I've no issue with criticism, it's baseless made up opinions etc that I was replying too from poster who was actually replying to the possession comment. Sorry you feel offended by me exercising my freedom to opinion too.
Your post is a contradiction in a way. Ajax dominated the ball because of better players you say. But you are expecting us to dominate teams who maybe have better players and a better team than us currently.
Then when we dominate the ball like yesterday, you are make excuses for it. Near sure the first half stats showed we dominated the possession as well, but you are claiming Newcastle dominated us, when nothing Is pointing to that. If anything Newcastle in that 2nd half where playing like a plucky team down the league trying to survive for points. They are currently a point behind us in the league so it was clash against a team who have scored a lot of goals in the last 2 games and are currently completing with us on the table.
I honestly not sure what you are even arguing about.
I don't feel offended, I welcome different opinions I'm just saying for your own benefit it's not a good look bashing and generalising the entire fanbase calling them morons and children if they don't all believe the sun shines out of the managers backside after what we've been subjected to so far which has been a mixed bag of mediocre performances and games where we've looked coherent as a team.
I don't see how I contradicted myself, Ajax had a far superior squad to all of the 18 teams of the league. bar Feyenoord and PSV. All the rest of league were championship level and that's even a push. In that environment he could afford play players out of position, not have to make difficult mid game changes while his star studded ajax team were wheeled out to bully and dominate less quality teams week in week out
He doesn't have that luxury here in the premiership. Most of the teams in the premiership are fearless and are accustomed to pressing and have squads filled with internationals, not semi professionals and part timers so being tactically astute and flexibility is imperative to success
He can't afford to keep playing players in different roles trying to force them to play a way they are not suited as we've seen with fred, Rashford and early in the first few games where he played eriksen as a cdm.
Former ajax manager Aad De Mos seems to think he has quite a few flaws which we some of us ''children' and ''morons' have picked up on
De Mos “I think that Ten Hag does not read the match well, as always.
“It takes far too long before Erik ten Hag strikes with his substitutions. He already did that too late in Lisbon. Brian Brobbey should be brought in much earlier. He didn’t have to substitute [Sebastian] Haller, but if you could have just added him as an extra striker, they would have been in trouble.
“You also have to show some guts in these kinds of games and not hide in your dugout. You have to have some fire show up, get to that line and stir things up a little bit when things get messy in the field. And that was it. You helped Benfica into the saddle by playing the game they like. It’s all too noncommittal at Ajax.''
Now we have seen lack of intensity in games, we have seen him dither and not make any changes until late ina game when it's been calling for changes to be made earlier. In the first half we actually out worked by Newcastle and only made a sub in the 72 min
Imagine if he brought Rashford on earlier we might have had a better chance of winning the match when it was clear things were not working out for Ronaldo. And why isn't Ten Hag telling his player to stop trying to force feed everything to Ronaldo? That's what hurt us the most, players not playing for the team but playing instead to serve ronaldo. Was that a direct command from ten hag or are the players doing their own thing?
