Quote Originally Posted by Saxo1man41 View Post
You can put 11 christiano ronaldos out and instruct them to play cautiously. That's exactly what mowbray does. It was so obvious V gills he'd settled for a point after taking Dack and Graham off.
Rubbish again. He didn't bring on defenders!
Dack had a poor game, and Graham is consistently managed to protect him.
We weren't penetrating, so Mowbray tried two players who have excellent passing-skills - Payne and Whittingham. In other words, he was trying something different to change the pattern. It didn't work. Not everything a manager attempts DOES work.
The Ronaldo comment is just ridiculous. Are players robots? Do you imagine for a moment that they are running around thinking, "Oh, I shouldn't shoot here because the manager told me to be cautious."?
Players react to what's in front of them in the moment. They aren't pushed about by subbuteo flicks from the manager.