I haven't understood your diagram.Those diagrams reminded me of this for some reason...
What is the lesson? Success generates success?
Unai Emery
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
What is the lesson? Success generates success?
@Successful is the expert in this field
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/£400m-transfer-kitty-within-5-years.322093/
Still more successful European Cup coach then most coaches so a bit of cheek to to be critical of his tactics, he's proven how his tactics have almost always worked
He ended the game with 58% passing accuracy; completing 3 successful passes in the second half. If that's what your captain is offering at the back you can hardly blame the less experienced players for flailing too.
He won 3 Europa League Cup breaking the dream of Benfica (2014), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2015) and Liverpool (2016).
Now, it is turn to be depressed.
That's life.
Now, it is turn to be depressed.
That's life.
No, but a leader is expected to instill confidence into the three young defenders around him who were clearly shitting themselves throughout the entire game, calm them down a bit - something Rio and Vida have done countless times for us in the past. Yet for some reason Silva keeps getting called a great defender and great leader.
On Emery - think the negative backlash has been heavily undeserved. Yes, his tactits were negative and he was asking for it. In the grand scheme of things though - it is a new experience for him, in a team that is historically a footnote in European football and has little traditions and confidence in winning. He has them playing some wonderful football, with a bunch of young and very talented players. He'll learn and improve, hopefully - that's what great managers should do.
I could explain in details his mistakes but not today!
Apart from starting Di Maria from the start, im not sure what else the manager could have done except maybe putting 10 men on the edge of their box once Neymar scored that free kick?
Conceding three goals in the last 5 or so minutes is just criminal. And it just seemed like individual mistakes throughout mixed with moments of genius by Neymar.
Conceding three goals in the last 5 or so minutes is just criminal. And it just seemed like individual mistakes throughout mixed with moments of genius by Neymar.
Playing ultra deep and defensively was his huge mistake last night. PSG actually "started" the match when they were 3:0 down.. What the heck did they do in the first half and at the start of the second is a mistery and its all down to the coach, his tactics and they way he mentally prepared his players. Epic fail for Emery here, sackable failure, i would say.
The mistake number 1.
The other factors:
1. Lucas Moura on the pitch against a side like Barcelona was another huge mistake: I still do remember his poor performance against Chelsea in London 3 or 4 years ago. PSG won the 1st leg 3-1 at home. He is unable to keep the ball when the team suffers and always loses the ball when the team is low on the pitch. His pass accuracy was very poor yesterday, he lost 27 times the ball. He is a player whose main strength is his pace. He hasn't a brain. Cruyjff is the ULTIMATE CLEVER player. Moura is the ULTIMATE STUPID player: he knows how to run, not to take the best collective decision.
2. It means Di Maria or Pastore (in a great shape since his return 2 weeks ago) should have started the game... Pastore is a strange player who has never been disappointing in the great games (Marseille, Chelsea, Barcelona many times...)
3. Playing ultra deep and defensively? It works ONLY IF you have the required players and defenders. You can do it some defenders whose quality number 1 is to defend hard (Chiellini, Godin, Torricelli, Conte, Thuram....). The PSG defenders are 'modern ones': complete, good offensively and with the ball... Such a strategy is pure suicide with players not accustomed/trained to defend vigorously.
4. Who are the leaders? Thiago Silva was a superb defender until 2012. Now, he is decent but no longer the great defender he used to be. And we know Captain Thiago Silva at the WC 2014... With Zlatan, we won't have been ridiculous even if he wouldn't have touched the ball.
5. The referee: congrats, MOTM with Neymar.
6. The coach overly confident before the game and made the bad decisions.
7. Coaching: Aurier + Krychowiak as subs... Counter-productive and meaningless...
Shame he had to suffer a defeat like this. He doesn't deserve it, as he has proven to be a very good manager. Now his career has suffered a big blow.