I think the change of style is going to take fans a while to get used to as well. We have less control, and there is more chaos. But that also means (Saturday apart) we’ve looked very threatening and scored lots of goals
£183m in more Igors, Dahouds and Fatis and we’d be in a very bad place. Am very happy that TB told him to sling his hook we are trusting TBs recruitment methods again.
Good summary. The deeper we go in the Carabao cup the more chance he will have to learn about the fringe players, those returning from injury and the newer signings. He will also be looking at any gaps to be filled in January.
Agree……Dunk and JPVH in the centre and that probably doesn’t happen.
I think we all know. He'd have wasted it, as he did on Ansu Fati and Igor. He'd then have moaned for six months that £183m wasn't enough.
I didn’t go to last night’s game so I can’t comment on the performance. I have been to three of our four league matches. My opinion is that we are still bedding in on tactics, style of play and team selection. With anything that’s new it takes time to become the finished article. What is promising is the abundance of talent that we now have and it’s showing. Early days I know but the results have gone our way - who would have predicted that after four games we’d be sixth in the table, no defeats and eights points from twelve. Okay, it’s fair to say that it takes ten games to assess a team’s true potential but as it stands we’re not doing too badly. There, that’s me with my glass half full of confidence for the future.
When they went to 10 men, yes.
How can you expect these top 6 to maintain their dominance despite spending twice as much as everyone else, if they might have to risk difficult fixtures in order to get trophies?
I expect the rules allow a re draw if they don’t get who and where they want to play, or a “top 6 override”
And it's right and proper that, that should happen
When they had 10 we battered them. Do people expect us to go and dominate. We had more possession than them first half. We had half as many shots (and one of their’s was yard offside so would not have counted) and they scored a pretty jammy goal when the ball hit Saka on the back and broke nicely.
Much quicker transition I think - moving the ball forward at pace, either with Baleba/others barrelling forward or pinging quick passes. More likely to go wrong as a result (higher risk) but more likely to create chances. Under DeZ it was more ‘controlled’, with seemingly almost every situation having a ‘drill’ that needed to be followed. Really interesting to see how this develops once the players we’ve signed to do this even better are fit/integrated.
Yes, right from the start of the season I was disturbed by the lack of control we had compared to Potter and RDZ but I think this is all part of the way that Fabian wants to play. High pressing, quicker forward movement and responses from transitions.
It is worth noting that our form for the last 15 games of last season was virtually relegation standard. So, we have seen improvement.
