Sarri But Not Sarri Thread

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

How many games already without a goal scored? This was supposed to be the offensive one.

Whether you like it or not, we played the most attacking football in 09/10 under Carlo and in Di Matteo's second season until he got sacked.

This coach is too rigid and obsessed with his style and formation, that stuborness might cost him in the end.

[Fulham Broadway 16,383]

1 minute ago, Bosnian Blue said:

How many games already without a goal scored? This was supposed to be the offensive one.

Whether you like it or not, we played the most attacking football in 09/10 under Carlo and in Di Matteo's second season until he got sacked.

This coach is too rigid and obsessed with his style and formation, that stuborness might cost him in the end.

The fag eaters clock is ticking

[Laylabelle 9,292]

Not really seeing this pretty or amazing football.. Just predictable. Pass pass pass.. Miss.. Or pass pass.. Oh shit they have the ball now. 

Annoying annoying. 

[DDA 9,570]

3 minutes ago, Bosnian Blue said:

How many games already without a goal scored? This was supposed to be the offensive one.

Whether you like it or not, we played the most attacking football in 09/10 under Carlo and in Di Matteo's second season until he got sacked.

This coach is too rigid and obsessed with his style and formation, that stuborness might cost him in the end.

The attack under Carlo was insane but I'm pretty sure if I recall, not every single bloody team we faced parked the bus like they do now. 

[Laylabelle 9,292]

2 minutes ago, DDA said:

The attack under Carlo was insane but I'm pretty sure if I recall, not every single bloody team we faced parked the bus like they do now. 

Good old days! Though when we have Morata missing nearly open goals as he has done they don't need to park the bus. 

It just seems to go nowhere. 

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

1 minute ago, Fulham Broadway said:

The fag eaters clock is ticking

Perhaps they should let him smoke one in the dugout mate, its affecting his thinking 

[blues.bridge 340]

Sarri has several limits: no tournover, no B plan when things go wrong!
But there are also other things, for example the team don't press high well like Napoli did, some players try to press: like hazard or kante, others don't! they press later or run away back like willian or barkley (they high press don't know what is it)! this is not good for team becouse there no union and we often are uncover!

[Fulham Broadway 16,383]

Just now, Bosnian Blue said:

Perhaps they should let him smoke one in the dugout mate, its affecting his thinking 

Yeah its discrimination -they obviously allow Willian and Alonso to share a bong

[kellzfresh 7,226]

LVG football these days

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, DDA said:

The attack under Carlo was insane but I'm pretty sure if I recall, not every single bloody team we faced parked the bus like they do now. 

Personally, think the talk of offensive football under Ancelotti has been greatly exaggerated by those 4 games in which we scored 7+ goals. And never mind Ancelotti, the football we played in the first half of 2014/15 and first season under Conte was much, much better than this.

[Vesper 27,281]

NO MORE NUMBER NINE

[DDA 9,570]

Just now, Jason said:

Personally, think the talk of offensive football under Ancelotti has been greatly exaggerated by those 4 games in which we scored 7+ goals. And never mind Ancelotti, the football we played in the first half of 2014/15 and first season under Conte was much, much better than this.

Anelka and Drogba.

If we had at least one of these two now, we wouldn't even be debating this. 

I personally love the way Sarri sets up. We play nice football. We need a striker man.

[Alabama 1,992]

Till he drops his wishy washy willian and Alonso...then I can take him serious of playing attacking football...

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Slight off topic, although not really, a little story popped into my head and it is about the 4-3-3, hence my reference to Sarri. 

So Romanian legend Popescu and Cruyff's!!!!! captain at Barcelona in the 90s said in a TV show when discussing about tactics that 4-3-3 is the most beautiful tactic, but the hardest to implement and if you don't have any patience than it's better to stick to other tactics because it is not going to work. Said 4-3-3 requires double the time on the training ground than other systems, it is so complex that even the best players forget the different patterns used! It's full of patterns and drills and triangulation and it does not work without clever midfielders. He said it's basically something that you work over and over again, day after day and still it takes even two years to come close to perfecting it. 

Think we must show some patience with Sarri and frankly what Popescu says here in this story I've just told you perfectly fits the curent City and Liverpool. It took Guardiola two seasons and Klopp three to bring them to this level. And those clubs were shifting from attacking football to attacking football, it was just the managers with new ideas, unlike Chelsea trying to transition from dull football to attacking one. 

[Fernando 6,374]

I think people have amnesia. 

Because the same people who are clamoring city and Liverpool fail to realize they was this dire in the first season. 

It's going to take time, you be obtuse to expect much of anything this season. 

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

17 minutes ago, Fernando said:

I think people have amnesia. 

Because the same people who are clamoring city and Liverpool fail to realize they was this dire in the first season. 

It's going to take time, you be obtuse to expect much of anything this season. 

Actually City was very good offensively under Guardiola in his first season, creating loads of chances but they struggled defensively with poor full-backs and centre-backs. Same with Liverpool and Klopp. We are absolutely toothless upfront, it looks more like Van Gaal's United rather than anything resembling Klopp or Guardiola.

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5 minutes ago, Bosnian Blue said:

Actually City was very good offensively under Guardiola in his first season, creating loads of chances but they struggled defensively with poor full-backs and centre-backs. Same with Liverpool and Klopp. We are absolutely toothless upfront, it looks more like Van Gaal's United rather than anything resembling Klopp or Guardiola.

 

Think you need to recall the beginning of the season.  Back then we were scoring pretty well and opening teams up we just were getting opened up almost as easily.  This was a problem and now we are much more solid defensively but now we are having issues with scoring.  It's going to take time, period.

[OneMoSalah 8,609]

6 minutes ago, Bosnian Blue said:

Actually City was very good offensively under Guardiola in his first season, creating loads of chances but they struggled defensively with poor full-backs and centre-backs. Same with Liverpool and Klopp. We are absolutely toothless upfront, it looks more like Van Gaal's United rather than anything resembling Klopp or Guardiola.

Yes very good offensively, poor defensively but you can't outscore your opponent every match. Rodgers learned that at Liverpool, AVB learned that here, Pep learned it in year one... defensively we have improved under Sarri. We have the foundations just lack a few players in offensive positions to create chances.