2020/21 Carlo Ancelotti

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ToffeeTim said:
People need to decide if they want results or attacking football because with these players you can't have both.

We are effective when we park the bus. We are a shambles when we tweak the system to be aggressive. Carlo needs to stop pandering to those demanding free flowing football and stick to his instincts which are that these players are unreliable and things need to be very simple for them.
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I can say with pretty decent confidence we can't really have either. I've seen defensive football so ugly I wanted to play Fallout 76 instead and we lose and I've seen us win with free flowing football. The reverse is true for both as well.

You can't make a definitive statement like that when it is patently false. We played open and nice footy for the first 7 matches of the year. Since then we have played relatively awful football and been average. We're up in the league because we gave ourselves a 15point cushion by playing the way you are saying we can't play.
 
BlueToff said:
I'm probably like a broken record but i've been looking at it every week now for the last 6 weeks and we've just fluctuated between 5th worst and 3rd worst. It's really bad.
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Wish he would change it up a bit - I mean stick Nkounkou at LW with Richarlison moved over onto the RW to atleast give that RW some kind of threat and have Digne & Nkounkou overlapping whipping balls into DCL.

Im sick of seeing Gomes & Iwobi do nothing in the midfield/out wide and Coleman should be at RB against the lesser sides all the time as even if he is finished he still occasionally can offer something positive with his runs forward.
 
kenada_blue said:
Been the same for a couple of seasons though. Gomes, Siggy, Iwobi, Bernard, don't create or score enough. We've got one creator and that's James...and he's injured.

Also...wing backs have been a huge issue. Digne either injured or suspended, Coleman injured = zero crosses.
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An issue with recruitment, yes.

But... you're not telling me Newcastle, West Ham, Fulham, Brighton etc have better attackers than us, mate.

We don't have an attacking structure that allows us to create chances. If you have that structure in place, then it means you don't have to rely on one or two players to create.
 
riddick said:
I can say with pretty decent confidence we can't really have either. I've seen defensive football so ugly I wanted to play Fallout 76 instead and we lose and I've seen us win with free flowing football. The reverse is true for both as well.

You can't make a definitive statement like that when it is patently false. We played open and nice footy for the first 7 matches of the year. Since then we have played relatively awful football and been average. We're up in the league because we gave ourselves a 15point cushion by playing the way you are saying we can't play.
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We had a fully fit squad. We haven't had that since week 5.

With injuries we have far too many unreliable players who can't cope under pressure or expectations.

Carlo should back his own judgement
 

hallamblue said:
I'm not sure what else he could have done tonight. They bossed the game until they went 2-0 up and then hit the post. That wasn't the team selection, that was the players.
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That was Carlo putting us in a diamond that left us completely exposed in midfield. Did you not notice that they stopped walking right through us when he moved Iwobi out wide? That first 30minutes was Carlo's idea of a good team out there.
 
BlueToff said:
An issue with recruitment, yes.

But... you're not telling me Newcastle, West Ham, Fulham, Brighton etc have better attackers than us, mate.

We don't have an attacking structure that allows us to create chances. If you have that structure in place, then it means you don't have to rely on one or two players to create.
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They don't have better, but they have a better balance.

We do the same monotonous thing over and over again and it's so easy to defend against. The only reason we ever score is because we have moments of quality - otherwise we're dreadful the majority of every game.

The last few games I haven't been able to see where a goal was coming from, even when we've miraculously won.
 
Tubey said:
We have no pace, and if James doesn't play or Sigurdsson has one of his one in twenty games performances, we have no invention either.

Glaring issues, can only hope fixed in the summer and we don't buy more Iwobis.
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It is an issue mate. We don't have the players in the squad to sort it, I know.

But, we shouldn't be creating less than Newcastle, should we, by the same token?

It's not even like it's a woolly stat, either. It's one you use to find how creative a team is.

As I've said, it's all about structure, to me. If you just have a few ways in which you can create opportunities, you're not so reliant on one or two players.

Davies showed it today. He got forward and drilled in a brilliant cross, and we scored.

But they should be working on those moves all of the time. It should always be there, ingrained in. Like muscle memory.

I'm seeing no evidence after 15 months that we've got anything of the sort and even with the caveats, I don't think that's good enough.
 
ToffeeTim said:
We had a fully fit squad. We haven't had that since week 5.

With injuries we have far too many unreliable players who can't cope under pressure or expectations.

Carlo should back his own judgement
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Until recently we've literally been missing just about 1 player from every match week. If our way to win is literally predicated on having a fully fit squad then what's the point? No team has a fully fit squad every single week and, SHOCKINGLY, some of them still play with attacking intent instead of whatever it is we are "trying" to do.
 

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