They had lots of shots though.A strong professional performance. Benitez set up not to lose.
Could easily have won if they had more quality in attack
They had lots of shots though.A strong professional performance. Benitez set up not to lose.
They have the mourinho mentality, afraid we give away chances, hearing John Barnes and his crew of hack pundits totally dismiss what ole has been doing, like he told them to just play football, forgetting what is going behind the scenes what they trying to achieve. This obsession with big name managers is what has done us over with Jose and VG.People keep saying that we are giving away chances and better teams will punish us but every team gives away chances every game, even the ones above us.
Better teams may well score but also they will leave spaces when they are attacking. They will be as worried about us as we are them.
We wanted attacking football and that's what you get.
There was only really one time when I was concerned in this game when calamity Jones showed his worst and best (giving the ball away and then a great recovery tackle). I may have forgotten an incident but the rest of the shots were speculative or from difficult angles.
The whole team is being reprogrammed, philosophy is changing, the fitness levels have been so bad because of how lazy jose’s whole mind set has been in how he has coached the squad, in how our fitness levels have been so low that we have been near the bottom of the league of distance covered since he joined in 2016. So ole is inheriting a team that has been playing slow out dated dark ages football, with a manager that has set the teams progress back by atleast 13 months. I vouch since December 2017 we have gone backwards, and because the board did not act fast enough by booting Jose in March we behind schedule of the level we should be atapart from his rash challenge on Pogba, I was a bit alarmed at how much time on the ball Shelvey was getting when he came on. He has played something like 30 mins football since last Nov I believe the commentator said. He cut us open with that one pass and then had a decent shot himself. That's with us playing 2 defence minded mids against someone who clearly couldn't be match fit.Maybe nitpicking, but against better teams ie Spurs that could be harmful. Good battling performance from the lads and not taking anything away from that, just offering a word of caution.
If we took all our chances, speculative shots and had been less greedy in the last 10 minutes we would have won by 10.They had lots of shots though.
Could easily have won if they had more quality in attack
They had lots of shots though.
Could easily have won if they had more quality in attack
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We had more shots, this happens in football.They had lots of shots though.
Could easily have won if they had more quality in attack
Some rotation is needed.Now we get Reading on Saturday (great time to rotate and put Pereira and Fred together), give Sanchez and Lukaku game time, even rest some key players like Rashford, Herrera, Matic and Pogba, if possible build more momentum for Martial/Lingard.
Than we have a whole week before Spurs, with full force.
Feeling good and confident.
Andre Marriner