Vitor Pereira - Our Manager

[wassy04]

The results have improved a little, 7 unbeaten in all comps and 5 unbeaten in the league including Villa and Man City.

That said for me, the main difference is just the overall performance level has gone up. Not that we've necessarily maintained that level in every game but I think that is to be expected given the rotation/extra Europa matches. He's tinkered regularly with tactics both pre game and in game which is also great to see and something that neither Dyche or Nuno did really aside from bringing a 3rd CB on.

I still feel like that performance in Denmark and what he got out of that team was the most impressive performance and gave us real momentum.

Side point on the Dyche v Vitor, why did Dyche pick Morato over Cunha? Cunha has just looked so comfortable whenever played under Vitor, maybe you could say it's easier playing CB in a back 3 rather than a 4 but he just looks clearly better than Morato in all areas. Was one of those things that most fans were getting frustrated by when Morato was making mistakes and it seems like that was correct.

(I fear we may see both Morato and Cunha on Friday)

At the risk of being seen as someone regularly defending Dyche, the only argument for Morato is in a relegation fight do you go with the older player with PL experience or gamble on the 20 YO? Its a gamble Vitor is benefitting from, certainly. 

On that point, I'm very much with Salv, Dyche does what Dyche does, the stick he's getting seems a little bit much a times given his record whilst uninspiring was certainly not in the same bracket as Chris Hughton which many compare him to. I think you're right Wassy, Vitor certainly seems to have them playing better at times but the same failings all season have been there for all managers, finishing and sometimes throwing in sub-par performances like the first half vs Burnley.

It depends if you think Dyche was lucky to get the points he did or that was about par for the level of performances. Personally I think we were lucky to beat Brentford and West Ham. He was unlucky vs Wolves and Palace though.