Ideal time to begin the Gana phase out, and I don’t say that because of the other night. I’ll happily have him start for us again, he apologised immediately, move on.
However his self-then-AFCON forced extended absence makes us try life without...
Not going to post more of these but he got it off the CBs a little against Spurs too and that was a disaster. Some of that is about how much settled possession we can actually have. I just don't see it as being structurally different yet. No two...
Here is Fulham (I'm skipping United because ten men isn't reflective):
Here is Sunderland:
Here is West Ham two months ago:
Nothing has really changed in a significant way. You can argue maybe we've just been playing 4-3-3 the whole time...
I really don’t know what people think they’re seeing when they say things like this. The system has not been changed in any meaningful way. Dewsbury-Hall has had a natural bias toward the left side the entire season.
Look the red card is the reason for this and I fully expect we would have had a different game without it but we didn’t have a shot after the goal. It’s just mythologizing what happened to say this was some kind of largely positive showing...