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Why is our defence so bad?

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What amazes me is we always bring back every single player to defend a set piece and they're still terrible.
 
We weren't very good before he arrived though
Zonal.marking we were not good at

We conceded 9 goals from set pieces last season. Defensively we were sound on set pieces plus we were a threat from them offensively.

I think that was our 15th conceded in all comps today and we are just over halfway through the season..

I can't stress this enough, he hasn't got a clue how to set a team up anymore. Hes as finished as a manager as Rondon is a professional footballer.
 
We conceded 9 goals from set pieces last season. Defensively we were sound on set pieces plus we were a threat from them offensively.

I think that was our 15th conceded in all comps today and we are just over halfway through the season..

I can't stress this enough, he hasn't got a clue how to set a team up anymore. Hes as finished as a manager as Rondon is a professional footballer.
Do you think our defenders are good?
 

The only change to our defenders, excluding the new fullbacks, is whatever the manager drills into them in training.

Genuine question: does anyone remember a point in time when we were this vulnerable to set pieces? You can almost guarantee one goal conceded to a set piece per game, if not more. Martinez perhaps? Though this may well be worse.
 
Do you think our defenders are good?

Not in particular no but a decent coach will drill them and play them in a way to get the very best out of them.

He's getting absolutely nothing whatsoever out of that defensive unit and he isn't changing a thing either because the same mistakes are happening, the shape is wring, the formation is wrong, the personel are wrong, the instructions are wrong, the in game management are wrong, the players are confused......I could go on and on and on and on and on and on.

He's so far out of his depth ( and I mean that genuinely ) that its truly frightening. Its clear as day as well and I cant see how anyone can have watched any of our last 10-15 games and not be alarmed by how inept He's been. It's gross mismanagement what we are currently witnessing.

People laughing their heads off as we seen the demise of Mourinho, a manager who looked like he was made of steel, ridiculed in the end because of his outdated tactics. This fella is even worse but the worrying thing is he still believes his way is the the right way.
 
The players aren't very good. Therefore you have to adjust your setup to take account of that. Ancelotti figured it out fairly quickly. Benitez needs to get his head out of his arse and realise that with this team we need to sit deep at free kicks and man mark at corners.
 

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