Haven’t heard any “ten Hag out” voices yet, thankfully, but when do people start blaming him?
Yeah, injuries are bad, but that happens to all clubs. Are they trying too hard and forgetting the fundamentals, especially at defending? Lack of effort?
Why not put in the young guys? They’ll definitely give the required effort to impress.
I don’t know, I’m just pissed at my team.
it doesn’t work mainly due to Casemiro, he keeps giving away the ball with his stupid passes in positions where you can’t really afford to give away the ball then it looks like we are being carved apart when in reality it’s just what happens when you make technical errora you shouldn’t be making.
and then he failed to track his man multiple times who then scored from a cutback pass.
against Brighton he was finally taken off as punishment Bruno played as 6 and did the same thing, didn’t track Pedro and he scored from a cut back.
these are errors that are simply on the players, no matter the tactics if you keep fucking up the basics.
Ole said the same thing, people get too int9 the tactics side of things but if you keep losing duels, put in less effort than the opposition then tactics doesn’t matter, there is no tactics that can make that work.
Yes I agree but Erik Ten Hag should be aware of his weaknesses and set up to compensate don’t you think? He’s still playing him as though he’s prime Casemiro.
yeah I said elsewhere that I guess the main thing to criticize him for is playing Casemiro, though to be fair for most games Amrabat wasn’t here to cover then he used him at LB, and other options are like, Mctominay who looked just as bad or worse than Casemiro.
I guess I would have played Lindelof RB and Maguire-Varane and Amrabat instead of case but we are really stretching where the weakness will be in the team.
simply too many injuries
I think Dalot can play LB so with Lindelof at RB that would’ve freed Amrabat to push back into midfield, but Ten Hag seems hesitant to push Lindelof to the flanks. I guess he was rightly worried about Zaha.
yeah it’s not like Lindelof is much better as a LB/RB so it’s basically pick your poison and tbf again, Casemiro does score goals unlike a lot of other players.
Was thinking a Bruno/Case/Amrabat or Mount/Case/Amrabat midfield would stop us getting carved like swiss cheese and free up Casemiro’s defensive responsibilities a bit as like you said he’s decent at scoring goals. But EtH seems deadset on having two creative midfielders, both of whom can’t defend, which I don’t think always works or is necessary. I think trying to shoehorn Mount and Bruno in the middle is causing more imbalance than our defensive woes.
That’s why Hannibal has started getting time, because he’s an attacking midfielder who is also a workhorse. I think when you play with two creators, at least one needs to be covering every blade of grass.
mount defends, he is a very good presser.