EnglishOxide Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 He said: "I remember Tottenham in 2000 when I was here (with Chelsea) and every year they have achieved the Europa League. Now they are building a team to win the league and to achieve the Champions League. Our journey starts today. "We changed a lot of players and if we fight very well against this team I am very pleased with my players. Tottenham deserved to win. "The first half we didn't play well maybe when I changed the shape they didn't understand the mechanism. In 4-4-2 we are very good. In 4-3-3 we need to improve. "I wanted to maintain in the first half and push in the second half. That was not possible because they scored in the first half, but I am very pleased because my players have fantastic heart. "We played with heart tonight. In my opinion the performance was fantastic. We fight face to face with Tottenham. We have fought very well in four matches. Our journey starts tonight because we play at a same level against a big team. This is a good line to follow." Thoughts?
lgfualol Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Wouldn't be good for morale if he said they were shit
Guest MattP Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Complete and utter nonsense, kidding nobody.
davieG Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 The effort was ok but the approach to the game was negative. In a game that's a one off and could go to extra time I see little point in spending half of it in containment mode whatever happens you've still got to score goals so why deliberately limit yourself by 45 minutes whilst giving the opposition the full 90.
Father Ted Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 We were utter garbo. 4-3-3? I never seen a 4-3-3, I just seen a 4-6-0 with Ulloa occasionally acting as a striker. Negative garbo rubbish. We don't play to score anymore, we play not to concede.
Kitchandro Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 You can look at it one of two ways - either he's saying that to take the pressure of his players and encourage them or he believes we're punching well above our weight this season and performances like last night are considered fantastic. I'd like to think it's the former but the latter would explain why we've reverted to negative football. Certainly a lot of his comments - 'maintain in the first half', for example, have suggested to me that it's a conscious effort to sit back and keep goals out. Not comments that fill me with confidence, if I'm honest.And I disagree that there was 'heart' in our performance. Some individuals had it, but several didn't and neither did he as the manager.
Guest Col city fan Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Rubbish I'm afraid. I'd rather hear honesty than crap. Along the lines of 'we weren't at our best but it was good to see the younger players come through well'...or summat. We had hardly any quality last night.
foxfanazer Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Oh dear. Hope he doesn't truly believe that!
TheUltimateWinner Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Ranieri: I'm happy with what I saw out there, there was some positives for sure. Team: Seems confused
chapero82 Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 I think this has been misquoted, he does mention we did fantastically well over the 4 games but not this one, which to be fair he is right!
mikey54 Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 He also said there would be no more transfer business a couple of weeks ago
Larry_LCFC Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 It frustrates me when managers come out this guff. It was poor, so say it was poor. I would feel a lot happier if the manager was honest and recognised how bobbins we were because then maybe we will make the required changes. There is a chance he is somehow genuinely happy with that last night, but how are we to know?
Babylon Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 You take that with a pinch of salt. He clearly says we didn't play very well in the first half, that doesn't equal fantastic performance does it. Neither does saying they deserved to win. On the OS he talks about our progress being fantastic, with us competing with the likes of Spurs much further ahead in their development. Rather than the performance last night. “I think we’ve made a very fantastic step, because in four matches against Tottenham, we’ve won one, lost one and drawn two. If you imagine it’s a minimum of 10 years that Tottenham are building their team to reach the Europa League and Champions League zone." When someone has pigeon English to the extent he has, there is absolutely no point in picking holes in what they say. Half of almost all his interviews is gibberish where either he doesn't get the question, or the reporter doesn't understand the answer fully.
Tuna Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 This is no different from what LVG/Wenger comes out with.
Thracian Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Not reading too much into any of this. It's over. We put out a reserves team and lost a game we should have won the week before. It was an entirely positive experience for Chilwell and Gray so the exercise wasn't wasted and the focus now passes to what matters this season which is our Premiership season and rediscovering the form that made us so dangerous.
Phube Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 He also stated we're not playing 4-3-3 how he wants us to play it. But is that defensively or attacking? He didn't say?
inckley fox Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 I understand what he's saying, of course. He makes some good points. I'm just not sure it's a good idea to praise performances which aren't good enough, it's a psychological trick but one which seems to largely apply to football and little else, in terms of the amount of substandard stuff which managers claim to be acceptable. Most professionals are clearly told when they're not doing their jobs, and I fail to see why a psychological trick like that would be specifically effective in football, but not so much in other walks of life. It's not like they're school kids, or clumsy young waiters who keep dropping all the stuff but are eager to learn the job. Last year I felt as if we might have awoken from our slumber a bit quicker had Pearson occasionally tried to break to cycle by opting for criticism over praise (as he did quite frequently at a lower level... but as a side improves, and the requirements on them increase, the bar has to be raised); we wondered whether he said one thing in public and another behind closed doors, but from what players said that didn't appear to be the case. And several issues went unchecked for a long time - Konchesky on the left, De Laet on the right and so on. But, in truth, he did meet our objectives, and comfortably, in the end. And, of course, he was constantly altering line-ups and systems, so he clearly did recognise the need to find a new formula. And just because Pearson's public analysis tended to reflect what he said to the players, doesn't mean that it's the same with Ranieri. I suppose the test will be whether Albrighton continues to look jaded and reluctant to get in behind the full back, Mahrez continues to be trapped into tight spaces on the right with little sign of something new being tried and Ulloa continues to be our go-to back-up striker. We could end up signing a new forward today (we need to with Kramaric gone, Ulloa out of form and 4-4-2 clearly our strongest formation) and it would show, beyond question, that he was addressing our shortcomings.
inckley fox Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Not reading too much into any of this. It's over. We put out a reserves team and lost a game we should have won the week before. It was an entirely positive experience for Chilwell and Gray so the exercise wasn't wasted and the focus now passes to what matters this season which is our Premiership season and rediscovering the form that made us so dangerous. I agree with this. He'll have learnt a lot about Inler / King / Wasilewski / Benalouane too, not all of which will be positive. Shame James, Schlupp and De Laet couldn't get a game. I think that this kind of comment from a manager just makes people worry that he 'doesn't see that something isn't working'. Time will tell on that one.
STUHILL Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 I think he is naturally positive and I think he full well knows we were turd, but it was the reserve team and no point slagging them off after they were beating by a much better team. It wasn't for lack of effort anyway, just lack of quality. He needs to keep these reserve players positive as he may need some of them in the last 16 games. Do I think these comments means he somehow saw a completely different performance than the rest of us? Not at all. We won't see that first half system again, that's for sure. Tried and failed. 16 games to go. COME ON BOYS!!
Finnegan Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Yeah because he was really going to rotate the squad for the sakes of morale and then go "lol that's why I don't play those losers."
foxfanazer Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Yeah because he was really going to rotate the squad for the sakes of morale and then go "lol that's why I don't play those losers."Not the only alternative though is it
HoustonFox Posted 21 January 2016 Posted 21 January 2016 Not reading too much into any of this. It's over. We put out a reserves team and lost a game we should have won the week before. It was an entirely positive experience for Chilwell and Gray so the exercise wasn't wasted and the focus now passes to what matters this season which is our Premiership season and rediscovering the form that made us so dangerous. Well said.
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