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PunkCapitalist wrote:

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Hakara wrote:Think the only game I've enjoyed more this season was the Tottenham game, but that's mostly cause I was watching that in a bar with a bunch of tottenham fans. This was more composed defensively.

Incidentally also a match during which Thiago was benched.

Thiago's a great player, but we seem to play faster and more direct football without him.

It doesn't need to be that way though. Thiago had spells (I believe under Ancelotti) in which he played the deep lying playmaker in the Xabi/Pirlo style very well. That's what I want to see from Thiago, and less horizontal passing.

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Thiago was a 10 under Ancelotti. Under Pep he was used as a DLP at the beginning but only really played there under Kovac, no?

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PunkCapitalist wrote:

MUTU wrote:[quote="Hakara"]Think the only game I've enjoyed more this season was the Tottenham game, but that's mostly cause I was watching that in a bar with a bunch of tottenham fans. This was more composed defensively.

Incidentally also a match during which Thiago was benched.

Thiago's a great player, but we seem to play faster and more direct football without him.

It doesn't need to be that way though. Thiago had spells (I believe under Ancelotti) in which he played the deep lying playmaker in the Xabi/Pirlo style very well. That's what I want to see from Thiago, and less horizontal passing.

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Thiago was a 10 under Ancelotti. Under Pep he was used as a DLP at the beginning but only really played there under Kovac, no?[/quote]My memory fails as to when was it that I observed this, but I think it was under Ancelotti. Not sure though. Maybe it was in Pep's last season, not sure.

Regardless of that, I think Thiago can be that player.

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PunkCapitalist wrote:Guys... Changing coaches is known to produce a big short term boost in performance. Let's not blow this two results put of proportion.

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We didnt changed the coach, Flick was working with these players all along.

It was Kovac that they were against. Flick only continued what he did, only now without Kovac's "plans". Both Niko's and Robert's plans.

PunkCapitalist wrote:Guys... Changing coaches is known to produce a big short term boost in performance. Let's not blow this two results put of proportion.

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If I hear a single person jinx our situation by appropriating a certain phrase recently used at Man U I’m gonna lose my sh*t lol.

zozon wrote:

PunkCapitalist wrote:Guys... Changing coaches is known to produce a big short term boost in performance. Let's not blow this two results put of proportion.

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We didnt changed the coach, Flick was working with these players all along.

It was Kovac that they were against. Flick only continued what he did, only now without Kovac's "plans". Both Niko's and Robert's plans.

We did change coach. The positive effect registered when changing coaches is very likely not associated with a change in game plan, but rather mood, which is my point.

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sherpthederp wrote:

PunkCapitalist wrote:Guys... Changing coaches is known to produce a big short term boost in performance. Let's not blow this two results put of proportion.

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If I hear a single person jinx our situation by appropriating a certain phrase recently used at Man U I’m gonna lose my sh*t lol.

Flick's at the...jk

PunkCapitalist wrote:We need a proper coach who implements proper tactics and can communicate their role to each player. That's what we have been missing since Pep left. Ancelotti was too hands off, Kovac was incompetent. Consequently players kept going by decaying inertia in terms of tactics and their roles.

You mean to win the BL by March but get thrashed when we face decent opposition in Europe?

Jorge wrote:

PunkCapitalist wrote:We need a proper coach who implements proper tactics and can communicate their role to each player. That's what we have been missing since Pep left. Ancelotti was too hands off, Kovac was incompetent. Consequently players kept going by decaying inertia in terms of tactics and their roles.

You mean to win the BL by March but get thrashed when we face decent opposition in Europe?

I know you dislike Pep, but you can't deny that he had a game plan, and tactics, and players understood what they had to do. He may have failed in the CL, even got trashed, but the team was not drifting ("a la deriva") like under Carlo and Kovac.

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PunkCapitalist wrote:

Jorge wrote:

PunkCapitalist wrote:We need a proper coach who implements proper tactics and can communicate their role to each player. That's what we have been missing since Pep left. Ancelotti was too hands off, Kovac was incompetent. Consequently players kept going by decaying inertia in terms of tactics and their roles.

You mean to win the BL by March but get thrashed when we face decent opposition in Europe?

I know you dislike Pep, but you can't deny that he had a game plan, and tactics, and players understood what they had to do. He may have failed in the CL, even got trashed, but the team was not drifting ("a la deriva") like under Carlo and Kovac.

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Under Carlo we were OK in the champs league. I bet you all remember how we got eliminated.

Pep in the Champions league. I only give it to him in his last season. In the previous two he was the one responsible for our debacles

Oh yes, the difference is Pep was shit in away games... Carlo was shit in all games...

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Davies 2

MUTU wrote:And Alaba 1.5...

Im starting to lose respect for Kicker ratings.

Yh, both should be 1.