On technical level we weren't good enough but it's visible the team is overall tired and not in good form right now. We've had too many injuries this season and that's why we have this now. Starters are tired and the 'bench' players are out of form (Asamoah, Pereyra and lately Khedira too). The good thing is Lemina looks good so he'll give us a hand, he'll be very useful now, just needs to stay fit.
At the end of the day we won 2-0 and it's always good enough for me
We looked decent in the 4312 (much better than flat 442) but Pereyra is far from being good yet and Khedira is more of a DM than a B2B. You really need full of energy B2B to make the 4312 work. Hopefully we'll catch a breath now that we'll be playing once a week more often than not.
At the end of the day we won 2-0 and it's always good enough for me
We looked decent in the 4312 (much better than flat 442) but Pereyra is far from being good yet and Khedira is more of a DM than a B2B. You really need full of energy B2B to make the 4312 work. Hopefully we'll catch a breath now that we'll be playing once a week more often than not.
These seemingly never ending series of injuries are starting to take their toll now. As you said, because our starters had to play non-stop for a long time, they seem to be running out of gas and the injury prone bench players (Lemina, Pereyra, Asamoah) aren't all in the best form due to missing so much of the season.
There really is nothing much we can do but grit our teeth and just get on with it. But we really need to look into what we are doing to these players in terms of preparation for games, training methods etc and try to remedy this situation. We cannot have another season full of muscle injuries like this again.
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This shows how we played today.
