30-07-2022, 13:20
From a neutral point of view, who would have liked you to win really I thought just about everything was wrong with you in the first half. You were outclassed by a decent team Vincent Kompany is set to improve. They beat you with a lad up front who looked well below the standard required. Yesterday I did my predictions for EFL final tables and I put Burnley 2nd and you 19th. I might put Burnley up a place if I were doing it today. You, well a snake would be more likely than a ladder.
Russell looked bereft without O'Brien's work rate alongside him. Thomas wasn't getting the ball, but when he did he couldn't even manage dead-ball delivery to anything like his own high standard. You might as well pick me as select Koroma and tell him to stay out wide. He has to get inside to do his thing. You can't possibly score enough goals with Danny Ward as a lone front runner. The side selected struggled at the back against a forward threat Kompany will strengthen, Cullen and Maatsen took you apart in the middle of the park, out wide you delivered nothing, and up front you were powder-puff light. The second half gave you Rudoni, who looks a player, but you have to let him come inside more, Tino looked powerful and dangerous, but lacking a plan of action in his head, his efforts could be swallowed up by sheer weight of numbers. The gap between the two sides remained nearly the length of the division sadly.
I fear you might soon by taunting your manager with, "you don't know what you're doing," because I'm not sure he does. He's got a fairly impossible act to follow with a weaker cast list, as I'm sure you all realise. At one point I was considering your chances of recalling Kyle Hudlin from AFCW. But panic would be silly. Certainly you need to strengthen weak areas, but you also need to make those areas, in which you were very strong last season, work for you once more. Thomas is allowed one bad game - make sure that is all it is, and surround Russell with workaholic, ball-winning, enthusiastic partners, so that his perceptive play might give the forward player/S!!! you choose, space and something to work with. Luckily you won't play Burnley every week. Luckily you got away with a 0-1 you weren't worth. Oh I do wish you well. I loved how you surprised everybody last season. I don't want you to do a Barnsley.
Russell looked bereft without O'Brien's work rate alongside him. Thomas wasn't getting the ball, but when he did he couldn't even manage dead-ball delivery to anything like his own high standard. You might as well pick me as select Koroma and tell him to stay out wide. He has to get inside to do his thing. You can't possibly score enough goals with Danny Ward as a lone front runner. The side selected struggled at the back against a forward threat Kompany will strengthen, Cullen and Maatsen took you apart in the middle of the park, out wide you delivered nothing, and up front you were powder-puff light. The second half gave you Rudoni, who looks a player, but you have to let him come inside more, Tino looked powerful and dangerous, but lacking a plan of action in his head, his efforts could be swallowed up by sheer weight of numbers. The gap between the two sides remained nearly the length of the division sadly.
I fear you might soon by taunting your manager with, "you don't know what you're doing," because I'm not sure he does. He's got a fairly impossible act to follow with a weaker cast list, as I'm sure you all realise. At one point I was considering your chances of recalling Kyle Hudlin from AFCW. But panic would be silly. Certainly you need to strengthen weak areas, but you also need to make those areas, in which you were very strong last season, work for you once more. Thomas is allowed one bad game - make sure that is all it is, and surround Russell with workaholic, ball-winning, enthusiastic partners, so that his perceptive play might give the forward player/S!!! you choose, space and something to work with. Luckily you won't play Burnley every week. Luckily you got away with a 0-1 you weren't worth. Oh I do wish you well. I loved how you surprised everybody last season. I don't want you to do a Barnsley.