These players were fighting fit against Rennes and Man Utd, 1 month ago.
And to think, Beale was his first choice post Lage until Lopetegui came galloping over the horizon.
A positive move. Pity they can’t figure out another way of attacking apart from the flanks.
The hiring of JL and his many assistants seems to indicate that cheap is not the Wolves strategy.
They aren't going to sack him, they expect to go down, the money means a new ground to them.
That indicates that it wasn't the strategy.
This is the one. Thanks very much. From what I remember it's well worth a watch and I'll comment when I've seen it.
That’s a fair question.
Cause and effect confused again.
That’s hardly fair…….or accurate.
We lost the manager because the strategy changed. It's obvious, here it is in the sporting directors own words, but it got worse again. Hence we didn't 'balance out', we made a huge profit (even including the January signings).
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Agree with what you wrote about the substitutions. Semedo needed help and the midfield was definitely tiring (I saw that in the Crystal Palace game, too). I think that he knew that Liverpool was going to come out hard for a big push to equalize so he was playing to absorb the attack and then counterattacking when Liverpool was pushed up. For that, you need some speed up top and Sasa is a lot of things, but pace-merchant he is not! In hindsight, we probably needed someone to hold up the ball more than we needed the speed...and we all know that Fabio is not very good at holding up the ball right now. Maybe the RAN injury screwed up the subs pattern a bit...
Positive signs maybe but when defensive collapses keep happening that is hugely concerning ??
The mental fragility of our defense is concerning—we saw it last year against Brighton, too—it’s the second or third goal where a team just seems to walk right through the middle of our box and no one seems to stop the run. It might be the coaching, but I suspect it’s the players. I’m going to start watching Kilman closely, tbh. He’s been a split second too late to react and that’s too long at the elite level—and he needs a mean streak. I wonder if Toti or Bueno bring more of that…
But it has changed.
Everything is starting to feel very bukta/Chaucer/goal music/pie and a pint/Conor Washington
Okay we maybe scoring slightly more but we are letting double the figures in at present compared to last season. Total recipe for disaster just go to a back 3/5 and contain teams and counter them with our fast players Neto, Bellegarde, Cunha, Hwang. Don’t understand the need for two defensive midfielders on the pitch in Gomes and Lemina either unless we want to play with out and out wingers they simply move the ball on to. Bellegarde can’t be expected to do it all himself. We did look so lost when he went off. Devoid of ideas
Oh dear. Just watched that half hour video with Dazzling Dave talking to the B'mouth fan, Kirk, about his memories of GON. I urge all Wolves fans to give it a watch. It is not pretty viewing. Kirk seems like a pretty fair-minded guy and not out to stir things up but be honest and straight. His final analysis was that we will be looking for a new manager by Xmas. He sees this appt for Wolves as cheap and low risk. In 37 games last season Kirk says GON showed no identity in his play, no philosophy or tactical awareness, he'd flip flop between a 4 and a 5 at the back. His formations were 'all over the place'. Players were often played out of position. He tended to over-think things based on who the opposition were. He averaged under 1 goal a game and B'mouth fans never really understood what he was trying to do or achieve. Worryingly he says that GON did not react to situations during games but tended to let things roll on. His use of subs was poor - an example was not playing Kieffer Moore up top when he had FBs on crossing the ball; he brings KM on and takes the FBs off!? He relied on 1 player, Tavenier, to basically get him out of jail on numerous occasions (Molineux being one!)
I wonder if Kirk would have liked any of these at Bournemouth?
I dont know i see an identity which is forming united liverpool similar halves
Managers get the boot due to poor results yet O Neil kept them up and got sacked which tells you all you need to know.
It actually tells me more about what you want to know.
Watch the vid as you get a more picture of things at B'mouth under GON by someone who watched all his 37 games.
Thanks for that.
I think the RAN injury didn't help. Lost a sub with that for tweaking things. The ideal solution was a back five for me, so Doc for Hwang like for like was the main issue subs-wise.
Wasn't Edwards interviewed after Lage, and supposed to have impressed? JL then became available.
Great observation. Well done. I went back and watched the Liverpool with your comments in mind and there it was, Dawson, RAN and Kilman tried this very same pass, angled to one of our midfielders. I also noticed when this pass was successful the eventual build up play was more measured, better paced and less hectic.
