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2021/22 Frank Lampard

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I hope you are right, and I feel the same..
BUT..
We have some proper bluffers in this squad and training staff..

Hope he can take a step back and see them for what they are.
He will.

Get DCL back in on Saturday, richy and Gordon either side, start DVB.

The centre halves are the worry and we only have the chuckle brothers (Keane and Holgate) or Branthwaite to choose from.

2 of them are absolutely pathetic and Branthwaite is raw. That is the main worry.
 

Frank really needs to make a decision on whether now is the right time to be pushing this possession football that builds between CB & CM.

I hope today he realizes that it's likely not possible until we get reinforcements in the summer.
Don't be starting that nonesense mate. Today's defeat is nothing to do with trying to get on the ball and everything to do with our pathetic players not keeping their heads and doing the basics.

Pickford set the tone from the off, trying to wind up their fans and being erratic in what he did. Gomes let people run off him too easily and after half an hour, the midfield stopped pressing in packs like they did against Brentford and Allan was being dragged all over the place. Holgate and Keane were consistently losing their men and diving in erratically. No one was wise to the fact that Newcastle kept taking the same kind of corner. Keane and Gomes switched off to allow Newcastle to equalise straight away when we'd actually somehow managed to get in front.

The players weren't being brave enough to try and slip the ball in front of Richarlison. Playing it to feet or up in the air doesn't suit him. Coleman made so many poor decisions it beggars belief. Townsend was horrible and because we weren't moving effectively in groups, every time the ball moved towards Townsend, he was in a position where he needed pace he didn't have to get beyond them.

Throw in injuries to Gray and Mina and the recipe for disaster is there. It was a shambles and if I am honest, if these injuries are bad, I really do struggle to see us staying up. And it has nothing to do with Lampard and his set-up.
 

Hopefully he ditches the back 3 pronto, terrible formation, we’ve not got the players.

As has been said before, these players have failed under numerous managers. Huge chunks of the squad need moved on and replaced. Difference between him and the last guy is, happy enough with Frank being involved in that moving on/replacing - reckon he’ll at least want us to sign players to try to play football.
 
He got it all wrong. Terrible line up terrible tactics. Be better next time Frankie. Bcs I know you ve got it.
Not sure what tactics he got wrong… as for team selection it was the same as Saturday apart from the enforced changes.
Ultimately the players were all over the place and reverted to type.
 
Not sure what tactics he got wrong… as for team selection it was the same as Saturday apart from the enforced changes.
Ultimately the players were all over the place and reverted to type.
Brentford and NUFC are not the same mate. Different strength different weaknesses.
 

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