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I don’t think it was, they beat a handful of terrible teams. Our recent run has been weirder because we’ve beaten Chelsea and United and actually won an away game at a decent Leicester side. We’ve only lost to the 2nd best team in Europe in our last 6.
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But better teams didn’t beat us comfortably?
When Carlo Ancelotti arrived. Being the absolute class manager he was. He said in an interview a third of the way into the season that out of the two ways to play football if you boil it down is play with possession or sit in and counter he said that he chose us to sit deep and counter because out the two choices we were really poor in possession. Don't have the right players or quick enough defenders and wing backs to effectively play quickly and to recover from a high line. Zero creativity. Players not talented enough to play with the ball quickly enough to break the lines.

So he chose countering.


That is a world class manager choosing what he thinks his squad can do the best and focusing on that.

Thats actually what we good at.

So it makes sense that we do ok against bigger teams because they generally have the most ball and when we come up against a team that gives us all the ball. We are useless.
 

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