12-09-2020, 05:59 PM
(12-09-2020, 05:21 PM)Shawoddyred Wrote: I honestly don't get it. If the opposition know you aren't planning to be attacking then it just makes things very simple for them. We start playing after conceding every single match these days but we don't practise the attacking play in games because we never do it for entire games. The defensive tactics work until other teams work out that you are very defensive, lo and behold, they all seem to have learnt after a really good half a season last year and had played us once each.
We needed to change after the second half of last season, we haven't at all, we can't continue to play this way. It makes literally no sense and will not work, we could have Bale on the wing and Benzema up top, we would not score enough goals to do well with these tactics and Sabri would not play any other way with those players at his disposal.
Sabri is a nice guy, and his tactics would be brilliant for a lower team in the prem, where the opposition attack to win the game. But we are a talented team for the league we are in and so teams do not attack us all out, meaning we cannot 'play on the counter'. He should go to Wet Spam or Burnley or something like that. Sabri at a carp club would be awful for the big teams to play against.
Seems ridiculous to say after a single game (and I do agree) but he is clearly too stubborn in the way he sets up. The good thing is, I believe we have some excellent players at the club, I believe another manager would have us winning a lot more than we lose or draw!
Agreed.
SA.