27-12-2020, 05:03 PM
Strange one for me yesterday. Hughton replaced a ball-playing centre half with one who hoofs it 60 yards--and that seemed to be the strategy all day long. Shambolic tactics. We were playing Birmingham, a shockingly bad group of hoofers and our tactics were to play their game by doing the same. I want Hughton to be given time but there are some alarming remnants of Lamouchi that remain and are holding us back: the appalling lack of movement that leaves us zero options going forward, the slowness with which the ball progresses, the reliance on wingers or overlapping fullbacks who can't cross a ball as our only source for creating chances and the gaping hole in the middle of the park between midfield and attack. Embarrassing that a veteran manager put a team out to play this way. Agricultural crap. Finally, if you're going to play Mighten (which you should), get him the ball on the deck and let him run at defenders with attacking support, don't have him chasing balls waiting for them to emerge from the clouds and hoping he can out jump a 6'4 defender.