2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

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bluestevon said:
Tosun is a decent solid all round CF, whose a very good finisher.

Top 6 calibre team he's not starting.
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I think he'd be closer than we think. I'm not sure he's that far behind Firmino, he works incredibly hard, links play well. He probably lacks a yard of pace. I think he surprises a few though. You can't dispute the lads work rate as well and hopefully if we take 2 years to establish ourselves in the top 6 he will be fine for that.

My gut feeling is Richarlinson may move inside. Tosun will hold fort until he is ready to do so.
 

Prevenger17 said:
City, Liverpool and Chelsea will utterly bum us if we defend like we did yesterday. Thankfully we have a much gentler run in than last season and there's time to iron out the enormous kinks
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Maybe yes. But spurs gave up lots more chances to Fulham yesterday than we did against Southampton. There's more to come here. Lots more. And there will be a bump or two. But I'm glad we are actually trying to be a dynamic football team.
 
havrey0123 said:
Even with mina and zouma at the back.
There's sometimes 3 or 4 players in the box when we attack waiting for a cross which is great, but if we lose the ball were vunerable to the counter.

It's essentially klopp/guradiola tactics but the problem is teams fear them, if we play that way they take us on.

Ings could of had a hat trick yesterday and wolves when we went down to 10 never got bodies in the box to score.

There's going to be a lot of 3-2/4-3 games this season.

He started the same way at Watford, teams then sat deep and waited for the chance to attack on the counter.
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He has managed us for 2 games with only one new player fully introduced.

He is using the same players that failed disastrously last season.

He will need time to fully implement and in still how he wants us to play. Some players will adapt and others will fall short.

We appear to have a very astute DOF now who will identify players with the necessary skill set to fit if we need to replace.

Both Guardiola and Klopp had issues early on and have taken time to get in the players they desired to make their system work effortlessly. We are starting from a much further back starting point but the signs are very encouraging.

Regarding the Watford point he had neither the players or the recruitment pull to execute a long term plan there. He showed a glimpse of what is possible and that was enough to convince our owner that with the right financial backing he could be successful here.

Time will tell.
 
GwladysBlue said:
I think a lot of the hate for Allardyce comes from his arrogance. He even said himself that he knew he’d be going in March, but he continued to goad the fanbase.

Sam let himself down. He had a chance to play with his tactics when we were safe and we probably should have finished 7th, but he kept to the same old tired tactics he’d always deployed.

Let’s not forget Steve Walsh’s role in the debacle. Another charlatan who overseen the chaos.

I don’t want to jump the gun, but there seems to be a clear plan for us now.
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Possibly because, as he said, he knew he was going.
 

havrey0123 said:
Problem with Silva's style of play is it gives the opposition too many chances to score.
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We barely gave Wolves a sniff all game. I wouldn’t say Southamoton had loads of chances either. Those they did have really came from individual mistakes (Pickford dropping it, players not being in there zone etc) and will be ironed out in time, on the training ground and with the addition of 3 new defenders to our back 4.

Marco has already said early season will be like our preseason so if we can keep putting points on the board in an impressive fashion, as we did yesterday, it all looks very promising indeed.
 
Kev The Rat said:
thought this guy would get found out immedietly but he has made a reasonable start. it was obvious from the Wolves game that he had instilled a better attitude in the players. its still very early and could all still fall apart.

2 things - Richarlison has scored 3 of our 4 goals, and we haven't kept a clean sheet yet.
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I agree we shouldn’t get carried away but my god, it’s ok to be reasonably happy so far.
 
Toffe3m4n said:
Absolutely this. That was an awful goal to concede given the manner in which it was conceded. I can just foresee us conceding loads this season from set pieces and it'll be the same old story.

'Zonal' marking is a joke and it'd be a travesty if we didn't get the likes of Mina & Zouma man-to-man on set pieces considering their size & physicality.
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I agree and what worries me most is that it's not just Martinez who has shown as manager to have a weakness in this area. That Chris Wood header at Turf Moor last season to make it 2-1 was disgraceful from a defensive viewpoint with Williams and Keane just allowing him to stand in front of them and it was the same yesterday.

Regardless of whether zonal marking is any good though, I just cannot understand how any centre half who plays even to a half decent standard can think they can set up to a defend a corner and not even bother checking where their main attacking threat is positioned. For me, they are the most culpable but it's that basic I blame any of our outfield players who were in our own area and didn't do anything about it. Genuinely one of the worst goals I have seen us concede from a defensive viewpoint in the last 10+ years given how preventable it was.
 
Although frustrated with the defensive errors yesterday, attacking wise we were excellent. Carved them open on several occasions and think there will be a number of games this season where we will score 3 or 4 at Goodison with Walcott, Richarlison, Tosun and Sigurdsson linking up.
 
Kev The Rat said:
thought this guy would get found out immedietly but he has made a reasonable start. it was obvious from the Wolves game that he had instilled a better attitude in the players. its still very early and could all still fall apart.

2 things - Richarlison has scored 3 of our 4 goals, and we haven't kept a clean sheet yet.
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Good reasoning that Kev.
Hardly any goals last season from anywhere , so we sign someone that can score....then moan about it .
Way to go that Kev.
 

EFC78 said:
I agree and what worries me most is that it's not just Martinez who has shown as manager to have a weakness in this area. That Chris Wood header at Turf Moor last season to make it 2-1 was disgraceful from a defensive viewpoint with Williams and Keane just allowing him to stand in front of them and it was the same yesterday.

Regardless of whether zonal marking is any good though, I just cannot understand how any centre half who plays even to a half decent standard can think they can set up to a defend a corner and not even bother checking where their main attacking threat is positioned. For me, they are the most culpable but it's that basic I blame any of our outfield players who were in our own area and didn't do anything about it. Genuinely one of the worst goals I have seen us concede from a defensive viewpoint in the last 10+ years given how preventable it was.
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Well we have moved two on - Martinez and Williams.
 

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