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LostMyZeal:
lool...thank God some people in this thread are starting to see the doom wey dey ahead, if we continue with our ONLY legend...just imagine what Lucien Favre of Dortmund can do with this team...no excuses abeg...nobody should expect OLE to give what he does not have sha...cos even if Sancho and Graelish comes in, it will still be that boring and annoying display..thats it

Prectega:
Just see Liverpool fast plays and 1 2 football

Matic and Pogba own na to dance like Masquerade

Expert17:
I wouldn't mind we lose to Liecester city on the final day of the season and Wolves beat Chelsea .......

larride:
See help wey Liverpool Dey help us but this useless team can’t help themselves.

I can’t count the number of times teams has helped us to beat those in front of us and yet 5th.


Thunder fire all of them.

BARAJ92:
Please don't compare a team that has rested for seven days, This is the fourth game in 10 days, that is a very big difference.

KingAlabi:
And if we played Fred and Mctominay and lost?
What will you have said then.

Expert17:
Kaaiiiii

Kepa small for post ooo

Make Chelsea convert am to Right back

BARAJ92:
Relax, It is not easy playing every three days, which team during this lockdown period has not lost a match.

Leyqute:
Okay. We shall see.

Tundexi:
OGS carry gas for head come dey smoke cigarette

Oluwa ma help e o

elampiro:
Pogba and Matic are not fast to begin with. They will always have problems with teams that are able to play with pace and confidence. Currently, Fred and McTominay are low in confidence having fallen behind in the selection list. May be we should play diamond midfield against Leicester.

afrodoc2:
You are right that Pogba and Matic will struggle against quick midfielders but there is not much pace in that West Ham midfield. From around 60 minutes Pogba and Matic started walking towards the men they were supposed to mark. You can't have 2 tired chronic joggers in your midfield.

Also when the front 3-4 pressed the ball Matic and Pogba sat back, leaving wide gaps between them and the forwards and thereby allowing West Ham to beat the trap easily.

That you are slow does not mean you can't also get tired. Matic and Pogba are exhausted. The best bet against Leicester is for Ole to play McTom/Fred combo or McTom/Pogba combo behind Bruno. Leicester has quicker midfielders and attackers than West Ham so this Matic/Pogba combo will not work.

elampiro:
Pogba and Matic are not fast to begin with. They will always have problems with teams that are able to play with pace and confidence. Currently, Fred and McTominay are low in confidence having fallen behind in the selection list. May be we should play diamond midfield against Leicester.

Nezzjnr:
You can't fault OGS

If he remove the so called boys.... Who does he wanna put

Is it Lana1 favourite players.... Perreira and Lingard

afrodoc2:
Fred and McTominay have played well against even better opposition than West Ham. It was painful to see Matic and Pogba struggling physically to cover ground at the end of this last game. Those 2 should have been taken out to preserve a few calories for Leicester.


Ighalo could have, and should have gotten more minutes against West Ham and Chelsea.

We don't have the quality of defenders or even the luxury to be playing out from the back against high quality sustained presses. In the Southampton game especially it was tactically inept to continue trying something that was obviously not working. He should have changed tactics and used the long ball on occasion even if it required bringing Odion Ighalo in early in the 2nd half.

Starting Rashford and James in attack against Chelsea was madness. Neither has good linkup play in central areas and both are off form.

Ole tries to follow Sir Alex's blueprint but he lacks one of the gaffer's natural skills, which is knowing when to use or rest players .

afrodoc2:
Fred and McTominay have played well against even better opposition than West Ham. It was painful to see Matic and Pogba struggling physically to cover ground at the end of this last game. Those 2 should have been taken out to preserve a few calories for Leicester.


Ighalo could have, and should have gotten more minutes against West Ham and Chelsea.

We don't have the quality of defenders or even the luxury to be playing out from the back against high quality sustained presses. In the Southampton game especially it was tactically inept to continue trying something that was obviously not working. He should have changed tactics and used the long ball on occasion even if it required bringing Odion Ighalo in early in the 2nd half.

Starting Rashford and James in attack against Chelsea was madness. Neither has good linkup play in central areas and both are off form.

Ole tries to follow Sir Alex's blueprint but he lacks one of the gaffer's natural skills, which is knowing when to use or rest players.

nitrogen:
That's how dynamic the EPL is, when they realised that we've started dealing with teams that sit back (re: having Bruno and Pogba in the midfield), they changed to high press. Must we start from the back? Flexibility is key here, can we have Ighalo play upfront for some strength and stamina? also he could try to win headers. At least we dont just rely on passing from the back, we need flexibility, we cant be responding to every action by going out there to buy players, it won't work.

The fans and players should not be doing the thinking for the manager.

Shoot!

afrodoc2:
I don’t even know when this passing from the back by force craze started.

It seems the good results earlier deceived Ole into thinking his players were Brazil 1970 standard.

chic2pimp:
Na swear I go use destroy you if you disturb my mentions next season

Nezzjnr:
He needs to work on this aspect as a coach

His subs are wrong

He doesn't know when to rotate a team


The call for his sack here is uncalled for in my opinion.... It's just too early

elampiro:
Passing from the back with lots of risky play between DDG and defenders in our box area.

larride:
Man Utd this season is the definition of raising your hopes and then dashing it again to raise it again. Rinse and repeat.


It’s the hope that kills.

afrodoc2:
I don’t even know when this passing from the back by force craze started.

It seems the good results earlier deceived Ole into thinking his players were Brazil 1970 standard.

eph12:
Just wondering why teams can press our keeper and defenders so high up the pitch, and the big men we have can't do same. We try to press but the gap in midfield allow opponents to easily beat the press.

The OGS we have seen will stick with this same team on Sunday. Only wolves can help us like this

KingTom:
We don dey call for the sack since last year. I do not think that's early

Panther7:
we have been passing from the back since the beginning of the season, it just became more obvious because we don't play counter attacks like before.