Of course. Come the 2018 WC we'll repeat the bet.
Hopefully by then Belgium will have a great coach. Btw Wilmots should carry a lot of the blame, but so should the players. You can't give Hazard the ball and then decide to let him to do everything. Offensively our movement off the ball was awful. Part of that is coaching, but a big part is also the willingness to try and shake things up.
As for Wilmots.. Well, I think any coach should do some form of tactical training. Doing none whatsoever seems like suicide. If guys like Nainggolan (with an Italian background) and Courtois (coached by Simeone and Mourinho) complain during the tournament, you should take their complaints into consideration.
Also, one final thing, I understand that the original idea was to bench KDB v Ireland. Despite us winning that game, I can't help but feel that we would have done better with him on the bench. Maybe he was tired, maybe he wasn't feeling well, I don't know. But he wasn't his usual self and I think Wilmots should have protected him by benching him (even if that meant subjecting himself to a lot of criticism).
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I read an interesting article today, analysing the past two years.
After WC2014 it was widely believed to succeed Wilmots needed good tacticians in his staff that arent yes nodders, but express their opinion.
However, there has been a large movement of staff evensince. He only wants yes nodders, and anyone who opposes his apparently big ego, can sod off.
There was one improvement i saw, and then he botched it.
We dont have a central playmaker. So the wingers come inside and try to pull some stuff without a system to fall back on. Which is lovely to defend against. (we still havent beaten a top10 team).
Then we did what happened at City. We played De Bruyne centrally. Which was doing pretty good. Example the start vs Wales. With De Bruyne beeing the reference point, ball retention and distribution, the wingers can now focus on moving into space and make combinations.
Suddenly we started to play rather good vs wales.
Then he botched it. We had a shitty defence. FIne, so did Bayern for a while this season, but they press the opponent away from their goal, relieving the stress of their defenders. He also made the fuckup of playing a young fullback in the center, who doesnt have the positional awareness which comes with age (should have played ciman if he planned on sitting back).
if he kept that high pressing we played up, all we'd have to worry was counters. But that would be alrigth, because the advantage of young fullbacks playing centreback, is their great speed and duelling at pace, which is good on counters.
We didnt, we sat back. And again, we had absolutely no movement of players closing passing lanes (why the shit is radja so lazy for the NT ? And how bad is witsel lol). Conte would have raped them 71 new assholes if they were lazy like that.
We needed to press forward again. because that worked well.
Nope. LOLmots decided to take off a winger, put on fellaini who cannot distribute balls at all, and moved de bruyne wide. Which offcourse was not going to work. Also Wales is rather good at heading so not sure what the idea with Fellaini was.
He couldnt have showed better how much of an idiot he really is.
Thing is. If we fire wilmots, we pay 1mil. If he goes he'll pay 1 mil. Our incompetent fat FA has a 3.5 mil deficit cause they are incompetent retards, so that 1mil is quite a big issue.
If we manage this. Who is the new coach ?
Van Gaal is mentionned. Is he past it ? He failed in EPL and we only got EPL intelligence players.