Come on Neiler, Silva now blames Wallcot coming off upset his plans, Another rubbish excuse! Tactics won't save us, you mean carry onwith the 4-2-3-1?
So we stay with Silve until when, lose more games, relegation, start winning , win a cup, please at one point should we act?
You can understand the thinking, Walcott is one if not the fastest players at the club, we saw how DCL pace upset both Ferdinandino and Otomendi neither known for their pace of subtly in defending and so it proved, it was a good decision o start with Walcott considering the match ups and the logic. Pace and penetration hurt City yesterday and Walcott would have added to it in my opinion.
I think what you are guilty of is looking at tactics as strict, they are much more fluid then that, very few teams play a whole game with a strict formation these days, they are more fluid depending on the momentum of the game and formations interchange as the game progresses, its not a set and forget because Sky has a team lining up a certain way in a graphic, yesterday alone we changed formation three or four times.
To what success?
Well we created as much as City and broke even all over the pitch, if not more then City and broke even on possession XG, XA etc, any day you do that you havnt had a bad day as a manager, we didnt win of course but the tactics were right, but it was the difference in the quality of player and finishing that dictated the result in my opinion.
