I am not positive, but the same tactics work if James put a cross to Martial who was running with 3 defenders behind him btw! It’s a 1to1 guaranteed.
When Martial again makes the run behind VVD, VVD is almost stopped to but James can’t put the ball in front of him for a 1to1 again. When Pereira can’t push his body in the goals with the ball, etc...
We are failing those last passes and actions because the players are shaking mentally right now. Only a few of them have the strong mentality. But it will come because the club is putting the emphasis on the need to be mentally strong again, and we are reducing the mental collapse. Next step is to have a few technical leaders and leaders to lead the team even more and we should be there.
Ole needs some players, needs to drill the mental aspect with the players, maybe we hire a psychologist or someone to put them in confidence no matter what, and then we need to fix the set pieces issue. Forget zonal in set pieces or mix it with.
Even 2 players can change that team dramatically. Really.
I understand the doom and gloom but please don’t think just because I see positive that I find positive in losses. I find positives in the fact that there is someone right now in Ole who cares about the club and is taking the high way to make it click.
And we need to fire the whole medical team for being unable to help managers with the real assessment of players healthy. Get this s*** sorted out really.