I’d like to see a bit more of this from Hughes:
https://twitter.com/DirtyFootbaIIer/status/1033723752054489088
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A sensible write up from TUI. It’s such a shame the forum there is dominated by twats
Its the same old same old, we’re still not winning games we should, 24 points lost from winning positions since the start of 2017/18, its the same shit but rehashed.
Are you talking about your posts?
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Doesn’t make it wrong, similar to our excuses in always pointing to defeats.
Agree with a lot of that but the stuff about being a bit more like the side we were a few years ago was premature in the extreme.
Like you after half a pint and a bit of lipstick.
Perhaps better wording would be that we are finally not looking like the side of the last 2 years?
Dunno, “We’re scoring more goals, a couple of players have hit some form, but we line up either 4-4-2 or with 5 at the back and no longer press high and as a team” would be closer to the truth.
On Saturday we played much of the game with a back line of Vestergaard and Hoedt, with Lemina dropping deep as a third defender much of the time. This allowed the full backs to push forward a lot more, also giving greater freedom to Redmond and Elyounoussi. We did press Leicester; not to the extent that we did under Pochettino, but a lot more than we’d been doing for the past couple of seasons.
I liked the way we were set up and the way we executed the plan. We should have had a draw at the least from that game, but it was a somewhat familiar story of failing to take chances that we created, then falling to a real sucker punch.
If we continue to play as we did on Saturday I’ll be pretty happy. It was far better to watch than we were for all of last season, and a lot of the one before. I’d also stick my neck out and say that if we do carry on in that vein we’ll win more than we lose. That’ll do for me.
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Flyd, my response was to the Ugly’ article saying we were more like the team from a few years ago.
We weren’t. We’re unrecognisable in formation and appraoch.
I don’t agree we pressed as a team more at all throughout the game. We had a good spell in the first half where, as is their plan, Leicester defended deep.
When Leicester players came into our individual players’ zone they pressed with energy.
Some individuals really came to the fore and we dominated for large parts in a part of the pitch that Leicester cede to every team they play - as part of their plan.
Don’t know if you saw Wolves, Fulham or Brighton play at the weekend. If you watch their game and then ours it’s clear we don’t press as a team and I’d suggest it’s by design and not a failing.
Before either of us draw season long conclusions from a single game, we played Leicester - a team renowned for counter attacking. We got forward, in part, because that is in their plan too.
I said much the same in the match day thread.
But I want more than winning more than we lose. I don’t want to be Stoke.
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And nor would I. But I wouldn’t say we played like Stoke on Saturday.
I didn’t mean to suggest that we did.
But you setting such a low bar of being happy with simply winning more games than we lose could describe any number of teams including Stoke under Hughes.
I want something more than results personally.
I think you’ve misunderstood me. I meant I’ll be happy if we continue to play in the style that we did on Saturday (which I enjoyed watching), and perform well (in terms of winning games) by doing so. It was at least as much about the style of play as it was about results, but I’d hardly be happy if we played brilliant football and lost loads of games.
Aye, lets put it in context, Puel’s season we finished 8th, got to the League Cup final yet the fans weren’t happy because we played shit football!!
So far we’ve been playing better football yet we’ve not had the results.
I can see both @Fowllyd’s and @saintbletch’s POVs
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Fucking fence-sitting sycophant. Just give Bletch both barrels and be done with it, FFS.
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I really would like to know where Bletch is getting his football punditry skills from? Has he been on a “Learn the Basics of Football Punditry in 30 days” course.
More likely someone bought him this for Christmas.
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He needs to be sitting on his seat…
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Yoof in the making