Richmondfox

Either he is over thinking it or is just thick as shit and doesn’t know what to do. So many times he will play himself back into danger to try and beat the players again, while ignoring VK who had ran into space ahead. I don’t think he likes VK as in the prem he would never pass to him when he got into space. Lloyd Dyer and Fuchs.

Ayew busts a gut to take the ball forward just so he can send it back further than it came.

Everything is a mess and shambles with Soumare. Mavadidi is either greedy and does nothing or fluffs the easy chance. Fatawu is boring and greedy now. Ricardo is boring and needs to step up and lead as a captain.

Brain dead Daka, he has time to turn with the ball but blasts it wide to the wing.

Everything Soumare does is lazy. The guy has zero awareness or urgency.

Or just smashes it

Mavadidi showing why he’s so frustrating to watch. Always ignores VK when he’s open so he can stand still and do his step overs and pass back.

I can’t stand watching Soumare. He doesn’t look when he blasts the ball around. Just then he tries to tackle a player from behind then ran away from him. Brain dead.

Jakob is so slow to do anything out the back, needs to start pointing and telling people to move or just boot it out.

Ricardo needs to start playing like the player he used to be. As a captain he needs to step up as he is just as boring now as the others. Stands still watching Fatawu slow everything down.

He looked at the player and jogged away in midfield, watches the pass and jogs into the box. Brain dead.

Same with Mav. He loves to stand still and kill the momentum so he can skin a player.

And then slow down to a stand still when they need to cross it.

I forgot that Mavadidi would always ignore VK when overlaps.

The Okoli slow, short pass to Soumare wjo looks to stand behind players and not move.

Marti doesn’t know what a 1-2 and overlap is so positions are still to come in his training manuals

And replacing him with Steve Wonder.

Need to be trying Nelson. Okoli can’t pass to the side let alone into midfield. His brain stutters then reboots and he taps it to a marked player.

Hopefully the new analyst has told Marti the players are allowed to run and pass in the space on the wing between the winger on the half way line and the corner flag.

Our wingers will be standing unmarked ready to bolt but they will always ignore but are happy to blast the ball in to Ayew to send backwards. Thomas giving the ball away for the pen by ignoring unmarked Monga in front and default stopping to turn backwards for the sake of it. At this point the poor play is coming from the managers tactics. Surely skilled players like Ricardo know to run beyond the winger or forward know to run into space.

With Ayew dropping into the area JJ and Monga play, stinking out the play and if he decides to pass and break is on, leaving no target up top.

Get him gone as soon as. He is making Cooper look like a tactical genius. He won’t change his style of play other wise he would’ve done it by now. He averaged a goal a game at QPR. Jakub seems scared to launch the ball quickly for someone to run onto but is confident at booting it to the opposition when they piss around the back. JV is too slow out the back and everyone slots into the simple pass but inviting the press on to others. 20 passes later Fatawu and Monga get the ball on the half way line and are expected to skin everyone while they all stand back and admire the step overs. When they pass quickly they can actually attack. He will play the chuckle brothers at the back, Stevie Wonder in midfield and let us witness the famous Ayew hold up never release play. While he hasn’t got great choices, you would think he should be able to coach or drill something positive into them, not this dross.

What’s frustrating is not just that he is playing to the best of his limited ability, but more often than not he actively avoids bringing others into the game when the chance is there. Thick and limited players is the down fall on the pitch. They don’t even use the basics to get the ball quickly to the players with the ability. Fatawu has been ruined, Monga is now playing like Mavadidi because he gets zero support and he will play JJ out of position with Soumare behind and Ayew infront. Yuck.

But we need him for his famous hold up play, where he runs to the wing and refuses to pass to anyone.

He hasn’t got to that page in his book yet. Maybe the new analyst can explain the big green sections on the heat map in the opposition box and high on the wings.