- Jun 7, 2004
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Well, obviously. He's playing a different style because our strikers are both injured! He's not doing it to be perverse. We can't play with any of his preferred tactics, in the absence of a striker.For me it's not just the absences. It's the fact that Jose has tried to play a different style to mitigate them, and it doesn't work with our weak defence and everchanging CMs. Maybe long term it will be a good plan B (and we do need one!), but probably needs to be shelved until preseason.
The defence was simply chaotic today. The change of defensive formation made fuck-all difference, it was just that we had the ball most of the time in the second half. The individual defenders weren't playing together and every one of them made multiple technical mistakes, especially when clearing the ball, or rather attempting to clear the ball. It was Keystone Kops defensively, throughout the match.