This so called "new style" seems to be a thing of myth because i'm not seeing it, we also seem to be getting worse as the season goes on, not improving like you would expect us to. On top of that after 4-5 months of "working hard" you would of thought that they would be getting pretty familiar with it by now, instead they look more and more lost and void of ideas with each passing game.
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This so called "new style" seems to be a thing of myth because i'm not seeing it, we also seem to be getting worse as the season goes on, not improving like you would expect us to. On top of that after 4-5 months of "working hard" you would of thought that they would be getting pretty familiar with it by now, instead they look more and more lost and void of ideas with each passing game.
Injuries have affected that to be fair, they haven't actually all been working on it for 4-5 months together which is a problem.
I don't think he thrives with having such big share of the responsibilities in the attacking department. He gets the ball in a less than optimal position and we see a risky pass or a long shot towards goal.
There are two problems:
1) He was world-class in one role. Now he has to play in a completely different role. He is not a striker and he is only a good (not a world-class) winger.
2) He is a player who naturally wants to take risks. LvG on the other side wants to minimize the risk of losing the ball, so he restricts his players. He doesn’t want that his teams loses the ball in the middle of the park so he tells his players to play it save in most areas. Players are only allowed to take certain risks in specific areas (wings/at the very front). That’s why LvG hesitates to use Di Maria as midfielder.
LvG has to rethink his tactics or di Maria has to grow into a new role.
1) He was world-class in one role. Now he has to play in a completely different role. He is not a striker and he is only a good (not a world-class) winger.
2) He is a player who naturally wants to take risks. LvG on the other side wants to minimize the risk of losing the ball, so he restricts his players. He doesn’t want that his teams loses the ball in the middle of the park so he tells his players to play it save in most areas. Players are only allowed to take certain risks in specific areas (wings/at the very front). That’s why LvG hesitates to use Di Maria as midfielder.
LvG has to rethink his tactics or di Maria has to grow into a new role.
Why LvG plays him up front when its quite clear to see it doesn't work is beyond me. I mean he's not even a goalscorer like Robben. Complete waste of his talents.
If he wanted pace up front, he should have fecking kept Welbeck. Di Maria's a shit striker and Rooney is an average midfielder. Why play both out of position?
If he wanted pace up front, he should have fecking kept Welbeck. Di Maria's a shit striker and Rooney is an average midfielder. Why play both out of position?
Does it really take such a long period of time to get used to new tactics and playing style though? The injury problems seem like a convenient excuse to me. I'm not saying that they haven't had an effect but the fact that the manger stated he could only play a certain way because of injured players to only continue doing so once those those players were available again, proves that it's just his way he wants the team set up and not because of who's available.
Yeah, it seemed to take chelsea a whole season. Liverpool half a season, before they started playing great stuff under Rodgers too.
The only way we will get the best out of Di Maria is to play him as the third man in midfield and let him roam forward.
To be fair, pretty much every top level professional footballer will be able to do that in a non pressure situation.
If he had that touch on Sunday would have been through 1:1
That really isn't anything at all. You'd see young academy lads doing that at the weekend
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Why is Di maria playing as a striker? This is becoming ridiculous. Welbeck, Hernandez and even Bebe, Nani and zaha would have done a better job from what I have seen.
Dont care how much he costs, if he doesnt get back in midfield he should be on the bench, he adds close to nothing for a while now.
We're wasting/ruining one of the games stellar talents.
LVG is killing his confidence.
So frustrating to see us wasting him like this. Especially when all he needs to do is swap him with Rooney. It's this kind of stubbornness that's doing him no favours at all.
You can't put it down to simply him being striker. He's playing unbelievably poor. Don't know what's wrong with him.
Looks like someone with PTSD compared to his first few games.
He's not a striker.. no shit
He isn't a striker who can hold up the ball.
So one time Di Maria finally runs at the defence at the 40th-odd minute mark we get 2 corners. Still don't understand why he's playing as a striker.
Yes you can
Every time he's got on the ball in deeper positions he's looked dangerous.
It's so fecked up to play him as a striker in this horrible system of LVG.
Today is the first time I'm actually starting to doubt LVG. Surely he MUST see what he's doing to our best players?
It's so fecked up to play him as a striker in this horrible system of LVG.
Today is the first time I'm actually starting to doubt LVG. Surely he MUST see what he's doing to our best players?
There's nothing wrong with him. This is Di Maria, he's either really good or really bad (insane number of turnovers). No middle ground. Still, the problem is in the manager. Even when he sucks he can create something from the deep. As a forward, he simply sucks.
We sign a world class midfielder and play him upfront, might as well play Wilson instead.
No you can't. You have seen the first half right, what's having a poor first touch losing the ball when there is no pressure got to do with 'not being a striker'? Some of the things he did wrong the first half, if he did this in midfield QPR would've had a field day.
The one time he was actually able to come deep and take someone on he made a cute one-two with Valencia and almost created our most dangerous chance of the half. We'll keep lumping it at him with Onuoha at his back and take him off at the 70th minute, though.
No you can't. It doesn't help but you don't suddenly turn shit at everything because you're playing out of position.
Wasted. We're playing the league record signing up front who so far in his career, has never managed to score more than 11 goals in a season. While we have our captain playing in midfield who hasn't scored less than 16 goals in a season since he was 18.
Yeah, he doesn't want to be here.
But but, it's because he plays as a striker than he can't control the ball.
Waste of money.
He's not a striker!! Why doesn't LVG accept this? We're wasting the talents of one of the best players in the world.
The 60M Nani
He is really terrible at the moment, judging by his performance he wouldn't get into QPR's 18 but I really don't want to blame him, or any other player anymore, everything is just ridiculous.
No, his movement being offside and looking uncomfortable, that's down to playing as a striker. But his first touch and some of his passing are inconsistent in all the positions he plays.
He's always been like this, and the one moment where it all works out can and will change a match, so I'm not that worried.
He's always been like this, and the one moment where it all works out can and will change a match, so I'm not that worried.
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