Well if we're talking about the context of our squad performance, it's quite easy to point to we're creating chances that we're not finishing? The fact we're outperforming our xGA (which pretty much all teams are in the league) means my point about our defence being good holds up too? Not scoring your chances affects the whole team and scoring half of the chances you create shows an obvious issue in the squad - one that a lot of people highlighted in the summer. We are conceding too many chances, but 4.59 xAG of those came from the Spurs game, so that also needs context.
I think it's fair for many people to have accepted that he should get another chance given he'd won trophies, the second by beating the best team in the league in the final, and he'd shown an ability to have the team play a different way in that game.
It's what needs to happen, and you need a manager that inspires and motivates that work ethic.
Basically we've played 2 good teams this season and we got dismantled by both. AT HOME.
If you add this context, you also have to accept a significant chunk of that xGA comes in a single game when we were down to 10 though.
It is unbelievable that he still has supporters who "believe" in him. We have less points than arguably the only club in the league that has been run even worse than us in the last decade. 15 games is not a small sample size FFS, it is 40% of a full season!
You already expected 0-3 home losses to Spurs and Liverpool where the scores could've been even worse if one of them didn't start geting cocky in front of our goal and the other didn't have Timo Werner?
No, I expected our midfield to have to have the same problems it did last season and against the better teams in the league it would be a big problem.
Who?
Bournemouth play quite a direct style which could work well with the players we have. But with managers like Iraola, Hasenhuttl and Bielsa, they play with such an intense press that it requires complete buy in from the players for it to be effective. Unfortunately I'm not sure the players would completely buy in to that and probably wouldn't work.
I think it's fair to say that when he took over, but one of Iraola's biggest strengths so far at Bournemouth is how much he's improved players individually. Semenyo's performances for nearly a year now have been absolutely brilliant and he's getting better and better so I can't accept that he's anywhere near a Championship level player. I rate him really highly and I reckon by the end of the season there's gonna be links to bigger clubs.
It really is a brilliant imageThat analogy made me laugh out loud
but the football is atrocious and personally I'm not keen to see him around for another week. Would happily take anything other than Southgate- hell ask ChatGPT to replace him for a game and let it give the instructions. ten Hag signed Casemiro, Mount, and Ugarte. We also have Mainoo (one of England's biggest talents) and Bruno Fernandes. If there's anyone to blame for a completely dysfunctional midfield, it's ten Hag.
Considering this is a glaring weakness that every blind man and his blind dog can see, what has ETH tried to do to ensure that against the better teams in the league (so, about 7 of them) 'big problem' is not the same as 'cricket score'?
Klopp himself didn't think it would be possible to succeed here. I wanted us to go for Conte instead of ten Hag but it would've probably been an even bigger disaster than Jose. There's a common theme with all the examples you've given and that's how the club has been run.
You're joking, aren't you? The majority of folk on here wanted ten Hag to keep the job after the FA Cup final (the poll whether to keep or sack completely reversed. It was mental). There was a huge swell of broad support from the fan base (Paddock in particular have been embarrassingly defensive of ten Hag until recently - specifically Joe). Utterly bizarre situation and we've fecked ourselves not just for this season, but in terms of drastically reducing our options moving forward.Well so far it's 2 own goals to the new "Structure".
I honestly can't believe we've moved on from the Glazers bankers and got even worse ditherers with so called "football" men.
It's just like after the fa cup when every man and his dog knew what should have happened but we got silence for a month while they were doing the completely unnecessary "review". They're probably doing another.
The common theme is all of the managers we have hired haven't been up to the job. What have any of them done since getting sacked here? The square root of feck all.
Perfect summary, describes every game this season without any of the ifs and buts that ultimately don't matter (for every 'if' or 'should have' we might claim, the opposition could say the same).
Bang on. The "first half against Palace" thing still annoys me when people say it shows that we can play great under Ten Hag, and it's a glimmer of hope. We didn't even fecking score.
