Many thanks for that SA W, much appreciated and I'll definitely take note.
but have to say how impressed with Crusaders I was, made it much harder for us than Newcastle did in China & their Goalie was excellent, positioned himself really well for almost every shot, when I think Liverpool took Lonigan on tour, they would have been better off with him! - OK they came to park the bus a bit but also tried some breaks, a bit like us against Man City really - now lets go on & win the CupI think by now we know what kind of manager Nuno is and it is two sides to the coin. What has made him successful is also about his weaknesses. He will basically stick to a plan rigidly and make it work. He is not the kind of manager who looks at the opposition and wildly changes his whole formation match by match to beat the opposition. Under his system we are improving as a team all the time but some matches will leave us in awe and others frustrated.
Yeah, but we weren't playing a team in the Champions League. The opposition was about Conference level. We didn't need to go gung-ho to beat that lot by 4 or 5, just use the players we already have in an appropriate, more attacking formation.
The teams around us who we want to finish ahead of again have players like Sigguardson, Gomes, Maddison, Tielemans who can make a difference in the final 3rd. We’ve got 2 weeks left to address that.
Nuno (in pretty much every press conference in the last 2 years): We don't change how we play, we have our system, our way to play.
Yeah and then when we turn up against a top opposition we just flick the switch and turn it on?
See, this I agree with. But, can only assume we are getting them in.
I hope that some others may see the other side of what they see as a weakness in Traore. Yes he may not be the best passer of a ball but that works two ways in the the attacking players have to make themselves available. Thanks for pointing this out as I have net seen other posters acknowledge this.
Harsh on Ruddy, he's at least 2 shirt sizes slimmer than their guy.
Nonsense. Nuno does change the way he plays. After our 'dip' last autumn when we went 5 or 6 without a win and looked ****e, he went to a three-man midfield (which lots on here were calling for) and turned our form round. I don't get your blind faith: he's a good manager but he doesn't have all the answers all the time, and he would be the first to recognise that.
We won the game. And if I was gonna have blind faith in ANY manager we've had in recent years, it would be Nuno. I don't think there was a lot wrong with how we played tbf, better, sharper finishing and we could easily have had 4 or 5 goals (missing 3 free headers inside the six yard box doesn't help either). Certainly not worthy of calling Nuno a ****ing idiot.
There's no overblown, goal celebration baloney from him. Not a fan of Nuno, then?
Can't believe we didn't get Steve Bruce in from under Newcastle's nose. Wasted opportunity.
Yeah fair enough, was just saying on another day, we could have had 4 or 5.
You're a very naughty boy.
Well he has changed it hasn’t he when it wasn’t working. Gone from having 3 up top with wide players to 3 narrow midfielders with 2 up top so we can press more & hit teams on the break.
Not of fan of the same old thing when we know we’ll struggle. Could have at least left a CM in the hole instead of chasing back & played Vinagre who although erratic can at least go past a player.
