Enzo Maresca Thread

[Laylabelle 9,396]

1 minute ago, Milan said:

Losing the plot here. His HT talks must be something.

And whatever he is saying...can he not cause clearly it isn't working! 

[DH1988 1,324]

He may become the victim of telling the owners/directors he doesn't need signings etc the trouble is that we were second in the league at that point, everything was fine and over achieving. If he doesn't qualify for CL I think he goes.

[robsblubot 3,552]

I guess all that patience... the build for the future... 😆

There is absolutely NOTHING surprising about a new manager with a new system and a bunch of young players struggling a bit around jan -- some not nearly as good as suggested around here.

Edited Tuesday at 22:05 by robsblubot

[Special Juan 27,478]

His substitutions and in game management is baffling

[robsblubot 3,552]

3 hours ago, Special Juan said:

His substitutions and in game management is baffling

So, the “decisions” of a young inexperienced manager match the decisions of his young inexperienced squad?

The surprising part here is that we seem surprised by the fact that the team is struggling now. We discussed this a lot before and after Maresca was hired.

[Blue Armour 4,324]

I wish he would go back to rotating his squad a bit more, esp. with the attackers., not necessarily the defense.

When he did that in the early part of the season, it felt like everyone was chipping in with goals and challenging for places.

On the flip side, he has chopped and changed the back line with every game, ever since Fofana got injured.

For a top side, you would rarely want to see your back 4 change drastically each game, unless there were superior defenders being brought into the lineup. 

 

Edited yesterday at 04:25 by Blue Armour

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2 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

I wish he would go back to rotating his squad a bit more, esp. with the attackers., not necessarily the defense.

When he did that in the early part of the season, it felt like everyone was chipping in with goals and challenging for places.

On the flip side, he has chopped and changed the back line with every game, ever since Fofana got injured.

For a top side, you would rarely want to see your back 4 change drastically each game, unless there were superior defenders being brought into the lineup. 

 

 

Yep, this is a big issue. The lack of rotation in recent games.

It was always difficult to maintain the motivation of 25-30 players. Need to refresh the squad again. 

[NikkiCFC 8,064]

You can see him pointing out on Christie before second goal but amateur defending all over. I don't blame Josh at all for second goal. It's midfielders to blame. 

[Fernando 6,496]

People are really fickle. 

All the good work are throwing out after one month. 

For me he is still good and will get better next season. I was actually surprised at the beginning of the season because of the performance, since I expected us to be the team we are playing recently. 

That is the normal for this first season. But I seen good stuff that in next season we take a big step forward.

Summer should address better targets in our team then in January. And with continuity of a manager we can build the team better this summer. 

[Vesper 29,123]

10 hours ago, Fernando said:

People are really fickle. 

All the good work are throwing out after one month. 

For me he is still good and will get better next season. I was actually surprised at the beginning of the season because of the performance, since I expected us to be the team we are playing recently. 

That is the normal for this first season. But I seen good stuff that in next season we take a big step forward.

Summer should address better targets in our team then in January. And with continuity of a manager we can build the team better this summer. 

he needs to be more agressive and EARLIER with his subs

[robsblubot 3,552]

11 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

You can see him pointing out on Christie before second goal but amateur defending all over. I don't blame Josh at all for second goal. It's midfielders to blame. 

He was very poor. My rating of Colwill went up because of Josh (and Cucu).
Went to the ground way too early which allowed for the high shot to go on goal; should've blocked all the way from that angle... there was no need to commit.
He was getting out-muscled by Semenyo -- good chance we'd have lost the game had he stayed IMO.

Start him again against good teams and things will get ugly.

[robsblubot 3,552]

18 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

I wish he would go back to rotating his squad a bit more, esp. with the attackers., not necessarily the defense.

When he did that in the early part of the season, it felt like everyone was chipping in with goals and challenging for places.

On the flip side, he has chopped and changed the back line with every game, ever since Fofana got injured.

For a top side, you would rarely want to see your back 4 change drastically each game, unless there were superior defenders being brought into the lineup. 

 

Yup that is disappointing indeed. We finally have quality players on the bench and we see the same ones starting every match. Even Cole looks like could use a rest.

12 hours ago, Fernando said:

People are really fickle. 

All the good work are throwing out after one month. 

For me he is still good and will get better next season. I was actually surprised at the beginning of the season because of the performance, since I expected us to be the team we are playing recently. 

That is the normal for this first season. But I seen good stuff that in next season we take a big step forward.

Summer should address better targets in our team then in January. And with continuity of a manager we can build the team better this summer. 

Yup. The plan is what it is. We've discussed that a lot before and after Maresca was signed. Folks who are surprised now were simply wrong before. You cannot dominate this league with a young side.

On Maresca, I think he's learning that physicality in the PL is a much bigger factor than in Championship. Teams like Bournemouth favor physical and aggressive players who are specially tough (esp for younger players).

So, I was perplexed by Josh starting ahead of Tosin yesterday (no Tosin fan here), but we simply did not play well enough yesterday.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by robsblubot