Post Match Man United 2-2 - Sunday 5th January

[StevieM]

As I've found out, psychology is a massive part of management nowadays. Id sack of training this week, give them each a axe and tell them all to go and chop down a tree before the match with Forest.

Also, If we're lucky, Nunez will probably miss the tree and end up decapitating himself

Did you send the P4AH FC squad off to “chop trees” after they bottled it and finished 2nd in the Championship?

 

[Frogfish]

I certainly don't think it's a cert that we'll win, but we are top of the League, all our starters are fit, and Slot seems to have studied a video of the Forest match every night.

How the in the world are you depressed?

This is Moron's natural state.

 

[MomoWASright]

I think what’s happening is that teams are deploying more numbers in a deep block at Anfield than they are their own grounds, which is why our away results have looked so good.

That’s the fear for the second half of the season - as teams scrap for points it’ll lead to them deploying whatever tactics they can to get a point.

This is where, in theory, someone like Trent with his passing and someone like Chiesa, who defenders aren’t used to, could be the difference.

I’m going to disagree with you on this as I watched Forest do pretty much this against Wolves on Monday albeit not as low as Anfield which would be expected. They just kept hitting them on the counter. Fulham also did the same at home to Arsenal.

Even away to Man U they started pressing and harrying us from the start and it took them 10 minutes at the weekend to do the same. The difference was we were more on it away and took our chances taking the wind out of their sails.

I’d agree with you on Chiesa because nobody knows what he’s going to do as there is nothing to go on.

 

[StevieM]

I’m going to disagree with you on this as I watched Forest do pretty much this against Wolves on Monday albeit not as low as Anfield which would be expected. They just kept hitting them on the counter. Fulham also did the same at home to Arsenal.

Even away to Man U they started pressing and harrying us from the start and it took them 10 minutes at the weekend to do the same. The difference was we were more on it away and took our chances taking the wind out of their sails.

I’d agree with you on Chiesa because nobody knows what he’s going to do as there is nothing to go on.

Well, you’re probably right - that was probably a bit simplistic on my part, in that I didn’t expand it to include the fact that some teams like definitely Forest and maybe Fulham aren’t doing the “play out from the back” thing or trying to hold a high line or trying to hold possession - I’d imagine Everton aren’t doing any of that either, but I’ll be fucked if I’m going to sit through one of their games to find out.

So, you got teams that have a “specific style” and stick to it and you’ve got teams that’ll tweak that style when the feel they have to - almost guaranteed Arsenal will play a low block at Anfield and try to hit us on the counter (or more likely hope to score from a set piece).

Then you’ve got teams like Wolves, Southampton, Leicester, Ipswich, etc, that probably need to change their style in the second half of the season.

Utd aren’t doing any an interesting one - that guts of that squad had their best season playing Ole’s counterattacking shite and Amorim got them playing well in that style at the weekend- sane as Ten Hag did in the same fixture last season.

I just worry we ‘ll see more teams play that type of games against us now as teams have seen decent results from doing it.

This is where our forwards need to be clinical, so that these fuckers don’t hang in there for 85 mins thinking they’re still in with a chance.

We can be wasteful once we’re 3-0…