• Welcome, guest!

    This is a forum devoted to discussion of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
    Why not sign up and contribute? Registered members get a fully ad-free experience!

The Football News Thread 2024/25

Kenny said:
If AI is correct we will all be pissed off but Forest are about to have the collapse to end all collapses

View attachment 12590
Click to expand...
1) I'm never correct
2) Unless I'm describing tactics to an LLM, apparently:
Me: As a means to create quality chances, O'Neil would often have the CMs drift extraordinarily high and/or wide, without a rotation to fill the gap behind them. This dreadfully exposed our defense, particularly the center halves, who IMO are decent Premier League players, but can't be asked to defend equal number attacks (ie, 3v3, 2v2, 1v1, etc) as the standard defensive situation and not concede at least once.

Claude: This is excellent tactical analysis - it explains both the scoring output and defensive fragility I noted in the numbers. The picture you paint of the CMs' positioning helps explain that strange dichotomy in the statistics (good attacking numbers, poor defensive record). It's a classic case where the raw numbers told part of the story, but the tactical detail you've provided explains the "why" behind them.

The issue you describe with the CMs' positioning without rotational cover is particularly interesting because it's almost a perfect recipe for what we've seen:
  1. It would create good attacking opportunities (explaining the solid goal count)
  2. But leave center backs in those nightmare equal-number situations you described
  3. The far post set piece vulnerability suggests a broader issue with defensive organization
Click to expand...
Who wants to sponsor me for getting my coaching badges?
 
When did Walsall become the main team in L2?

1735759538093.png

Also, stupidly tight from 2nd place down. Salford all of a sudden flying, last time I looked at this table they were down in the bottom 6

MK are 11th and 3 points off the Play Offs as well.
 
Kenny said:
When did Walsall become the main team in L2?

View attachment 12594

Also, stupidly tight from 2nd place down. Salford all of a sudden flying, last time I looked at this table they were down in the bottom 6

MK are 11th and 3 points off the Play Offs as well.
Click to expand...
Hasn't Giggs started to get involved with the team recently?

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

Ryan Giggs makes surprise return to the dugout

Ex-Wales boss Giggs is a part-owner of League Two Salford, along with former Manchester United team-mates David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and the Neville brothers, Gary and Phil.
www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
 
So it would appear that la liga are going to allow barca to register the players after being shown contracts for the eventual £100m sale of VIP seats that dont exist yet.

nothing dodgy there at all. no siree.
 
I'm sure this must have been on SSN, but I've only just seen it elsewhere. Exeter lost 2-1 to Wycombe on New Years Day to a goal scored by Aaron Morley on loan from Bolton in injury time. Bolton recalled him and Exeter lost 2-1 to Bolton on 4th Jan to a goal scored by Aaron Morley in injury time
 
arteta blaming the ball for his sides inability to score.
i can't stand arteta, and i regularly feel the way he carries and conducts himself to be overstepping the mark.
I can't help but feel it could be hilarious if he turns arsenal, a team who have played entertaining football for a loooong time, into a subset of pulis era stoke.
 
lemonjelly said:
arteta blaming the ball for his sides inability to score.
i can't stand arteta, and i regularly feel the way he carries and conducts himself to be overstepping the mark.
I can't help but feel it could be hilarious if he turns arsenal, a team who have played entertaining football for a loooong time, into a subset of pulis era stoke.
Click to expand...
Pep blamed the balls when they failed to beat us before penalties in the same competition in 2017.
 
It's potentially a plausible excuse if you're playing a non PL team that would be used to the different ball, but not if you've just been beat by a team in the same situation as you.
Makes him look like (more of) a nob.
 
Can someone start throwing some at Sa?
3 points a pop 🙂
 
Bentancur only out for a few weeks with concussion.

"It looks like a concussion but nothing more than that. He was in the hospital, obviously, and they did all of the tests in terms of checking, making sure everything is okay," Postecoglou told reporters on Friday ahead of his team's FA Cup third-round clash at minor league side Tamworth.
"And all good. He is back home. He is fine. He is feeling good. We'll obviously follow the protocols now. I think it is a couple of weeks where you have to make sure everything is ok
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Deutsch Wolf
How do we compare to...
2
Replies
38
Views
2K
Keef
Keef
Deutsch Wolf
Live Match Discussion 2024/25
181 182 183
Replies
4K
Views
118K
jd1981
jd1981
Deutsch Wolf
Bully at 60
2
Replies
26
Views
1K
Wulfie88
W
Deutsch Wolf
The Euro 2024 Thread
181 182 183
Replies
4K
Views
112K
Sniffer
Sniffer
Deutsch Wolf
10 Best/Worst PL Wolves performances
2 3
Replies
51
Views
2K
Paddingtonwolf
Paddingtonwolf
Back
Top