- May 12, 2010
- 37,768
- 89,021
It's because our Poche is a boss and he holds no truck with ****s.
What’s up with Poch getting everything wrong in the first half lately. It honestly feels a bit deja vu. Fair enough, he fixes it in the second half, but it’s so damm difficult to get back in the game. We only managed to comeback against Fulham.
Also do they not train set pieces. We seriously cannot defend them at all. Like today they constantly let a Chelsea player stand completely open outside the box.
Shouldn’t they learn from their mistakes...
Why is Poch making so many tacticl errors and only correcting it at half time?
Has a horrible record in semi finals and big cup games as our manager. It's a constant stick he is beaten with. We have an amazingly talented squad and really should have won at least one cup by now.
I'm suggesting there remains huge questions marks over Poch's ability to get this team over the line. At the end of the day, we can look for all the excuses under the sun, but it keeps happening every season. Poch still hasn't won a trophy, progress seems to have stalled big time. We haven't learnt anything from our previous semi final defeats, we are still plucky losers.
Can’t have it both ways and say “ one of most talented squads” and then he’s won nothing. Ok there’s obviously mitigating circumstances tonight. But in recent years United won an FA cup and Europa Arsenal won FA cup both with worse squads than what pochettino has had. Great guy great coach at improving players. But tactically when it really matters still major doubts if he is a winner. This squad in last 5 years has been good enough to win something.
And fuck draws, draws are for losers.
Yes but good enough to challenge on all fronts? Do you not think that if he prioritised the league and fa cups over the league we would have got closer or bloody won one of those poxy trophies?
We can’t have it all with zero spend.
One of the reasons that we didn't make a big tactical switch until half time is because Poch's staff have a bunch of video clips put together of things done well and things done poorly so they can demonstrate exactly what they want from the players. Maybe that's something they can look at improving themselves - sending the team out with a couple of alternate plans in their heads that can be switched to. But we saw in the United game that making a structural change in mid-flow (after the Sissoko injury) contributed to the Rashford goal.
Seemed very odd to me that Kante got a free shot at goal which went in due to nobody being near him, and then at the start of the second half they had another identical chance. It also seems blatantly obvious to me that we need a player to occupy the space outside the far post when we have corners and free kicks when so many balls end up in that area. I also think we look a much better side with a back 3 and wingbacks, even moreso with Sissoko's energy in midfield.
Not sure how much of a semi final hoo doo it is, we just end up playing very good teams at that point who are historically better than us, spend more money and have managers that seem to be able to more tactically astute and managing them
It is no coincidence we keep losing them.
Although we were unlucky to go out on pens with all the injuries we had, Chelsea should have been home and dry over the two legs anyway
3 at the back is fine, but would that mean leaving out one of the front 4 (kane/eriksen/alli/son)?
4 at the back would be fine if we had decent full backs. rose if getting back to his best, but RB is a problem - trippier nowhere near good enough in a back 4.
I agree with all of that but think that at the moment we have Llorente up front and he really needs crosses in the box, so a back 3 would serve us well.
I didn't say it was a good tactic - it's just something that Poch's team does and might explain why we see bigger tactical changes at half time as opposed to in the middle of a half. I'm sure there are plenty of tweaks happening during the run of play anyway.I appreciate that, but its not a good tactic is it if Chelsea had scored 4 before half time =/