Never mind a pre-season, we've got a "post-season" to get through first. I just can't make myself care about this trip to Australia, and that's just watching it. I can't imagine how unbothered the players are, especially if the season ends on a disappointing note.
That and a particularly bad quarter finals showing. To have 5 clubs go into the stage across all 3 competitions and only 1 progress (in the naffest of the competitions) is shameful, considering how mighty the Premier League thinks it is.
Agree. He keeps trying to convince everyone that set pieces are part and parcel of a philosophy but they can and arguably should be treated as totally separate parts of the game. If that means breaking them away from your overall philosophy and coaching them separately (with actual dedicated...
I think the feeling is made worse because we started so well and the expectation (or mine, certainly) was that we would get Micky and Maddison back in January and everything would just click again (or, if not then, after AFCON and The Asian Cup) and it... just didn't happen and still hasn't...
I largely agree with everything else you said but the issues with the corner defending are being repeated because it keeps happening and no improvement has been seen.
This is what he said at the start of March when he was asked directly about it:
If it had been addressed since then, we'd...
We did but those "few moments" cost us 3 goals. Spend the time fixing that issue (changing who's coaching set pieces, bringing specialists in, whatever), concede fewer goals, and give us less of a mountain to climb.
People who want Ange gone now or at the end of the season are mad but I don't like seeing (entirely valid) concerns that have been raised after the majority of our matches since January (and more occasionally, before) dismissed as "knee jerk reactions". How can that be knee jerk?
Of course Ange...
That was fairly obvious before their first goal - you could see White reaching to Vicario's wrist, the only conclusion was that he had undone (or tried to undo) the velcro strap on his glove.
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