It looked to me like they were doing exactly what he asks them to do. We’ve played long, hopeful balls into the box from the moment he arrived and that’s what we did today.View attachment 288231
Enough said, the players don't want to play how they are coached. Surely only a matter of when not if.
Had he told them to play swift, one touch passes round the edge of the box? Adventurous through balls for strikers to run on to? Overlapping fullbacks to create space for wingers? If he told them to do any of those things it would have been a remarkable change in approach.