- Sep 15, 2007
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Its been building up I fear.
Thev Liverpool game was lost through a couple of silly errors - but should have been won.
The Inter game - I think we saw an inexperienced manager (Acamemia 1 year, Porto 1 year even with great success, Chelse 1 year reality check) panic with the loss of Bale and put out a clusterfuck team selection (causing the majority of the team to be knackered after 120 minutes), learn maybe a little from that to keep Dembele in the middle but panic again over lack of width to which his solution of BAE as a LW was not great, and it maybe went downhiill from there.
IMO, part of the problem goes back to the first half of the season - he was totally averse to playing any of the 20/21 year old players we have in abundance who are tearing apart every other PL side. Had he done so, he would have found he had some 20/21 year old good players - and maybe even after loaning out lots of them he had a genuine RW (Ryan Fredericks) who played 3 or 4 games in Europa League lasdt seasoin and Dean Parrett, a decent boix to biox midfielder. Both could have been involved in the last couple of games and added the extraplayers to prevent apparantly fatigued players. Again IMO its a sign of inexperience that he's not uinvolved thenm more (the likes of Man U under Fergusson have involved their u 21's more) resulting in a tired squad.
I hope the 2 week international break will allow AVB the time to work out what went wrong with his tactics (someone please send him a link to SC please) and to work with the players not on international duty - and start to involve the best of the younger players in training so as to enlarge the available squad.
If AVB does that the position is very recoverable.
Thev Liverpool game was lost through a couple of silly errors - but should have been won.
The Inter game - I think we saw an inexperienced manager (Acamemia 1 year, Porto 1 year even with great success, Chelse 1 year reality check) panic with the loss of Bale and put out a clusterfuck team selection (causing the majority of the team to be knackered after 120 minutes), learn maybe a little from that to keep Dembele in the middle but panic again over lack of width to which his solution of BAE as a LW was not great, and it maybe went downhiill from there.
IMO, part of the problem goes back to the first half of the season - he was totally averse to playing any of the 20/21 year old players we have in abundance who are tearing apart every other PL side. Had he done so, he would have found he had some 20/21 year old good players - and maybe even after loaning out lots of them he had a genuine RW (Ryan Fredericks) who played 3 or 4 games in Europa League lasdt seasoin and Dean Parrett, a decent boix to biox midfielder. Both could have been involved in the last couple of games and added the extraplayers to prevent apparantly fatigued players. Again IMO its a sign of inexperience that he's not uinvolved thenm more (the likes of Man U under Fergusson have involved their u 21's more) resulting in a tired squad.
I hope the 2 week international break will allow AVB the time to work out what went wrong with his tactics (someone please send him a link to SC please) and to work with the players not on international duty - and start to involve the best of the younger players in training so as to enlarge the available squad.
If AVB does that the position is very recoverable.