For me, Pep isn't the problem. Everyone copying him are. It's even worse at youth academies today, with coaches micro-managing young kids to fit systems and play positional play.
The individuality and flair is vanishing, I expect future...
I'm not defending his mistake today, it's really poor. But how is someone like him able to adapt to this league if he never gets a consistent run of games in midfield?
Yh like I said, it's poor but that's only one clip. If we saw that unfold in 10-12 other matches; you could say there's an issue.
Regardless of intelligence, young players are going to make positional mistakes; especially in midfield. Viera...
Yes, damning clip; no compactness. But Mainoo being young, playing central midfield will struggle with decision-making
There needs to be better communication from behind in those instances
The analysis is quite lazy from Clichy and Carragher. Sure, United lack cohesion; it's clear. But ultimately, football is an invasion sport, thus chaos is inevitable. Teams can't be positionally perfect throughout the 90 minutes.
The last two sentences are stupid. A managers job is to win football matches through maximizing their best players. This modern day obsession with philosophies and styles, is mostly a load of nonsense. Would you say SAF had a discrete philosophy?
Let's be real, England will always lack the technical quality and tactical nous to win anything.
When you compare our coaches, players, and pundits to their European and South American counterparts, we're significantly below the required level...