when it's on, when a player has the opportunity to be very direct from a good pass or an opposition error, doing exactly that, see the difference between Foden with Alisson's error and Mane with Ederson's error
UAE FC right now are what we should aspire to and what our evolution should have looked like, keeping our direct style so our ability at it and the relationships built up over 3 seasons playing like that didn't deteriorate and playing Thiago as the more attacking of the 3 mids, prompting new movement and greater variation of runs from the forwards and full backs with his array of passing
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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Let's be honest, City played like champions. I wonder will Man Utd hand over the title they won 2 weeks ago ?
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They played like us the last 2 seasons with the additional midfield creativity we bought Thiago for, I thought to compliment our direct style and offer us more in possession taking 3 or 4 opposition players out of the game with one pass when we were playing possession football with a 2-0 plus lead and teams who were parking the bus HAD to belatedly come out and try and press us and for his variation of passing at the more attacking midfielder of our 3 to prompt and develop new and greater variation of movement and runs from our forwards and full backs when playing our normal direct game
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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When the first 11 is available maybe thats when the passing game starts to work?
Its clearly not working now and is costing us.
It might not be a bad thing if Thiago starts being used less frequently.
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