Caesium137
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Again, while I agree, it is exactly the same game.
Utilise what you have to carry sufficient threat to (hopefully consistently) trouble the opposition, whilst maintaining enough control at the other end to prevent the opposition creating too many chances.
He seems to have sussed out a way to do this against Leicester, Villa and Chelsea (once), and on plenty of occasions last season, but we don't have those players anymore.
In all the recent home games our shape and player utilisation hasn't worked at all, to get us looking comfortable (retaining the ball, not under much pressure, a two goal cushion etc).
I don't think he has done anything at all to address this, other than rotating a collection of attacking midfielders in the front four positions.
The squad he has available isn't as porous and as poor as our run of home results suggests, he could and should be getting more from them.
We've gone from a confidence boosting win that we could have hopefully built on, to one of our worst 45 minutes of football this season, because he chose to change formation and play people out of position, again. After the same sort of setup and personnel had been very poor and underwhelming at home in previous games.
The odd one off I could forgive more easily, it's been like this for months at home now pretty much, and he seems unwilling to, or incapable of making changes to our system (at home) that he is comfortable to do away or against PL teams.
I don't know why.
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