Pre-season friendly thread

[Freddeno]

Shouldnt even make the challenge

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

What challenge? The guy just dived. It's not one of those "he gave the ref a decision to make" ones, it's pretty clear cut, there wasn't a foul or even close to one.

We do look shit though.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Looked to me like he gave the pen because the player was screaming in pain, but he got hurt when Saiss fell on his leg after he fell over his own feet causing Saiss to trip.

 

[Del Woppio]

Undone so easily by a simple pass. No surprise with that backline

 

[Paul]

Shouldnt even make the challenge

He DIDN'T touch him !!!!

 

[big mean bunny]

He got the ball there, surely!

Regardless its not looked good, attacking is no better than last year but the defensive shape/system is worse, lots of poor pressing and allowing loads of space.

 

[Freddeno]

Ok we have no VAR here so have to take that in mind too..just a friendly i guess

 

[Freddeno]

Which is Trincaos role in the team?

 

[Wolfmania]

Struggling to understand how we want to use Traore, he seems to be deliberately avoiding runs into the box in favour of staying near the outside for some reason

 

[Freddeno]

Neves seemed to have learned to lean over the ball when he shoots(again)

 

[PuntsWolf]

The back 5 isn’t much better (I don’t actually think it is better) than what Albion put put out last night. Marcal and Hoever aren’t attacking options and Saiss and Kilman aren’t really the answer.

Add in the midfield 2 and I don’t really know what the manager can do tbh.

Until our players stop getting injured and we decide to sign some people then we’re going to be a bit rubbish.

 

[Del Woppio]

Which is Trincaos role in the team?

From what I've seen of him in preseason, I'd say "floating around doing fuck all"

 

[Deano]

I can't see that we are trying to play this high possession high pressing football that some tried to convince themselves of.

If we are trying to play like that then we are 0/10 at it.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The back 5 isn’t much better (I don’t actually think it is better) than what Albion put put out last night. Marcal and Hoever aren’t attacking options and Saiss and Kilman aren’t really the answer.

Add in the midfield 2 and I don’t really know what the manager can do tbh.

Until our players stop getting injured and we decide to sign some people then we’re going to be a bit rubbish.

Plenty of managers make a team greater than the sum of their parts.

What good managers don't do is put starting XIs out that obviously won't work.

 

[Paul]

Until our players stop getting injured and we decide to sign some people then we’re going to be a bit rubbish.

If that's what you expect then the worse that can happen is to meet your expectations

 

[Freddeno]

I guess Lages wishes of three or four quality signings in the window are valid to make us competitive

 

[PuntsWolf]

Plenty of managers make a team greater than the sum of their parts.

What good managers don't do is put starting XIs out that obviously won't work.

He doesn’t have anything else available?

 

[Freddeno]

Imagine if we got Asensio from Real instead of Trincao

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He doesn’t have anything else available?

He does, he could play a midfield three, he could have played Dendoncker (not that I'm his biggest fan at the moment), he could play RAN so we have at least one wingback who can attack properly.

He could also not set us up in a way that means every time we lose possession or the opposition play a ball down the channel, we look like we're going to concede.

 

[Haggstone]

Well that wasn’t very good.