Recent content by lexisonfire

Not sure if Liverpool do this, at Dortmund Klopp did a high-press for 20-25 minutes to try to score 1-2 goals, then control the game and play on the counter. The early wave of high pressure often threw teams off from kickoff and led to goals but it's unsustainable to press so intensely so the...

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Get the feeling Kane's lowkey trying to push for a January transfer.

Too early to say but defensive organisation can improve. Offensively we are in the healthy top right quadrant of club XG charts, so it's defense that needs work. Klopp was also a slow starter, Tuchel was immediately effective at changing the playstyle to Pep-lite even if we leaked goals at...

Doubt it's a good idea, he had burnout at Schalke. If Utd get into a sticky run of games he'll be affected, so just hire a new gaffer and let Rangnick chill. If the new gaffer fecks up he can swoop in like at Leipzig.

Poch needs the PSG job to win his 1st career title and boost his confidence (PSG players obviously don't respect him) more than PSG needs Poch to win Ligue 1. PSG can do it with Messi as player-manager, but given that Poch is a former PSG captain they should try to let him see out the season...

Perhaps Haaland but he has a horrible agent in Raiola. Look at Pogba's career. Ultimately players who shine at BVB have the potential to do well elsewhere but they must pick the right coach who wants to develop them further (e.g. Gundogan suffered an ACL injury and Pep made the team wear...

Set piece defending is likely to be worse at international level due to irregular training, England got quite far in the tournament as corner merchants.

Notice how fast Chelsea win the ball back versus Utd because they press. It's how they have 70% possession. Utd stand still when Chelsea get the ball, they defend like a mid/lower table team. They run back to form a low block instead of trying to press in 2-3s to force a wayward pass and...

Ajax's equaliser away at Besiktas is exactly the type of vertical football that Rangnick advocates, a through pass from defence that took out 10 Besiktas players. Problem is Rangnick may favour German coaches, i.e. his coaching disciples who can continue his work. ETH is also likely not keen...

Played W D L GF GA GD Points Tuchel 50 35 8 7 81 24 +57 113 Pep 50 29 11 10 105 56 +49 98 Klopp 50 23 16 11 86 57 +29 86 First 50 games compared. Observations: Klopp takes a longer time to instill his style of play and doesn't clubhop as a consequence of the difficulty of implementing...