How unfit we are

[sdk]

Graham Potter would get them fit and firing.

Yeah, but try getting a decent ice cream in Brighton.

 

[Split]

How to press when Lampard plays cowardly football. We can buy 5 new strikers, but as long as Lampard is on the bench, there will be no progress.

 

[Steve EFC]

How to press when Lampard plays cowardly football. We can buy 5 new strikers, but as long as Lampard is on the bench, there will be no progress.

Bit harsh IMO. His football is based on this season so far?! (You can’t base ‘his’ football on last season surely as that was about survival.)
The football so far has been better than this time last season just without the results. The results have suffered because we’ve got no striker. That’s not lampard’s fault and it’s also not lampards fault that Richarlison was sold and that we are hamstrung by FFP.
I would have thought we need to reserve fair judgement him until October at least?!

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Was a few fittys sat by us yesterday… Oh, you mean the players, didn’t even notice them.

 

[Zeitgeist]

It's very rare a team sustains pressure for a whole game the way we was at the start

Our problem is we  never score when we are absolutely penning them in

 

[peteblue]

How to press when Lampard plays cowardly football. We can buy 5 new strikers, but as long as Lampard is on the bench, there will be no progress.

No mate…you need to get involved first and pretend you support the blues, then after a while just slag them off like the rest of the RS…….

 

[Yarrgh]

Jesus Christ we are a pitiful bunch on here.

Be the wrong weather or hard pitches next.

We're just not very good. Deal with it

Everton: Give it to me straight, what's wrong with me?

Doctor: You're rubbish.

Everton: I want a second opinion!

Doctor: You're also lazy.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I don't think our fitness is a problem, the problem is we're just cack.

 

[lancs blue]

Sad they sacked the fitness coach and replaced him

 

[Abertonian]

The smartest teams conserve energy by controlling the game. I'd rather we were better at that than be the best athletes in the league.

 

[COYB75]

We are definitely unfit. Unfit to play a high press high tempo game for 90mins. No doubt about it.

No team does a high press tempo for 90 mins. The likes of City and the RS have the ball for the majority of the game, so they don’t need to press. They only press when needed. We would need to press for a much longer period which is so difficult to do. We just need to be less cack when we do have the ball.

 

[kiss the crest]

Bit harsh IMO. His football is based on this season so far?! (You can’t base ‘his’ football on last season surely as that was about survival.)
The football so far has been better than this time last season just without the results. The results have suffered because we’ve got no striker. That’s not lampard’s fault and it’s also not lampards fault that Richarlison was sold and that we are hamstrung by FFP.
I would have thought we need to reserve fair judgement him until October at least?!

Will FFP disappear in October?
This is all the boards doing, do you think frank said to them when Richarlison left, get me a striker on deadline day

 

[matty1878]

the board is so unfit it’s a joke

 

[matty1878]

Will FFP disappear in October?
This is all the boards doing, do you think frank said to them when Richarlison left, get me a striker on deadline day

 

[Axlswhk]

No team does a high press tempo for 90 mins. The likes of City and the RS have the ball for the majority of the game, so they don’t need to press. They only press when needed. We would need to press for a much longer period which is so difficult to do. We just need to be less cack when we do have the ball.

Leeds did it last night. We did it against brentford and leeds(first 2 game under Lampard).We press well against Chelsea.

We can do better and the game against forest is definitely not the benchmark set by lampard. He is clearly upset about it. High press is a major part of his game plan.