StriderHiryu

Carsley wouldn't be me first choice, but agree with what you've written here. I think in people's heads they think Carsley = Southgate, but he's his own man, and won silverware. He even had a very brief spell at Brentford as manager where he won manager of the month. https://learning.coachesvoice.com/cv/lee-carsley-tactics-and-style-of-play/ Whoever we get needs to understand that we need to build a team with PACE. The league has actually moved on a bit from heavy possession to being more transition based, as it's notable that the top 3 in the table this year are not the top 3 for possession. What is key is that to exploit the opponent when they are out of shape when you win the ball back. Ruud played a very slow and ponderous style, which is why we struggled to score. When we finally got a goal against Brighton, it came from winning the ball back and getting a shot off quickly!

Reid came on for Mavididi at 94 mins, and Evans came on right at the death for McAteer. That's right; I referenced two seperate events in one sentence! I think you might want to go to back to school and improve your comprehension of the English language.

Vardy could come on in the last 20-30 when the game is stretched and the opposition defenders have slowed down. Daka for all of his donkey touches made multiple chances and won turnovers for himself just by pressing and running at the backline with pace.

We had a threat on transition, something that has been missing throughout the season. Two fast wingers meant we could pose the opposition a problem. That's what the modern day Premier League is all about, exploiting the spaces the opposition has when they are out of position on a turnover. Both Mavididi and McAteer ran directly at their fullbacks today, and Bilal was finding them. Brighton could have been well out of sight, but it's a huge frustration we didn't play this way since game one of the season. Cooper was an utter coward not to start Mavididi and Fatawu at the same time, and Ruud clueless about getting the ball forwards quickly when winning the ball back. Had we played this way throughout the campaign I think we would still have gone down, but I doubt we'd be 14 points off 17th position!

I am bashing him for taking Mavididi off, not McAteer. Subbing Mavididi off for Reid was cowardly.

This game made me realise how much of the season was wasted by both Cooper and RVN. Playing Enzo's system made us a thousand times more competitive and whilst it does leave us open at times, it also makes us exciting to watch. If we had played like that every game and still gone down, no one would be that upset. For me some fairly obvious things that need to happen are: - JJ should be the left centre back - Ricardo should be the inverting player - Mavididi should start every game - McAteer and Daka make the system more effective than Vardy and A.N.other on the right hand side, even if they are technically very limited. The biggest difference in this game is that every time we won the ball back, we had a threat on the break, which hadn't been the case for the previous 12 hours. But Ruud taking of Mavididi at 94 minutes and only giving Evans 10 seconds was shocking.

It's only taken two managers and 32 games to realise the system we played all last season was the one we should have played this.

No one stops Leicester City from scoring for 13 hours. No one!

Man I feel stupid for not remembering about him. Would make perfect sense as Madrid are going to change their manager for sure at the end of the season and we've been linked with him before.

Thiago Motta (lol) Vincenzo Italiano (also lol) Domenico Tedesco? Maurizio Sarri Or my prediction, Russellini Martino?

Very good question. In my opinion he's got a bit of the Russel Martin about him in that he's got a specific phillosophy he wants to stick to and won't deviate away from it too much. He is prepared to change the formation, but all we've seen from Ruud is an extremely slow and pedestrian style when attacking. If we keep him next season, I suspect he will get found out, as I think teams will just park the bus and our stlye will be too slow to break teams down. Enzo's style was patient, but we injected pace when we exploited the man advantage due to Ricardo inverting and why a lot of our goals were actually pretty classy and explosive when we scored them. We don't see any change in the speed of our attack under Ruud. It's almost like he wants to play the tiki-taka style that domiannt 2008-2012 Spanish national team had, but with players that have nowhere near the same level of techinical ability.

With the players we have, the form we have been in, and the malaise in the squad, we were always going to lose. But the game plan for this match meant we never stood a chance. As you say after a poor performance where we got beat 3-0 at home, making zero changes to the tactics used or team selection says eveything you need to know. Ruud isn't even trying, and hasn't been for some time.

I'll be doing an analysis show tomorrow on Blue Tinted Glasses. In this game specifically: Tried to out pass one of the best passing teams in Europe. Wrong choice of players to play such a technical style, e.g. Ndidi trying to play out of trouble and support the attack, Daka as a 10. Lack of speed on transition with the way we setup as Daka was not the furthest man forward. Too open at the begining, so it was game over after 90 seconds. At half time, Ruud put on another CDM and that made us better defensively, but it made us even more blunt in attack. When Ricardo came on, he was lively, but Man City were coasting at that point. If you an the inferior team playing away at Man City, the blueprint is to have a compact block and defend deep, but important, have fast players and play the ball back to front quickly. The way we setup and played was naive and has been throughout Ruud's tenure here. Sadly it's pretty clear that he is a much worse manager than Cooper, as the results and performances prove.

Would actually have tracked back.

This, but even more it's a lack of attempting to try any type of different plan, the lack of making subs at half time, and general apathetic look from the touchline. He's dialing it in big time. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Ruud doesn't have that in him.