I reckon, from detailed observations, we must improve at football.
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It’s interesting to see it laid out like that. I must say I generally don’t look at stats as I can’t be bothered. I just watch (almost) every game and form opinions based on that. Seeing it laid bare though is quite stark.
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Very interesting, thank you. We all know we were good last season, and bad so far this season, and seeing it broken down like that is quite damning.
The DOF should be asking Slot what the strategy is going to be to improve in all those areas. We have a squad that - if it ever gets fit and firing - should be comfortably top four, and with one or two moves (central defence, Salah replacement) should be poised to fight hard for the league for the duration.
Right now we are not getting anything like the performance level we should see on that pitch.
A win today against Sunderland and let’s try to keep going to get it back.
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The club should be asking what the fuck the stats staff are doing. How that’s being communicated to Slot or not. Then what the fuck is Slot doing with that information.
It’s a quandary to me how we have dropped so badly since, what, February.
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Diaz did often play a significant role in our set up when defending set pieces, so you can see how exchanging him for Wirtz would be something we’d have to accommodate by shifting around some other responsibilities. You could see how that would have some negative impact, but there isnt much else that has changed in terms of personnel that would explain that level of drop off.
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Thought this was a very good tactical overview of our victory against West Ham.
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Did Chiesa save Arnes job for now?
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Just get him gone.
Yup and Wirtz’s deflected shot saved him for now…He’s still not out of the woods.
West Ham looks increasingly like they are just shit…
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Well… It’s our first draw of the season, but it’s not good enough. But we know this already.
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I am a bit concerned that he doesn’t seem to know how to use a lot of the players. I feel like many of them don’t have clearly defined instructions or roles.
For a manager who was hailed as a tactical genius when we hired him it’s hard to see what the plan is right now. Just seems like he’s going off vibes.
Most concerning for me, building on that point, is that he appears to just be clinging on to whatever happens to work. Beat Madrid, nice we’ll just do that again. Start getting twatted, damn randomly change pieces until something works. Beat West Ham? Nice we’ll just do that again.
I don’t mind not being at the top of the league but I do need to see a plan being worked towards. Don’t see it right now.
Oh and his substitutions are garbage. Never seem to have a tactical purpose its just throwing people on and hoping something happens.
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22 games into the season and we are still no clearer to seeing a structure that works.
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There’s plenty to criticize, but where do we even begin? It’s all been said before; I’m not convinced we’re on the right track.
But I will continue to try to notice the small positive things. But that probably won’t be enough.
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Yeah, I said it in the match thread but the entire season has had elements of Solskaer’s end at Utd.
- Try to evolve the side and fail
- Do so pretty miserably over a period of weeks
- Periodically salvage points by throwing on as many attacking players as you have who play in a chaotic mess of way but are good enough to steal points
- Repeat the following week, with plan A looking just as off.
Sunderland are better than us acting like anything other than a win is a travesty, especially as this was perfect circumstances for them. But the performance was a big disappointment after what seemed like emergence of some coherence on the weekend
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The last two months people posting thousands of words about tactics, formations, personnel, shape etc.
All means shit if the head coach is not able to get the minimum of motivation out of his players.
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Thin ice, very thin. I want Arne to turn it round, I really do. I just can’t see it.
Some have already written him off, while others want to give him another chance. We have to wait and see what the club decides. But for me, it makes absolutely no sense to postpone the inevitable if, unfortunately, there simply aren’t enough improvements. Time is simply wasted; I’m quite pragmatic about that. I think the team needs a fresh impetus.
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Not sure what there is out there to be honest that’s the problem. Are we just getting another wet behind the ears manager in if we sack. It will depend what their views on the Champions League qualification is.
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What is saving Slot’s job is how wank this league is.We are only 2 points off 4th place.As long as we are close to the CL spots they are not sacking him imo.
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Yes agreed. I said before the weekend, we need to win, win and win again starting NOW!!! We looked shit today and should have lost.
That said, we are 2 points off 4th. How is that even fucking possible??!! 
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