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Sissoko left, Townsend right needs to go away sharpish. No threat down the flanks playing like that. Especially ridiculous when we've got Mitrovic at CF.

 

It's supposed to be the full backs that provide the width and the overlap so that Sissoko and Townsend can cut inside, but we don't have the players for it. I'm not sure putting Townsend on the left is a good idea though.

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Benitez will learn more about his players during a game than he ever will during training.  He'll make mistakes because he might have too much faith in players he doesn't really know yet but he got us a point that we wouldn't have had without him.  I'll give him 8 out of 10 again today for the simple reason that he's still learning but is also effective with his changes.

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De jong has been so poor he again brought nothing to the game. But 2nd half was a big improvement so team talk and tactics change worked at least.

 

:nope:

 

:thup: De Jong is tactically much smarter than Perez. His positional play between the lines creates space for other players, bringing him on changed the game IMO.

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Surprised how little we improved today. 10% atmost.

I am not getting on Rafa's back by any means but we still play like strangers.

This is the most diffcult thing to fix, i am sure Rafa will get it eventually but we might not have enough time.

 

We need to start playing like a team if we want to get out of this and now its doesn't look like its moving that way yet.

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Surprised how little we improved today. 10% atmost.

I am not getting on Rafa's back by any means but we still play like strangers.

This is the most diffcult thing to fix, i am sure Rafa will get it eventually but we might not have enough time.

 

We need to start playing like a team if we want to get out of this and now its doesn't look like its moving that way yet.

 

In his first two games he has tried different starting lineups. I really love that.

 

You can see he's trying to find the right formula. Our squad is oddly balanced and none of us yet know how best to utilise the players either.

 

He'll get it right because he's clearly making the right subs so he knows when it isn't quite working.

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A weak manager would have taken Perez and Mitrovic off and put Cisse and De Jong on for them. But Rafa kept all his attacking players on bar Townsend and kept faith in them. It paid off.

 

Think he'll get rid of Sissoko on the left. Think he was only there to protect Colback. If we have one of our LB back, then Townsend would be there again. Sissoko can't go on one of his driving runs with his right foot playing on the left.

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Break will be huge. Hopefully see a couple of options at the back reappear, especially on the left and he can start drilling an organised defence for the remaining games.

 

I'm hoping he's sussed Colback and only used him due to having no other option.

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Think this fortnight international break might've come at the right time for us. 4-4-2 didn't seem to work for us today, need to either work on that or get 2 weeks of something else trained before the Norwich game.

 

gives him time to watch a few videos of the crap he has inherited

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God, just thinking about it. It really would be torture. What an incredibly cruel tease to have had a genius in the dugout for a bit, only to have all that passion and reinvigorated hope just smashed again.

 

Absolutely vintage NUFC

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Little thing, but I was impressed by how he handled the Mitrovic fiasco.

 

Yeah. Pretty sure I saw him saying it was his decision. Calm and collected under pressure. I still have faith in him to get us out of this mess.

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