G-manc
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Why are we so allergic to actually running or playing with any sort of urgency? This seems to have been a thing with every manager post-Fergie.
Even the mid to lower table teams seem to have an ability to play some one touch football and zip it about a bit and contest 50/50’s whereas we only play with urgency in small spells when either chasing a goal or for maybe 5-10 minutes at the start of a game. I can’t remember the last time one of our players came out the right side of an evenly contested tackle.
Surely no one is told to move the ball slowly? if we actually had press resistant players who could string more than 2 passes together without giving the ball away cheaply, then I could sort of understand it, but all it does is 2 main things -encourages the opposition to attack us and allows them all the time in the world to organise themselves against our toothless attack.
We are bottom of nearly every stat whether it’s distance covered or attacking stats. How is this not identified and rectified given how many analysts etc. are involved in top level sport nowadays?
Even the mid to lower table teams seem to have an ability to play some one touch football and zip it about a bit and contest 50/50’s whereas we only play with urgency in small spells when either chasing a goal or for maybe 5-10 minutes at the start of a game. I can’t remember the last time one of our players came out the right side of an evenly contested tackle.
Surely no one is told to move the ball slowly? if we actually had press resistant players who could string more than 2 passes together without giving the ball away cheaply, then I could sort of understand it, but all it does is 2 main things -encourages the opposition to attack us and allows them all the time in the world to organise themselves against our toothless attack.
We are bottom of nearly every stat whether it’s distance covered or attacking stats. How is this not identified and rectified given how many analysts etc. are involved in top level sport nowadays?