Masses of injuries, due to press and counter press over the last few years.
This squad / team couldn't keep it up.
The players you have mentioned have been ruined by the very methods you advocate.
Isn't that ironic.
This is more nonsense, I see our players performing perfectly well, not looking at all jaded or leggy on international duty, I see them do it when we're set up right, some arguments made in this thread knocking Trent have been commenting on how much more running Robbo does and how full of running he is, it also failed to account for Fab's deficiencies in the press and 'sitting' in front of our back four so not actively contributing to it or Elliott starting almost every game and being absolutely nowhere near contributing to it or on it or in it
Our injuries are a result of changes to our backroom and medical staff, it has been pretty well covered
Main issues with the press and counter press in our set up, which even Southgate has England doing better than Jurgen who developed the practice to much higher levels has our lads doing and he's not alone in international managers in charge of some of our players currently doing pressing and counter pressing than Jurgen, because, as detailed, you can't try and play a possession game with a designated playmaker and a top class pressing and counter pressing game
So the first issue is Jurgen has been trying to cultivate a style that not only weakens a teams ability to play a high level pressing and counter pressing game, but that makes it incredible easy for other sides to set up to press and counter press and counter them
Were we actually trying to play a pressing and counter pressing game, the first and long term issue to address is we have persisted with a midfield destroyer we bought to play as a high destroyer as a DM following our being found out using him in the role we bought him for. Who persistently lets our press be broken and has never has the box to box ability, pace or athleticism of a genuine DM to perform the role or chase back and get back between defenders when necessary and if that wasn't enough, his lack of reading of the game and positioning and anticipation means he generally sits in deeper, off the press, in front of our back four.
A DM or No6 sitting off the press in front of our back four is not actively contributing to the press, they are not in it, so it is already deficient from how we played it at its highest levels in 19-20 in his absence. We need a new proper top class DM to start next season and to draw a line under this nonsense, or we'll end up keeping him like we have/did Ox, Keita, Gomez, Moreno, Origi and others, taking up a considerable wage and a foreign player squad slot
We need to coach Nunez on his contributions to the press and counter press, his work rate at it and intensity in it, Wagbo seems on point very early, as was Diaz so it will be good to have him back, although we what use it will be when we're not playing a pressing and counter pressing game and don't have a chance of while persisting with this season's nonsense remains to be seen
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