In what season? 99 we drew 3-3 with Barca home and away, drew 2-2 home and away to Bayern, beat Juventus 3-2 in Italy.
It'll never die, I've been hearing it since last season the attacking football and flair will start appearing in next few months as he buys more players. It hasn't happened yet. The fact he has such a good way with words plus his past will always make people reluctant to call out his football and his style for what it is, a poor man Mourinhos' impersonation. Let's see how long it lasts, 3 away wins in a week is a massive improvement. But its become such a huge deal, only because of months and months of putrid away performances/results put by his team in the first place... Inevitably some will get carried away by positive results/performances this week but you can't wash away the past with just 3 games/matches. There's an awful long way to go yet and we have to still recover 7 points game from 4th place.
Liverpool haven't lost a game at home for 2.5 years while City have lost just twice in that same time period. The best sides in the league are way too strong at home, but he's beaten likes of Arsenal/Us/Chelsea/ away in the past few seasons. Oh and also, a small matter of knocking out City at their own patches in a CL QF.
Fair enough. I'm not saying we'd cherish a draw (most people did however credit the recent draw quote a bit though) but if Ole had us go to Anfield and score 5 goals, regardless of the result, it'd go down as one of his better performances.
Unlike Pochettino, he seems to know what he's doing when up against the bigger sides away from home. Poch is a good manager, just find it a bit funny that a lot of you have a go at Solskjaers tactics even after winning at Stamford Bridge for the second time in a row.
Like the time we ripped apart Rochdale?
Some people would refuse to accept it if he did or don't want him too, they are so hell bent on him getting sacked.
Actually both Liverpool and city looked quite clueless with possession and building up play during the first full season under Pep and Klopp. Liverpool kept blowing leads and City couldn’t break down low blocks. I very much see strong basics of ball retention, movement, intensity and possession in Ole’s team. It’s just the team is full of very inexperienced players and the squad is threadbare so they end up blowing promising situations and are unable to consistently turn them into chances.
I've said in earlier posts that Solskjaer should stick to his guns. Stick to being a counter attacking manager, stop decieving the public by using this attacking football metric as it's falsified. We are more useful out of possession in moments of transition then we are when in phases of play. Given Ole's 10 year managerial career this is the best standard of football he can muster in my honest opinion. I don't understand how fans think us buying an entire new starting 11 will suddenly up the coaching directives. Look at the quality Madrid have had at their disposal in the last 5 years, they for me have never been considered a coherent attacking team, never had an identity / ethos that cultivates the players to play a specific way or to a specific system. I see a similar angle with Ole where there's much impetus on individual players to come up with their own brilliance for us to win games. It's this very reason we struggle against teams that swallow up pressure and will try and nick a lead when the chance presents itself.
I'm not a great fan of Ole and don't think he's the one to make us champions but to give him his dues I do think he's now making the best with what he's got. It's hard to be an attacking manager with what we have. People say that's his (Eds) fault for leaving us short but that's neither here nor there. It is what it is.
Good thing you've listed them all. Impressive for five and a half seasons of football.
Not if we were to concede 5 and lose on penalties... Especially if Liverpool had fielded a team as weak as the one yesterday. It's obvious they didn't prioritise that game at all.
That's a good stat. Hopefully he does as a good a job a Pochettino overall though. It's not the same but it's more important to manage well than win a few away games.
They're completely different, you're not comparing apples with apples.
Not sure which teams you were watching. With both City and Liverpool you could see the emphasis the managers were putting in these areas very clearly. Again, you're making the error of focusing on results - like all the people who went on and on about Pep's awful first season and Klopp not winning the Europa like Mourinho did - when in both cases their teams in the foundations of how they played football, were being structured to play a certain very exciting way. That you were unable to see that is odd.
What does he need to do, to do that, considering Poch has never won anything. Top 4 finish and League cup win?
Champions league final, and 2/3 top 3 finishes. Add a couple of FA cup semi finals in there too.
Okay. Well Villa managers had good records against Chelsea to. Was just checking you out wasn’t claiming Solskjaer was actually a better manager than Poch.
Play good football, improve the first team, continuous top 5 and a championship league final. If he can do that he’s in with a shot.
Lvg did better than that. And he didn't manage his team as well as Pochettino. Use better metrics.
Yes. because I have said our attacking play is brilliant?
So lots of nearly moments. Never amounting to anything.
The bar is higher than at United. Jose was more successful at United than Poch and he got sacked as well
And still we were more often than not set up to play on the counter or play"underdog" football as you call it in most games at Anfield, Stamford Bridge and Highbury. A lot of the time without getting a win as well.
How long does he get to achieve this. 11 months?
Yes because he did a worse job. When you spend 400 million you're expected to do better. It's not only that our standards are higher but we have bigger pockets and statute, and hence the same peformance (from the manager) would lead to more output.
Yeah he was absolutely clueless last night, sounds like his tactics according to you are about as useless as your knowledge on the subject lad
Most games? Not a chance. Domestically it was just Arsene's peak Gunners who pinned us properly back. And Pep's Barcelona. Otherwise barring the end of SAFs tenure, we did not play underdog football against every top English team.
Spurs were already a good footballing team and a consistent top 5/6 team well before Poch arrived. The football played under Redknapp was much better, imo. The CL final was a freak happening and they bottled the PL to Leicester when the rest of the big teams were crap
The absolute state of this post two weeks later, 3 away wins on the spin, two very very good performances, will be the semi final of a cup and beat Bournemouth on Saturday potentially up to 5th in the league.
Obviously if Ole were to win trophies with United and significant ones he would surpass where Poch is now. Fact is he is behind where Poch is now, Ole doesn't even have nearly moments so getting nearly moments would be an improvement
2/3 years if he cant last that long
People assume just because he has less resources he will do better, but he has one of the best resources in world football, Harry Kane. He did not pluck him out of obscurity. Sherwood gave him his debut.
When was the last time we dominated a game at Anfield or Stamford Bridge? That sure hasn't happened a lot...
Yeah right. Arsenal scored 5 and their fans are fuming.
So what the hell was we relegation fodder? Spurs have been a joke for years. Poch changed that.
The 2-1 win when Gerrard got sent off. First half the best i have seen from us at Anfield
