- May 28, 2014
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Looks like Winks and Hojbjerg are basically the same player, not enough from Dele and Kane (who played deep). This always looks weird when Lo Celso doesn't play or when Sissoko does. View attachment 73450
So Mourinho's half-time sub makes even less sense. After the match he said he pulled Dele because Everton were pressing high on Hojbjerg and Winks and leaving space behind Allan in midfield. He put Sissoko in to "exploit that space," but Dele was in that space. Also, Sissoko is not a midfielder, and he's certainly not creative (I will die on this hill).
We've got to figure out what the hell Moura is supposed to do. Why is he always over-running Kane? But why are our fullbacks over running our wingers? The fullbacks should be pushing up and looking inside to a creative attacker (Dele, Lo Celso, Lamela), not over running our wingers and pushing them inside. I saw multiple times where we had 3 attackers standing next to each other in the box with no midfielder to recycle and no wingers to keep width.
I'm really discouraged after yesterday because I disagree that it was a player problem, I don't see any identity in the formation or game plan.