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Post by malisastokie on Sept 15, 2024 22:04:44 GMT
In the course of a season a side will have games like the one at Oxford where you are second best best at everything, quality touches , attitude, and either the game plan was wrong or players couldn’t execute the plan.
I might be imaging things but just about every season we on into the international break with some semblance of form and for whatever reason we come out of the break playing like park footballers who have never met one another before.
Shuey eluded to the fact he picked a side who had predominantly been together during the break and had not had to many minutes in international
Prior to the game he commented about a 3 game week and how he would need to balance the squads work load.
I understand sports science but I think the next game you play is the game you worry about , get the 3 points move on and worry Tuesday game on Saturday night.
We avoided relegation last year by playing ostensibly our best 11 each game, playing simple football and not introducing complexity into the game plan.
If a side wins surely those who played get the starting shirts for the next game and it’s there’s to lose and you don’t introduce a new style when half the side has been away for 2 weeks.
I think we gift opposition sides 3points at times by paying to much respect to the other sides ability and Molly coddling players.
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Post by professorplump on Sept 16, 2024 0:45:02 GMT
What the OP has said is pretty much how football used to be when I first started watching in the 1970's. I think Liverpool won the title one year using only 16 players.
However times have changed and it is very much a squad game now. It would be a brave and possibly foolhardy manager to ignore advice given to him by the sports science people and I would rather a player miss the occasional game, than be out injured for three months.
I understand both Koumas and Moran picked up knocks during international duty so I'm not surprised they didn't start on Saturday. We still should have had enough quality to get a result. We just played way below the level required.
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