No one is suggesting our squad are world beaters but you can set them up to do the basics. Case in point our set piece defending from last season to this season: the players are average but were good at it once, crap at it now = coaching.
Basics like not passing the ball to the opposition striker?
Let’s not forget the tone for this season was set in the first game. The first meaningful thing any Everton player did this season was Keane just giving the ball to a Southampton striker for him to score. He did something very similar against Leeds.
How many times has Pickford been beaten on his near post this season, or the ridiculous goal against the team where he had it headed out his hands.
Davies going though against United at Old Trafford, and deciding to play a blatantly offside pass rather than hit it anywhere at goal to win the game
Holgate’s red card against Spurs. Godfrey passing it to the Wolves player, messing up tonight as well, Coleman doing the same. Townsend booting the Brentford player in the head.
If you want to say that Benitez hasn’t stopped these players from making asinine mistakes then yes I’d agree with you. If I genuinely thought a new manager would come in and they’d stop doing this crap every week then I’d have Benitez out the door in a second .
They’ve done it for years though. Every manager is the same, they all say coaching is going well, players looking good in training, players fully committed to their methods, then it gets to match day and everything is out the window. Even tonight the first set piece comes in and both Liverpool centre backs are free in the six yard box. Do you think even marking zonally that Benitez coaches that?
Silva tried to coach zonal marking as well. It seems that Chelsea players have no problem with it, and indeed lots of top European sides have no problem with it either. Benitez’s teams in the past didn’t have a problem with it. Keane Coleman Digne Mina Holgate Godfrey do. Most of them did under Silva as well. They can’t concentrate, they can’t execute on tactical instructions.
It’s clear Benitez can’t improve these players, so he’ll be fired that’s inevitable now, I won’t shed a single tear over that believe me. I just do t think anyone can coach them. So what they did alright last season on set pieces when we played 4 CBS and basically told them to sit on the 6 yard line and run at the ball. I’ve not seen any team set up that way before or since. If it was the way forward then Tuchel Guardiola would be using it, but they don’t because they play high defensive lines or zonal marking. I’ve not seen Ancelotti’s Madrid all sitting on the goal line at set pieces either this season.
The players are stupid, have no football intelligence, can’t translate performance storm the training ground to the football pitch and can’t stop making fatal errors. They undermine everything. Another manager will now be fired, it’s inevitable, im sure the new manager won’t have any problems though unlike the previous five.