GoN got that horribly wrong last night for 60 minutes, he needs to own that rather than say we were good for large parts of the game because that's bollocks.
He'll learn and his in-game management need to improve.
Agree with
@YoungWolf we were all over the place to start with. No pattern with the ball, defensively all over the place (seemed to be no plan at all) and persisting with this ridiculous Beale/ Lage tactic of trying to draw the opposition onto them whilst playing at zero tempo. Sitting Doyle too deep and Toti having a complete disaster didn't help the situation either as well as picking the wrong team as nearly everybody has pointed out.
It was as poor a 45 minutes as we've played and GoN going back to look at his iPad after 20 minutes is just fucking ridiculous. Just manage what's in front of you FFS. Cunha Very frustrated at what were evidently shit instructions, and this was all in the first 25 minutes.
I have no idea why he didn't change it at HT, that seemed insane to me and even now I still don't know what he was expecting.
The change in tactics as much as the subs made a huge difference. They were terrified of RAN, the dynamism of Gomes and actually having to pick up 4 instead of 3 forwards.
Things we knew already but for some inexplicable reason GoN refused to accept:
Doc is shit
Fraser can be effective
Sarabia is a good footballer when played in the right position
Kilman isn't very good
Doc is still shit
Bellegarde isn't a false 9
Counter attacking football without a 9 doesn't work
Zero tempo football is shit to watch and ineffective as a game plan
Sa is still a liability
Jeff Shi is a lying cunt
Doc is still fucking shit
Things we didn't know about this team:
Nothing
It was a very good game to watch if ultimately frustrating.
