I just said in the Ten had thread, I think the defenders can as they have been a bright spot so far, but currently the midfield and attackers can't. Now I would like to believe the attackers can in the future, but I don't believe the midfield we currently see can - we didn't prioritise midfield in the summer.Of course. They are doing it together.
The question for me is whether this game model can work with the players we have. On paper it sounds great: high pressing, high defensive line, keep the ball well, attack with speed and numbers.
It sure isn‘t working right now, and the blame can‘t just be on Ten Hag because they are all working on it together.
There is something seriously wrong with how the tactics are performed on the pitch by the players.
Midfield overhaul is not complete, I agree. Fit upgrades on Eriksen and Casemiro are needed.I just said in the Ten had thread, I think the defenders can as they have been a bright spot so far, but currently the midfield and attackers can't. Now I would like to believe the attackers can in the future, but I don't believe the midfield we currently see can - we didn't prioritise midfield in the summer.
The main issue with the attackers is they seem very content to give up when it's not going their way and we have little depth to freshen it up. Midfield just has to be overhauled.
Well I think our intensity isn't there bar the defenders. Our midfield gets constantly run over and the attackers can't keep the ball, not sure how you solve that without changing personnel - that we don't have.Midfield overhaul is not complete, I agree. Fit upgrades on Eriksen and Casemiro are needed.
But I‘m not sure that that is the biggest issue. The way we collapse and fall apart points to other issues.
In the long term? Yes.I mean there's been all sorts of reports on how Wilcox is supposed to be influencing our game model, so he surely has to take some blame for how we set up?
The players certainly are one aspect, but the tactics and coaching have at least as big of an impact. There's plenty of teams with worse players than us holding the ball and playing better football than we are, using superior positioning, movement and patterns of play to move the ball around.Well I think our intensity isn't there bar the defenders. Our midfield gets constantly run over and the attackers can't keep the ball, not sure how you solve that without changing personnel - that we don't have.
Akin to saying that whilst we're still shit, we're not as shit.In the long term? Yes.
In the short term? No. He's not the one training the players. He's not the one naming the line-up. He's not holding ETH's hand on every decision on game-day, and going into the minute details. My understanding is that he will be going into more detail than Ashworth about the playstyle and tactics, but it's still going to be on the larger scale while it's up to the manager to implement it and handle the specifics. If the manager then proves unable to implement it, Wilcox will most likely be the main one deciding why it's failed (is it due to the manager, the coaching staff, the players, etc) and then reporting back to Ashworth and Berrada. Then the three of them will decide what to do from there.
While we aren't playing well, we aren't using the suicidal one-man midfield like we were last season, and we aren't as ridiculously open and easy to cut through (van de Ven notwithstanding). That very well may be due to Wilcox discussing it with ETH, and ETH then adjusting his tactics accordingly. But he's not going to be going into very specific details.
He's supposed to be doing that but I highly doubt he has as much input in how we play simply because Ten Hag seems very pig headed and probably wont even entertain it as he will see it as a challenge to his authority.I mean there's been all sorts of reports on how Wilcox is supposed to be influencing our game model, so he surely has to take some blame for how we set up?
