Plan B
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Well certainly bringing big Andy on would have been a decent plan B, just kidding.
I guess plan B was bringing on another striker, Sturridge who wasn't fit.
So we actually need to talk about plan C, which was Aspas and he did like on or two good things but several terrible things.
It's interesting I remember seeing an interview with gerrard in which he was talking about Rodgers. He basically said Rodgers does not have a plan b as plan a should work.
Plan B is a shit cliché wheeled out by Redknapp and the likes. Why would we change the way we play when we twat teams every week? Certain things need tweaking, not an overhaul of system just because it's not going right at a particular moment in time.
Today was a perfect game for Chelsea. They sat to defend and keep a clean sheet - they weren't coming to win, they didn't expect to win given what was being said prior to the game. Anything else they got was a bonus. They got the biggest slice of luck ever and carried on doing what they were before. It was the quintessential "disrupt the opposition and park the bus and hope for the best". We got done.
Today was a perfect game for Chelsea. They sat to defend and keep a clean sheet - they weren't coming to win, they didn't expect to win given what was being said prior to the game. Anything else they got was a bonus. They got the biggest slice of luck ever and carried on doing what they were before. It was the quintessential "disrupt the opposition and park the bus and hope for the best". We got done.
But that's not a plan. That's a sub.
Our plan changed over the course of the game several times dramatically. Initially we tried to play it through them, then we tried to cross, then we took pot shots from everywhere.
I just want someone to tell me (as a few people have mentioned plan B) how they would have liked us to play
Isn't that when we stick a CB up front - like Jose's Plan B - tactical Genius that is.
Fecking quiffer
Apparently Atkinson only found his cards in stoppage time.
Playing with 10 men would even be more helpful than having Aspas.
Having Aspas.
Hell, even his fucking name sounds like a disease.
it doesn't mean that, really. Squad players aren't plan B, they're plan B if the team changes it's way of playing to utilise players/space. Hence Andy Carroll being classed as plan B, as we would change our way of playing to utilise him.
And sturridge is kind of a good player.
All tried today.
Changed our methods of attack, or formation, and our bench (sturridge is decent).
I'm waiting for someone to tell me what they would have done different to Rodgers today.
I hate to draw this parallel but Ginsoak's teams never failed to up the ante when they were behind. Till the final whistle they would be trying to push the ball up the field as soon as possible and not wasting time during free kicks, throw-ins etc.Sometimes they would get caught on the counter and concede.But I have too many memories of the opposite happening where they draw in the final few minutes of Fergie's time. That's what I call grinding out a result.
Our build-up even after going a goal down was way too slow at times. It was as if we knew we were going to score somehow, so why not just take chill-pill and let it come naturally.
Our build-up even after going a goal down was way too slow at times. It was as if we knew we were going to score somehow, so why not just take chill-pill and let it come naturally.
Exactly
We changed how we were attacking, we tried our best, but we struggled. Any team would.
Rodgers made arguably 1 mistake today by starting lucas, but that only became apparent after the game started.
What more could Rodgers have done?
Very little
Three at the back maybe so that the full backs can just attack? Put Sterling at the tip of the diamond? Play defensively as well since Chelsea was doing the same?
We tried 3 at the back with full backs.
I'd rather not rely on our defensive ability
Sterling at the tip of the diamond could have worked when sturridge came on, but again, we would have been trying to play through their defence, which failed miserably for a good while
I think we could have just played.Chelsea at their own game by keeping possession and not attacking as much. Be professional so to speak.
To be fair, we were doing that, until an error led to the goal. Then we HAD to try and take the game by the scruff of the neck.
Don't quite get what his point there would be. It's not like we didn't try and work our way down the flanks. Sadly they had good (if not massive fucking cunty) fullbacks, who would have shut us out.
Ideally we should have isolated kalas, but he rarely was on his own with no cover ahead or behind him
I think the bench was the key today. Chelsea's 2nd goal scorer is a player Brendan wanted but it was Chelsea that could bring him on.
Aspas was awful. But I thought we'd have brought on Alberto as he's supposed to be very handy from the edge of the box.
Aspas was awful. But I thought we'd have brought on Alberto as he's supposed to be very handy from the edge of the box.
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