the last page on this He's only one away!That would be fun. Just field the lineup that the CAF wants and let us all enjoy these games. If, by the end of the season, the simulated team gets better results than the actual team, there will be one heck of hilarious meltdown on here.I shall provide! Although I'll keep everything in one post
Too true. A dismal performance and a narrow, unconvincing win.
Yup. With this and Burnley midweek we have a really good opportunity to put 6 points on the board in quick succession and take hold of 3rd.
This season I'd take a dismal performance and narrow unconvincing win away at West Ham tbf.
You're using '532' to say as if its an ultra-defensive formation. It is actually '352', which LVG clearly uses. It isnt a bad formation at all. We can have 5 at the back when defending AND flood the midfield when attacking. Very useful tactic in my opinion. Problem is; we don't have the right wingbacks for it.
In bold is the reason that it's 532 and not 352. On paper and in van Gaal's mind it might be 352. On the pitch it's without doubt 532. Everytime we play it both wide midfielders (in your mind) just end up going further and further back towards our own box because they aren't really suited to the position.
He doesn't say that. At all.
I clearly remember that Fergie warned his players to be on their toes all the time and no one is undroppable. More than a few times.
Agree, sorry, that was from the headline and he does say that he will occasionally use the player as a stiker. I was focussing more on the "playing for their futures" bit to tell you the truth. But that was not good to leave that in, I'll edit my post before I get an avalanche of comments.
On paper it's 3-5-2 but in reality it's 5-3-2 or 5-1-2-1-1. As you have rightly said, we don't have the wing backs to play an attacking 3-5-2, therefore the team seems to default on that formation and adopt a defensive set up which results in the team lacking fluidity.
Good point. But it is still 352. In fact, our vulnerability in previous games with this formation was because the wingbacks didnt track back. Leaving only 3 at the back isolated. We would have been far more solid in defence if they didn't push forward as often, like you said, and have actual 5 in defence all the time (in a 532 formation).
What was wrong with the performances against Cambridge and Leicester?
Both at home.
Still good performances nonetheless. Its the first time we've played with tempo and adventure, let's hope we carry that over for today.
Quite a few of our home performances have been good, I can't think of one away performance when we have played well for the full 90 minutes.
Old news pal, we've already won it 0-2 keep up ffs.
Forget winning today then. I'll be pleasantly surprised if we do.
Had to read back through the thread to find out what the feck you were talking about.
One was against a team who are near bottom of the league and the other are a league two club. Forgive me if I'm not ecstatic over our form against two teams we should be beating. Fact is our results this season have been better than our performances.
Clatterburg is a massive cnut.
Yeah but you can't just discount 2 performances because you feel like it. Chelsea conceded and struggled against a team who hadn't scored in 11 hours of football and city drew with Hull, at home. Its a tough league and results like that gain momentum.
So last season we complained that the players were getting it easy and Moyes was being too nice and to be honest that looked true, the players were a massive let down and obviously need that massive kick up the arse and thats what fergie done, no room for passengers and now LvG says something on the same lines and it's demotivating them ?
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