The fact we have one of the worst defences this season is on Ole and his coaches. What on earth do they do for training, run around a bit, lift a few weights. As someone said why isn't Maguire the one being used to win the ball in the air instead he is the one waiting for the knockdown against fast forwards. Our goalkeeper is weak and has been for ages. He now has to drop him and start trying to bed in Dean Henderson. They have absolutely no idea how to play an offside trap, that is down to relentless coaching. He has got the attacking just about spot on, but he has to take some blame for the ineptitude of the defending. Also bring Matic on, not Axel.
I'm sick of reading this, the very fact that it gets said over and over game after game is proof that it is on Ole.
Also Tuanzebe is shocking in the air, if that was the plan then he probably would have been better bringing magic on who is 11cm taller, better in the air and a million times better under pressure seeing as though he has seen it all.
This is the problem with Ole, he's just really basic. defending a lead throw on defender, haven't conceded yet keep playing the same team/same way even if we are getting outplayed. Players out form? not changing them because I know they have been good in the past.
I also get the impression that if we're a drawing, the risk of going all out for he win is too much for him, it's continue as is to make sure we don't concede and hope we score rather than going all out to make sure we score and hope we don't concede. This could also explain our poor starts considering the score is 0-0, you must be able to count on one hand the amount of games we have come flying out the traps in the 2+ years under Ole no matter how big the occasion is.
Barking up the wrong tree here guys. I’m someone who is usually critical of Ole and if he’s had a bad match I’m in here pointing it out. In the general discussion of him, I’ve been critical of the poor defending and set piece defending.
But this is a game by game performance thread and that’s how I use it.
I don’t think he got much wrong today, we carried on attacking at 3-2 and only tried to shut up shop during injury time as it should be. Everton were bound to start getting late free kicks so it made sense to bring on a defender, Matic in hindsight yes would have been the better option. But Everton had basically 3 shots today and scored from all of them (how the heck do you account for that) which tells you our overall set up and the unfolding of the game was in our favour.
And yea I know we need to be better defensively but those first two goals today can’t really be fixed on the training ground. There is an argument that the players who made those mistakes shouldn’t be playing but the mistakes were so avoidable.
Maguire isn’t going to stop being useless at taking control of a situation with training and degea pathetically palming a ball back into the six yard box can’t really be fixed with training. Unfortunately these things are ingrained in those two players and unfortunately I don’t think we have anything better at the club. Though that would then lead to the question why we spent 80 million on an average centre half and why have a portion of our fanbase spent two years pretending the current regimes transfer record is a good one but that’s for another thread....
The third goal yes, it’s from a set piece, we failed to hold the line and we concede way too many of them and that’s definitely on the coaching staff and at this points it’s bordering on negligence that it hasn’t been fixed.
