Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

[Yiddo]

Well atleast Poch will inherit a good team.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

Some of the posters on this forum are either too young or too stupid to remember that.

Or not stupid enough to compare two incomparable situations

 

[BigChiv9]

The first goal came from Saudi Sportswashing Machine’s tactical decision to push their right back high and wide creating a spare man and dragging Robertson out of position. It happened in the first few minutes and was pointed out by Carragher throughout the game but it seems RDZ did nothing to combat it.

 

[elltrev]

The first goal came from Saudi Sportswashing Machine’s tactical decision to push their right back high and wide creating a spare man and dragging Robertson out of position. It happened in the first few minutes and was pointed out by Carragher throughout the game but it seems RDZ did nothing to combat it.

Yeah I found that a bit of a concern, that Tel’s instructions were seemingly not to track the full back. And then Elanga was Tonali’s responsibility rather than VDV’s, for some reason. Seems very easy to exploit if that will always be our system.

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

We looked similarly patchy for the first 10 or so weeks under Poch, then it all suddenly clicked

Yeah and I think Poch was seeing which players would truly buy in, giving players like Adebayor enough rope to hang themselves before deploying Mason, Bentaleb, Kane and Townsend and starting the ascent.

I think here the squad is in a similar position. I think De Zerbi is very conscious of not having anyone hanging about who isn’t fully bought in or doesn’t see Spurs as the best place for them. Hence the sales of Spence and the willingness to let anyone go who says they want to go. So the squad is still in this position of a few players probably not here for the long haul, and that’s going to make it harder for everything to click. Once the window is closed, players will have to lock in or be bombed out, and I think it will start to come together.

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

The first goal came from Saudi Sportswashing Machine’s tactical decision to push their right back high and wide creating a spare man and dragging Robertson out of position. It happened in the first few minutes and was pointed out by Carragher throughout the game but it seems RDZ did nothing to combat it.

I don’t think this is a weakness so much as that we simply have to score from the chances we create if we are going to do this. We had opportunities. We just didn’t execute.