Quote from: itbrvilla on February 03, 2021, 11:41:01 PM2 wins in 7. He needs to change it up a little. We look tired and stale at times as well as too many sloppy errors (still)Only really one poor performance in that time though. There is definitely an argument for one or two possible changes, but we aren’t in a position where we need to be too concerned yet.
2 wins in 7. He needs to change it up a little. We look tired and stale at times as well as too many sloppy errors (still)
Quote from: Luke8 on February 03, 2021, 11:46:36 PMQuote from: itbrvilla on February 03, 2021, 11:41:01 PM2 wins in 7. He needs to change it up a little. We look tired and stale at times as well as too many sloppy errors (still)Only really one poor performance in that time though. There is definitely an argument for one or two possible changes, but we aren’t in a position where we need to be too concerned yet. I'm not sure he trusts his squad enough to rotate things.
Quote from: OzVilla on February 04, 2021, 02:17:26 AMQuote from: Luke8 on February 03, 2021, 11:46:36 PMQuote from: itbrvilla on February 03, 2021, 11:41:01 PM2 wins in 7. He needs to change it up a little. We look tired and stale at times as well as too many sloppy errors (still)Only really one poor performance in that time though. There is definitely an argument for one or two possible changes, but we aren’t in a position where we need to be too concerned yet. I'm not sure he trusts his squad enough to rotate things.Quite possibly. And, obviously, Dean see them more than us and is best placed to make that judgement. He is clearly doing what he thinks is the best thing to win games and, to be fair to him, he hasn’t got much wrong this season. We will never know how much difference it would have made. You could make the argument either way - maybe we would have been a bit fresher etc. or maybe it would have meant more disjointed/less quality performances. What is clear, to me at least, is that I would trust Dean, and the rest of the club, to get that right eventually. We have seen a big jump in quality/performance/results from what you would call our first XI through the improvements they have made. I’d imagine Sanson is the first part of that next step in improving the overall quality of the whole squad.
- we need to be better at responding to adversity. When we go behind we lose and we’ve got to stronger at competing when that happens.
Quote from: PaulWinch again on February 04, 2021, 07:44:14 AM- we need to be better at responding to adversity. When we go behind we lose and we’ve got to stronger at competing when that happens. I’m not dismissing this, there is clearly a bit of an issue here, but I’m not sure it’s as bad as it seems (or the stat about points from losing positions would suggest)We haven’t got many positive end results from those games, but it’s not like we have conceded and given up/capitulated in all our defeats. We equalised against Manchester United, Brighton, West Ham and our performances could have quite easily have led to us winning some of those games on another day. Like in most areas, we have made significant progress, it’s now about tweaking a few issues/taking that next step to becoming a really good team.
I agree with Paul, when we lose, we tend to lose badly. We've conceded 3+ goals in 5 out of 8 defeats as I said before, and in those games we haven't been playing the top clubs. Also worryingly, in the last two games we've gone back to conceding 20 shots a game. We got away with it, just, against Southampton but the chickens came home to roost last night.
We have one of the youngest sides in the league, with that you're going to have inconsistency. Some naivety at times and yes some blind panic when things don't go our way.It's partly why Arsenal are having such an up and down season, and why Man United struggled for periods last year under Solksjaer straight after unbeaten runs.I thought Targett should have had a shot last night, instead he tried a pass which got cut out and because we had so many forward we got caught out. That's a young side pushing too hard to get back into the game, and making a mistake. I can live with that, because I'm so sure there's more to come from all of them.Smith is going to make mistakes too, so getting out thought by a man who has been managing at this level for twenty years doesn't worry me either.