Bob stark

Defensively Lavia is very bad.

One of the dumbest decision I have seen in recent years from football pov. They were patiently building their team, all they need was to find 1/2 pieces and they would have been a title contender.

United was absolutely fine under Ole they slowly improved their team until they decided to nuke it.

This time our game vs Sociedad. It was basically a 343 with Neto and Palestra as wb. The fun thing with Alonso is that he is not super rigid manager. Sometimes you build with basic 3-2. Sometimes with 4-1, hopefully I don't read anymore of midifelder need to be 2 100% time, dinosaur tactic bs. That is Caicedo dropping as lcb and Fofana n Colwill playing as fb. What I also like is this fun stuff with Colwill (lcb) pushing up creating a 3v3. I prefer this to Maresca rigid 3box3 😅😴 😴 😴 I only watch the 1st half, I don't think we played that well. I don't think we created much. The 1st goal was good pass from James, it created chaos so Sociedad lb was late but neto was still far away. Good cross But this is 4v2, two defender on Jp, two on rogers. You expected your defender to handle this easily. They didn't and Rogers score a tap in. Now let's talk about defense. I don't think we defended that well. 2 min into the game, from Sociedad gk. That should be a tasty pass to the middle but Sociedad cb didn't see him. Doesn't matter. Palestra is late Many talk about cb, cb. 😂😂😂 Now good luck if you are cb. The ball is not far and that is 3v3 on the halfway line with little pressure on the ball. Palestra need to work on his defense and Roger need to be more active defensively. Yes that is kubo (I think) receiving the ball quite far from the goal and he can dribble until inside our box. Kubo once again receive the ball outwide, Palestra allow him to cut inside and Roger doesn't help. There is very dangerous 3v2on the other side. Imo the performance on the 1st half wasn't great at all. If this is the pressing plan then Roger n Palmer need to run back more.

Nah, he won't move to villa. Villa need that Roger number to be intact

It is not about they system.The press from the top last season was very bad.

If our forward press like last year then this won't help

"In our case, we're a Champions League team, we had a Spanish international, and then Crystal Palace, not one of England's top clubs, came along and signed Yeremy Pino for a significant sum of money and with a higher salary than any Spanish team could pay."

In order for you to be match fit or more importantly match sharp, you need to play.

I feel like I say this every season. We sign many new player, I am intrigued to see how they perform but I am not sure what problem do these player fix.

This is is useless if he doesn't play.

For me in pre season, I only look at new guy and kid. These are the players that usually take this kind of game seriously. You want to be really impressed by them.

The way Essugo play in these friendly, Coventry midfielder has to be extremely bad before they play him. When you are fighting relegation which is what I expect Coventry to be, you don't want your dm to make mistake.

Big disagre. The only way for him to restart his career is to play somewhere where he can play tons of minutes. This is also true pre doping. His biggest improvement came under Poch because poch gave him plenty of good minutes. He was still very bad because you could see his improvement.

Nah you need to send Essugo outside PL. He won't play any minutes for Coventry

Honestly, from football pov, this is a no brainer decision

If you are talkin about shot stopping, Sanchez is equally good. Arsenal defensively is very good because they have 0 passenger and they play with 4 cb.

The last 3 seasons 89,74 (done after Jan as they focused on cl), 85 they are legit good.

Arse won it with Raya and I don't think he is that good.

This. If you want American sport style rule then you need something like super league.

Not sure Azpi comparison make sense as Azpi was quick. Palestra is just very stiff, I thought this is just pre season thing so I youtube his highlight and it is the same thing. He is fine, it is jus not what I expected

Yes he is a willing runner. I can see him do well as inverted attacking fb. Defensively it is a concern as he is quite slow when he need to change direction.

Palestra is a very strange player. Very wb, he is fast but not quick. And for a rwb, he prefer his left foot

Then next season will be very fun

This is from 2 seasons ago.