Carlos corberan

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

After only 2 games I admit we have to give Ted a chance, but time is against him already to change the way we played for bielsa and get the players away from his system to a new one, can't see it happening, pray he keeps us up.

If you look on you tube there is a video of him doing a talk about his tactics and more general stuff around it.

I fear his tactics are a little simplistic and one dimensional for the PL. The aim is to get the ball forward asap into the opposition penalty area in the most direct way to the penalty spot. He plays narrow with little width. Which causes two obvious problems - it’s easy to defend against and when we lose it there will be loads of space out wide.

If we do go wide the other side of the pitch tucks in to compress the width leaving a gaping hole for the other side to exploit on the switch if they win the ball back.

Look at the ‘highlights’ v Villa and how much space they had when they maintained their width.

We at times looked like an u9 team where you could throw a blanket over the whole team so compact were we.

I have FA coaching badges and even at level 1 they teach you about space and compression and in kids football to try to avoid that.

I so want Jesse to be successful but not only does the squad not have depth and is missing it’s best player but the tactics make us easy to play against.

It is a fallacy that Bielsa only had a single Plan A he has many variations of Plan A for different specific games but for an actual game he would stick to that version of Plan A he had chosen for that game.