One of our attacks in the first half around 30 mins, Foden was just outside the D and had only one defender in his path into the box, he delayed, looked around, retreated and played a simple ball side ways to Gundo or Kova. In that moment I had a flashback to Foden as a kid, as a teenager running directly at defenders, committing them and frequently leaving them for dead, ie openening up the opponents defence and generally causing mayhem. Every ounce of direct, risk based forward running has been coached out of him in order to maintain possession at all costs. When Grealish or Doku or Savinho are in attacking positions around the box we never seem to have an overload anymore because the full backs must be banned from overloading as we're so shit scared of transitions. These are just two straightforward tactical tweeks that could work. Just simple changes but may stop the ponderdous, predictable sideways backwards sideways etc. If we lose to Everton and Leicester he may walk. The parallels with Wegner's demise are astounding, literally everyone but the man himself can see what's wrong. He is our greatest ever coach, but nothing lasts forever, he knows that more than anyone. Injuries, schedules, 115, poor transfers etc have not helped him but this run has now become unacceptable.
