30 Aug 2015 20:07:54
Edward 1 . What do you make of our lack of pace offensively and the spoofer filling out midfield with utility players such as can Milner Henderson Allen and Lucas as the only dm ? Every top side in premier lge era had pace power . To boot our midfield lacks the ability to control a game as none of them are if that ilk and as I said they are utility . We lack penetration . Pardew and monk are showing him up for assembling their squads on the basics , pace out wide and variation of the midfield so as to maximise creativity and then add the hard work element . We really do look toothless and basic . There's nothing to fear from us . Rodgers imo won't last .

{Ed001's Note - I just think he lacks tactical acumen and other teams have worked him out. Even the changes he makes are just formations, not tactical. Having players like that in midfield should allow him to be tactically flexible, but they simply aren't good enough players mentally to work it out. Milner is not a captain, he leads nothing on the pitch, doesn't act like a manager on the pitch and struggles to spot where he should be running. He is little more than a headless chicken once in the centre.}

1.) 31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015 10:58:16
A lot of the time, the players just stand about, it seems like the don't where to be. You could see that every time, Lucas for example, had the ball the players ahead didn't show up neither did they run forward, and so he ended up passing it to one of the full backs. There's no passing triangles, there's no overloading the wings, there's just nothing.

2.) 31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015 11:09:14
I think how well Sterling is doing in Man City shows how much difference having a good coach with a clear tactical plan can improve a player's performance.

3.) 31 Aug 2015
31 Aug 2015 20:21:12
Spot on Jax with your City analysis. Pellegrini has learnt after almost getting the sack at city that what he has been doing no longer works and a change is needed. His 442 no longer works and that system left his CB`s exposed each time they got outnumbered in midfield. He has switched it around to a system that not only protects the CB`s, it allows Silva to play in the hole where he is lethal and the team is not only playing well but keeping clean sheets (whis shows the diff b/w keeping clean sheets by limiting the other team`s chances and our clean sheets which rlies mainly on the other team being woeful in front of goal or the refs bailing us out). same thing Sat, he switched to a 442 when the system wasn`t working and that opened up the game and they won. BR did none of that vs WH nad the game was already lost before he did. Pello is a coach who has learnt his lessons and his team are the better for it. BR had better learn fast because this time, there will be no marsh, pascoe, Balotelli, the pitch or Studge`s injuries to blame for his failures should he not get results