10 game review

[Elite_Pie]

Good summary. I think Nigel is wrong. We played 4-2-3-1 last night. It wasn't the problem at all and R and R fit very nicely into it...and both did well...
To add to your list on why we failed, I'll say 3 or 4 very poor individual performances we're sprinkled in there

I think he's right about planning for a formation and abandoning it, though. This is an almighty f*** up. Some breakdown between club executives, recruitment and coaching team that left us without key players for the chosen system. If the squad's going to be this small, we didn't need both of Nemane and Mitchell, another holding midfielder and a proper RWB were higher priorities

Obviously formations and tactics are very important, but so is guts, passion and desire. We only seem bothered with the first part, but it’s not working because our opponents also focus heavily on the second part.

[jacobncfc]

Obviously formations and tactics are very important, but so is guts, passion and desire. We only seem bothered with the first part, but it’s not working because our opponents also focus heavily on the second part.

I think it can be too easy sometimes to put everything down to guts, passion and desire. If anything last night I would say we got too interested in getting involved in a scrap following their red card, when we just needed to use our brains to win the game.