I am just fed up of this… he saved us myth, it’s not true and he’s a large part of the reason we even been in the mess in the 1st place. He an extremely limited manager who tactics no longer work in the modern game
He doesn’t really employ tactics as such .
We pack the box by surrendering the midfield and control of the game .
But it’s not really tactical, it’s putting bodies in the way of the opposition attack .
We don’t seem to attempt to isolate the opposition attackers before dispossessing them. To create traps for them . Or corral them in areas where we can outnumber them .
We just crowd the last third .
When we do win possession, the team doesn’t have a shape that allows us to exploit it immediately, there is no oblique shape , players in position to exploit the situation and transition to attack , everyone is too busy running out of the last third and we quickly lose any advantage, get bogged down in midfield, lose it or hoof it .
Because we are so condensed at the back our attacker is always isolated.
The sum effect of all this is that our defence faces more attacks because we rarely have control of the ball . The more attacks you face the more chance of individual mistakes leading to goals.
At the other end we don’t provide enough service to the attack , which means our striker needs to be scoring 1in 2 chances to profit from attacks .
1in 2 strikers don’t play for clubs at the bottom of the table .