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Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10605 on: November 01, 2020, 03:00:36 PM »
Deciding not to mark a giant with a dwarf would be a good start.
Pub football teams work this stuff out but our management team unable to.

Yep. Basic shit like that should never be an issue for a top league side.
Still fuming about it and still not sure how that happens.
Maybe we could spend a lot of money on coaches to focus on marking big players at set pieces.
Obviously we only had 8 days to prepare for this game.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10606 on: November 01, 2020, 03:13:13 PM »
Just how we can go from sticking 7 past Liverpool to conceding 7 against Leeds and Southampton is beyond comprehension ......I want Smith to be successful but he really needs to smarten up his  act ......how you can "outcoach"  Klopp and then fail so miserably in the next two home games is difficult to interpret - the points currently  on the board are looking massive right now

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10607 on: November 01, 2020, 03:21:13 PM »
Another car crash from the maestro. Absymal team shape, unforgivable after what Leeds did to us to set up the same way again. But Deano doubled down and we paid the price. His hero worshiping of Barkley for one has me seething.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10608 on: November 01, 2020, 03:23:20 PM »
Another car crash from the maestro. Absymal team shape, unforgivable after what Leeds did to us to set up the same way again. But Deano doubled down and we paid the price. His hero worshiping of Barkley for one has me seething.

I fear you’re getting a bit focussed on Barkley. He’s had a poor couple of games, but he’s also had an outstanding and a good game.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10609 on: November 01, 2020, 03:42:47 PM »
Just how we can go from sticking 7 past Liverpool to conceding 7 against Leeds and Southampton is beyond comprehension ......I want Smith to be successful but he really needs to smarten up his  act ......how you can "outcoach"  Klopp and then fail so miserably in the next two home games is difficult to interpret - the points currently  on the board are looking massive right now

Spurs went from scoring 6 at Man. United to drawing 3-3 with West Ham next game. Leicester went from scoring 5 at Man. City to losing to us and West Ham (3-0) at home.

It's that sort of season.

Looks like Everton have hit the wall same time as us. What's their excuse Clive (wink).

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10610 on: November 01, 2020, 03:46:54 PM »
Another car crash from the maestro. Absymal team shape, unforgivable after what Leeds did to us to set up the same way again. But Deano doubled down and we paid the price. His hero worshiping of Barkley for one has me seething.

I fear you’re getting a bit focussed on Barkley. He’s had a poor couple of games, but he’s also had an outstanding and a good game.

Thought he was anonymous against Leicester until the goal to be honest. For whatever reason Smith changed his role from a 10 to an 8 after then and we are paying the price. But that doesn't excuse his abysmal lack of effort without the ball in the last two games. He is nowhere near good enough to be getting away with that and certainly not in his new position.

It isn't as if Smith has shifted him to left back, he should be making a lot better fist of his new position anyway.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10611 on: November 01, 2020, 03:53:16 PM »
Dean must reflect on this and not take any comfort in the fact that we scored 3. Hasenhuttl basically ripped him in the first half and he had no answer. He is being worked out by good tactical managers and needs to step up.
And also Dean, McGinn must have a free role in midfield as he can't do what you are asking him to do consistently.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10612 on: November 01, 2020, 03:54:57 PM »
Smith out!

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10613 on: November 01, 2020, 03:59:21 PM »
The mark of a good manager is in large part how they adjust to adversity. Ralph Hasenhüttl has done absolutely superbly since they got destroyed by Leicester. Many managers wouldn’t have survived that much less come back so much stronger. This is Dean Smith’s challenge now. Today could have been a lot worse and at 4-0 early in the second it could have been horrific. But we’ve been spared it being really embarrassing.

But I don’t want to be too harsh just yet. Like Smith, Ancelotti, a really top manger has also lost two straight. It will be interesting to see who gets back to winning first.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10614 on: November 01, 2020, 04:00:43 PM »
Dean must reflect on this and not take any comfort in the fact that we scored 3. Hasenhuttl basically ripped him in the first half and he had no answer. He is being worked out by good tactical managers and needs to step up.
And also Dean, McGinn must have a free role in midfield as he can't do what you are asking him to do consistently.
agree with the McGinn role comment, the midfield is nort right, Sampton were walking through us in the first half, there were so many pockets of Space.

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« Reply #10615 on: November 01, 2020, 04:01:37 PM »
He needs to be able to set the midfield in different formations and styles.  Unfortunately apart from CH there is nobody decent on the bench.  We need to sign at least two midfielders in January and one of them need to be a real hard ass.   We also need another a striker and left and right back.  Only 5 more signings......

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« Reply #10616 on: November 01, 2020, 04:03:36 PM »
He needs to be able to set the midfield in different formations and styles.  Unfortunately apart from CH there is nobody decent on the bench.  We need to sign at least two midfielders in January and one of them need to be a real hard ass.   We also need another a striker and left and right back.  Only 5 more signings......
you really think we can just keep signing players. We have to get more out of the ones we have first.

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« Reply #10617 on: November 01, 2020, 04:06:14 PM »
He needs to be able to set the midfield in different formations and styles.  Unfortunately apart from CH there is nobody decent on the bench.  We need to sign at least two midfielders in January and one of them need to be a real hard ass.   We also need another a striker and left and right back.  Only 5 more signings......
you really think we can just keep signing players. We have to get more out of the ones we have first.

In midfield definitely.  We ain’t going to get more out of Lansbury or Marvellous.   If Watkins gets a knock we are screwed.   

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10618 on: November 01, 2020, 04:25:46 PM »
He needs to be able to set the midfield in different formations and styles.  Unfortunately apart from CH there is nobody decent on the bench.  We need to sign at least two midfielders in January and one of them need to be a real hard ass.   We also need another a striker and left and right back.  Only 5 more signings......

Hourihane got a goal and assist against Fulham and hadn't played a single minute since. That's despite McGinn and particularly Barkley being absolutely useless in the last two games.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10619 on: November 01, 2020, 04:27:37 PM »
I'm not a huge fan of Nakamba but wasn't he highly rated in Belgium?

We've seen from likes of Luiz, Konsa and Trez decent improvement in last 6 months after struggling to settle in so not sure things would become a disaster if we gave Nakamba the odd start up to January to give us a more bit of a defensive nature at base of midfield.

Luiz has done really well for us in the DM role last few months but I do think at times it restricts him a bit. It would be like Ward-Prowse playing DM for Southampton but they have Romeu for that so that allows him to push on more and get on the ball in final third.

 


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