All the statistics and percentages you guys discuss, are absolutely irrelevant.
This season we could have easily won against Arsenal, Spurs, Brighton, Bayern, Gala. 5 games that with wins would have made the entire season look much different.
Also we could have easily fecked up at least 5 games that we won like Wolves, Fulham, etc.
The relevant part is the team performance. We see good offensive performances against open teams. We see terrible offensive performances against defensive teams.
Our defensive performances are mostly dreadful.
We rarely see substitutions change games in our favour. We don't really have a player that you'd always expect to pop up with a game saving moment.
Bottom line is we have weak and average squad that concedes way too many shots and produces way too few.
ETH's system has worked in a few games this season, a few more one before. When it does, it looks great. But now mostly it doesn't. And he seems very lost at moments. That's the most concerning part. Saying that McTominay sub against Forest was good and publicly saying we were better, is absurd. Anyone can see that we lost the midfield because of this substitution. And creating 3 half assed chances and a goal, made by Garnacho's workrate, can NOT be considered "good".
The last saving line for him is the mythical return of injured players. The moment we have Licha, Shaw and Casemiro on the pitch with Rashford, Garnacho, Bruno and Hojlund upfront. Also we are yet to see what's the importance of Mason Mount, who has done feck all, bar an corner assist so far.
Personally, I'm sceptic at this point. Even with our whole first team I expect us to struggle against defensive teams and look good against open teams.
I want ETH to be building something, and I want it badly. But I just don't see it, his transfers don't help me to see it one bit.