The Doctor

ACL crisis in women's football desperately needs addressing

Mavididi got away with that, silly foul and obvious pen

He's had a decent early return for us this season though, which is what people want to see. Likely that was over performance and this is a return to the mean but still

Would like to see Dewsbury-Hall learn to use his right foot, would really speed our play up at times

Smashed a volley into someone's face with time to bring it down and put a cross 5 yard behind wilf

Think Nacho should have laid it off the moment he spun there, KDH would have had an easy chance

Tidy finish but Nacho... Got to step with the defence

You need to rotate throughout this spell. Wednesday was the first of 10 games in 33 days for christs sake

decent start, eights and striker pressing a bit rather than pointing at the ball like on Wednesday

He's an kid and we've got absurd fixture congestion, the midfielders will absolutely have to rotate. Expect Mavididi to be benched v Plymouth, Millwall or Birmingham

Looks like they've got their graphics back already

As in scoreboard, clock etc. the graphic overlays

He's still recovering from a back injury?

Right Nacho, time to show what you can do again.

Team isn't out yet?

makes my point though, plan B should be the strategy you go to when things aren't working and so should be one with a good %age return from it (last throw of the dice, get a couple of good quality chances). **** it at the big man has such an abysmal return unless the opposition isn't familiar with the concept of defending that it's basically pointless

They don't. Point 3 on this article covers exactly that: https://theathletic.com/4997349/2023/11/03/tactics-teams-dont-use-anymore/ Short corners are rising year on year, for the simple reason that corners are vanishingly unlikely to end in goals (around 3.5% see a goal from them)

Learn to read.

I'm explicitly saying it shouldn't be sustainable for 90 minutes dude

Barely works for 10 minutes. It is obsolete now, like 4-4-2 as a formation. As I said, your plan B should be a very effective one but one that can't be sustained for 90 minutes (if it's effective and sustainable, why is it not plan A?). Smash it at the tall bloke is not effective, it is a tactic consigned to the 90s alongside beanie babies and flared jeans

Plan B should be effective (or why is it a plan) but not sustainable for 90 minutes (or why would it not be plan A). Big man up top and hoof it is an archaic style which is not particularly effective and has long since been abandoned by the vast majority of managers

You get the idea of currently having 4 registered strikers and 2 being unavailable in Jan right? Current playtime for two going isn't relevant, what is relevant is whether the two staying are match fit

Particularly since we need him up to speed within the next month to cover Iheanacho and Daka being at AFCON and leaving just Vardy as a striker with any game time this season

Praet - assist for equaliser v Cov. Casadei - goal v Cardiff. Praet - 1 goal involvement in 112 minutes, Casadei - 1 goal involvement in 598 minutes. Has Casadei really delivered more, or the same amount from 5x the game time

He's good. Wingers are always frustrating to watch because it's a position that really highlights the 1v1 duels and no player is successful with every take on. The problem is more that, much as I'm liking the Wilf renaissance, none of our midfielders are really right for the number 8 role in this system. The striker drops deep and I know that frustrates everyone but that's a sensible and deliberate ploy (although I think they do sometimes come too deep), to draw out the CBs and allow the 8s to run in behind. However, very rarely do you see these runs being made and giving the wingers runs to find. Too often it's actually the wingers cutting in off the wings instead (watch how often Mavididi and Fatawu make those inside runs off the ball when we have it in the winks position), meaning that they're often forced after winning the 1v1 to turn back to the supporting wide defender.