Shaelumstash
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That’s the entire point though. He didn’t play 433 with a proper holding midfielder in any of the games against Tuchel last season, and he lost all 3.it made sense to anyone who listened to it.
He makes logical decisions. Not all of them pan out, sometimes they’re irrelevant (Gundogan playing vs Liverpool made no difference to the game), but the overwhelming majority of the time it helps us win.
This is what’s so frustrating, firstly the fact that 99/1000 he makes a change and it leads to a win but those 99 are ignored in the other game.
Secondly the prevailing sentiment that he’s just had some sort of ego rush and decided to make a change for the kick of it which is complete bollocks.
He makes these changes when it has been shown our plan A won’t work and we will likely lose again if we try it again.
And yet half the forum would rather he just played the same XI and lost in the same way.
He played novelty formations or novelty personnel out of position in all 3 games.
He may well have had explanations for all 3 selections, but all 3 times we got beat, so the book stops with him.
Everyone agrees he’s the best coach in the world, and we’re very lucky to have him. But he’s not divine, he’s capable of getting it wrong - and to think otherwise is just taking fandom / being star-struck too far for me