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What have you learnt about City now that this season is at an end?
What lessons does Farke appear to have learnt from this season?
What lessons does Farke appear to have learnt from this season?
What have you learnt about City now that this season is at an end?
What lessons does Farke appear to have learnt from this season?
I would like to see a defensive coach to bring on the defensive unit. I believe we can coach them to improve as a group and cut out silly mistakes.
I think that one thing would exponentially benefit the club because the attacking players wouldn't be busting a gut just for a silly goal or two to be conceded every game.
That's a bit bleak Morty, I don't wholly agree.I think that it is no longer feasible for a club with our structure to survive in the Premiership. Every time we come up the financial disparity has got bigger with every single year. I'm afraid that the dream of establishing ourselves while self funding, is slowly fading away.
Lewis didn't cover himself in glory marking Dawson. For the goal, Lewis turned his back on Dawson and was bending over making himself even smaller. Yes Tettey could have done better too as could a man on the post and possibly Krul punching the ball away before it reached the back post area, but most of the damage was done with Lewis being ineffectual against Dawson.When I got into work today I said to my mate that Lewis was picking up Van Dyke at Liverpool in the first game of the season, and last night the same thing happened. That’s disappointing to see, and with the fact that we’ve struggled against set pieces all season I don’t know why personnel haven’t been put into different zones to try and help.
I like the way we play but we haven’t quite got the quality at the top level. I felt Pukki was a little better last night as when Vrancic has the ball he looks to pass forward more than some of the others.
Let me expand further in a new post window, this may be long ( I was busy at work but have a bit more time now to answer a bit better)That's a bit bleak Morty, I don't wholly agree.
My hunch is that we are trying to play a style which is a few years out of date.
Football evolves, Man City tried to play like Brazil but then comes along different tactics to deal with it, Jurgen pressing for instance.
We beat them by blocking up the midfield and pushing them out wide where they are less effective.
The slow patient passing game we have just plays into the hands of the professional efficient Premier League teams who press up, force mistakes, score at will and then sit back waiting for us to lose the ball again.
We need to be street wise, choosing when to play like Brazil, when to do a Burnley and then when to counterattack at speed like Leicester with Vardy.
Unfortunately, we all could see it early on but for whatever reason, Farke wasn't changing things, his response was work harder at what we're doing, when we should have adapted what we were doing depending on the opposition.
On two occasions Farke did change our style drastically and got positive results each time, against Man C and Everton away.
Why he didn't do so more often, who knows?
Just wanted to add to this as before we stopped playing our form wasn’t actually that bad, beating Leicester and Spurs, Hanley playing well at the back. Playing behind closed doors seems to have effected the poorer teams the most too. Chances are we still would have gone down but I think it would have been a lot closer than this, just want Saturday over now so I can start planning away games for next season ( I hope )For me, the whole Covid thing just ruined the season,
you can only piss with the cock that you have.
It is a very odd thing, I can't put my finger on either why they are playing this way, or why they continue to try and make it work. For me, you should only have one full back attacking at one time. You could maybe excuse it if we were making up for a very narrow playing midfield perhaps, but our midfield players do get wide. To some respect attacking fullbacks can make up for the fact that you have little pace from your wide players, but then you would expect to see that change when we have Onel playing. I am not pinning it all, tactically, on Farke, but I do think we are basically firefighting a lot of the time, making up for too many deficiencies in too many players. To make this work we basically have to have every single player playing at 100%, every single game. And that is just not possible frankly, the quality and experience just isn't there.You've touched on lots of different things there, I personally hold Farke responsible for tactics and training.
You refer to defensive unit being organized and responding to game situations i.e. if Max goes up the pitch, the rest of the back four plus a cdm adjusts position to cover.
Farke has coached the team to respond differently.
Currently, Max and Jamal go up the pitch simultaneously when we have possession. The centre backs split out wide and Krul comes forward, often out of the area, and they play as a back three.
With Max and Jamal forward, often we have seen Emi and Onel back covering their positions too.
This is not ideal as they're burning energy up and down the pitch just covering the full backs.
Max and Jamal very rarely put crosses in from at or near the byline. The normal course is for them to cut inside around the 18 yard area and link up with the advanced midfielders.
This then becomes a very congested area with all those attacking players and most of the opposition team back by this time, resulting in the attack being blocked and a long ball kicked out of defence- suddenly we're all panicking chasing it back.
This approach to the game must have been coached by Farke because it happens every game, all game, even when personnel change.
Young and inexperienced players need old heads and quality around them, and we just don't have that.I believe our players have a lot of potential but they are being asked to play in a way which doesn't give them much chance in the modern premier league.
That's the worrying thing about Farke.why they continue to try and make it work