Highfather_24
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God only know where these people get such nonsense from. That being said, football is a results business, which mean if you're not winning, tactically, something is wrong.
Ole always stressed the importance of a strong foundation. He's mentioned a few times that titles are won from a strong defence. At the moment, we're anything but, conceding 15 in 9 games.
What Ole should be doing now is changing something because whatever he's doing at present clearly isn't working.
It's almost as if he's got in his head that because he's in his third season, he has to win games a certain way because he's managing United, but since he's been here, he's won games by being quite pragmatic and hard to beat.
This season, we're pressing up the pitch (not in an organised way) and we're getting picked off left, right and centre, even with McTominay and Fred at the base.
Now, it seems that the board are going to stick with Ole, and he will have my full support, but it will infuriate me if he goes with the same system against Spurs on Saturday.
We need to go back to the drawing board, be hard to beat, instill that confidence back and go from there.
When Tuchel got appointed, he identified that Chelsea struggled defensively in a 4 man back line. He switched it up to 5 and Chelsea have looked a lot better for it.
Now, I'm not saying Ole needs to change to a 5 at the back but when he said something got to give, we haven't seen anything of the sort from a tactical point of view. He dropped Pogba from the deeper midfield role and the same nonsense is happening. Therefore, we know it's nothing to do with personnel but more so the tactics and team set up. Time to change things up, Ole!
If Ole is there for Tottenham, he needs to stop the high press, its not working. Drop deep, stay organised, win the ball back and attack with pace. Do the basics that got him here.