2019/20 Marco Silva

[Axlswhk]

“I was impressed with the quality of the football we showed this afternoon and [was pleased] to see our players expressing themselves on the pitch,” Silva said afterwards. “The pace we played, the intensity we played with when we lost the ball, and our organisation…

“Of course, there were some very good individual performances but, in general, as a collective we did really well with a lot of mobility in our offensive organisation. The three front players played a very good game with Alex in behind.

He sound surprise at how well we do and it appears he stumble upon a working formula. To be honest many of us have been screaming for Schneiderlin to be drop ages ago and desperately want us to play with pace n tempo.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

“I was impressed with the quality of the football we showed this afternoon and [was pleased] to see our players expressing themselves on the pitch,” Silva said afterwards. “The pace we played, the intensity we played with when we lost the ball, and our organisation…

“Of course, there were some very good individual performances but, in general, as a collective we did really well with a lot of mobility in our offensive organisation. The three front players played a very good game with Alex in behind.

He sound surprise at how well we do and it appears he stumble upon a working formula. To be honest many of us have been screaming for Schneiderlin to be drop ages ago and desperately want us to play with pace n tempo.

The concern for me is how can a bloke earning £4 million a year take longer to realise what changes were needed to be made over your regular joe in the stand.

Playing Schneiderlin alone is a farce the blokes utterly useless.

 

[Archie Knox]

I'd like to see him come out and say the Brighton game is also must-win. Surely he knows that losing four on the spin, winning one in impressive form, then going back to dropping points against an awful team is simply not good enough?

But unfortunately that win has bought him more time now, and even another insipid display against Brighton will probably leave him safe in his job.

 

[Blue Magic]

Stupid he is still here seeing as mourinho is practically begging for a job.
Surely moshiri must have some sort of plan to take us to the next level

Mourinho got a £20m payoff from his last job. He’s not exactly queuing up at the dole office.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Mourinho got a £20m payoff from his last job. He’s not exactly queuing up at the dole office.

My source told me Allegri is apparently gagging for it.

Doubt we'll be going for him now which is a shame as he could take us to "the next level"

 

[degsy]

I'd like to see him come out and say the Brighton game is also must-win. Surely he knows that losing four on the spin, winning one in impressive form, then going back to dropping points against an awful team is simply not good enough?

But unfortunately that win has bought him more time now, and even another insipid display against Brighton will probably leave him safe in his job.

True, though Brighton are not total easy beats and do a good set piece.
You're not only as good as your LAST game.
You're only as good as your NEXT game
Same again
One
Game
At
A
Time

 

[Toast]

True, though Brighton are not total easy beats and do a good set piece.
You're not only as good as your LAST game.
You're only as good as your NEXT game
Same again
One
Game
At
A
Time

Weirdly I would like us to go behind against Brighton and then come on strong and smash them.

Get this not able to go behind and win thing kicked into touch.

 

[degsy]

Weirdly I would like us to go behind against Brighton and then come on strong and smash them.

Get this not able to go behind and win thing kicked into touch.

A bit ambitious that, start by working on not conceding and drawing a hard away game.
Or go for broke and put 5 on them before HT.
I'm easy either way, but would prefer the 5 goal thing tbh.

 

[Sheedy's right knee.]

A bit ambitious that, start by working on not conceding and drawing a hard away game.
Or go for broke and put 5 on them before HT.
I'm easy either way, but would prefer the 5 goal thing tbh.

Just a win would do for me.

 

[murphy89]

The concern for me is how can a bloke earning £4 million a year take longer to realise what changes were needed to be made over your regular joe in the stand.

Playing Schneiderlin alone is a farce the blokes utterly useless.

Maybe because he sees them every day and there might also be other mitigating circumstances that we have no idea about. Maybe Davies wasn't performing training and Scheniderlin was? Davies had some good games for England before the weekend and so Silva thought it was the right time to bring him in.

Think about this way, you're managing a side that is struggling to win games. Do you drop a player that is performing in training for someone who isn't? We only see the players for 90mins.

 

[Melkor]

Losing to Millwall in the FA Cup last year, should have been his last game for us!

 

[Toffeelover]

I'd like to see him come out and say the Brighton game is also must-win. Surely he knows that losing four on the spin, winning one in impressive form, then going back to dropping points against an awful team is simply not good enough?

But unfortunately that win has bought him more time now, and even another insipid display against Brighton will probably leave him safe in his job.

We all know it is a must win.

 

[riddick]

Maybe because he sees them every day and there might also be other mitigating circumstances that we have no idea about. Maybe Davies wasn't performing training and Scheniderlin was? Davies had some good games for England before the weekend and so Silva thought it was the right time to bring him in.

Think about this way, you're managing a side that is struggling to win games. Do you drop a player that is performing in training for someone who isn't? We only see the players for 90mins.

Flip that around, how do you stick with a player no matter how he does in training is he is utterly woeful for the 90 minutes a week that ACTUALLY matter? Phil fn Neville was picked every single week no matter how crap he was with Coleman being superb when called upon.

His job is to get results in those 90 minutes. Not the other 6.9 days of the week.

 

[blueblue]

The win on Saturday was more than welcome , the nature of the performance was equally as important and equally positive.

What I wonder is who was responsible for the personnel changes and the tactical changes.
It was quite a dramatic shift from previous games, in particular leaving out both Schneiderlin and Sigurdsson.

Sidibe was an enforced change, Richarlison had not played at all in the middle although he did well last year and Iwobi in the middle although welcome it was hardly expected. Bernard seemed to have drifted from being a regular starter and Tom Davies was a regular topic on here because he seemed to have been almost completely sidelined. So we saw a team that was very different from the previous games even nearly all the players have been available all season.

I said on Saturday that it was a brave selection, but I wonder who was the driving force behind such radical changes.

 

[Lelouch]

The win on Saturday was more than welcome , the nature of the performance was equally as important and equally positive.

What I wonder is who was responsible for the personnel changes and the tactical changes.
It was quite a dramatic shift from previous games, in particular leaving out both Schneiderlin and Sigurdsson.

Sidibe was an enforced change, Richarlison had not played at all in the middle although he did well last year and Iwobi in the middle although welcome it was hardly expected. Bernard seemed to have drifted from being a regular starter and Tom Davies was a regular topic on here because he seemed to have been almost completely sidelined. So we saw a team that was very different from the previous games even nearly all the players have been available all season.

I said on Saturday that it was a brave selection, but I wonder who was the driving force behind such radical changes.

well Schneiderlin was injured so we'll never know who would have played if he wasn't.