++ [ originally posted by denco ] ++
I see some are blaming luck, or off day, no its the powers that be who keep buying trash and persisting with players way past their best and playing players who are so rigid its hard for them to adapt to new positions,
I see some are blaming luck, or off day, no its the powers that be who keep buying trash and persisting with players way past their best and playing players who are so rigid its hard for them to adapt to new positions,
First off, I think our players are that bad, but you say they can't adapt to new positions. I would rather say that they can't adapt to new mindsets and modes. In every game we have impressed and won this year over a quality side we we have layed bakck, concentrated on not letting in goals and counter-attacked, the best example being the Milan game. With Tacch being so good at laying in front of the defenders picking up every ball, Nedveds speed and ability to attack fast and our aging defence who are great when they're able to "rest" very near their own goal, this tactic has worked great for us. It might not be very impressive sometimes, but it has it's moments.
In the recent Manyoo game however Lippi did not use the taqctic, or rather the team just didn't do it. I think we didn't cause we just couldn't do it, it would just be to weird, almost a bit embarassing. Against a Manyoo wich we outplayed at home, with Giggs and RVN on the bench and a manager who seemed like he didn't want to win we we're gonna sit back and counter attack? I think not. We chose to attack, and failed miserable. Maybe we thought we could do it, afterall we were impressive against Como, but we found out the hard way the difference between Serie A rubbish and one of Europe's finest. When we chose to attack many big problems suddenly disappeared. Who was going to be our DM distributor of the ball? Conte, Tudor? Who was going to help Nedved attack? How was our old-ass defence going to cope with Manyoo's speed?
We simply couldn't tackle all these problems, we threw in a couple of horrible mistakes, and we failed, we humiliated ourselves and we lost.
