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    Player Watch Player Watch: Dejan Kulusevski

    If we got a good offer I’d be willing to sell him. Go and get Johan Bakayoko for RW.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    For sure mate and I’ve said previously we do still need to tweak something to help us deal with transitions better. That could be a tactical tweak along with signing a defensively stronger 6. But too often in attack we don’t even turn our possession in to a proper chance with a shot at goal or...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    And again a big part of the reason we struggled is because as I said our entire front 3 can’t retain possession or do anything on the ball, they all need to run away from it to be effective.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Great example. We work the ball brilliantly to create a 4 vs 3 overload and…… nothing comes of it because our front 3 are crap in possession.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Even against Newcastle in the opening part of the game we had the ball and created 2 massive chances for Werner. And one of the massive reasons we struggled to build up against them as the game went on is exactly because the front 3 do not have the balance and mix of skills. Every single one of...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    If you can’t see that against both Scum and Pool today we actually built up and got it through to the attack loads of times only for moves to completely break down in the final third, then we will never agree on this.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Perisic consistently came off the bench for little cameos and affected games like the home game against Sheff Utd. Solomon featured a fair bit until his injury including a start away to Burnley and he got 2 assists that day.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    We partially implemented it but actually Ange kept saying we were nowhere near where he wanted and our front third still wasn’t working. He’s maintained that all season. Our attack has been badly balanced the entire season, it’s just showing up clearer now. But there are quite a few of us who...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    It is clear as day, I’ve been pulling my hair out about it all season. Brentford and Palace have better balanced attacks than we do.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    You try to implement your style and vision for the sake of the whole club and work on individuals as best you can. Then you upgrade them and add in the right profiles along the way, just like Klopp and Arteta did. Some of the players will be coachable, some will simply lack the fundamental...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Enthusiasm and fresh energy had some of the players performing above their level/super high. Add to that our tactics were new and managers had to adapt. If you go back and watch our early games, in my opinion the front 3 still wasn’t working well and it was the rest of the team overperforming...
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    Player Watch: Emerson Royal

    Skipp put him to shame and he was also out of position, even more so because he’s a midfielder.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Genuinely amazed if people can’t see that. It wouldn’t solve every single issue but it would take a massive amount of pressure off the defence and minimise the amount of counters against us. I think a lot of people look at football like oh they concede loads defence is shit or score loads so...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    He is spot on though. We started the game well and were moving the ball around quickly and with intensity. The issue is every single time it reached the final third it died and we didn’t turn our good play in to chances. This broke down everything and was the catalyst for Pool then punishing...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Great thread here which nails a lot of our problems
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