Chelsea 1-2 Real Madrid

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

18 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

Actually Maresca's system is heavily focused on man marking...

Interesting. Man marking requires more  1vs1 skill from the individual defender but often a bit less tactical organisation between defenders. But apparently  he hasn’t brought pep’s defensive playbook. I was always impressed how he made ok defenders like ake, akanji step up significantly. But I doubt even he could do anything with badi, disasi, wreckley fofana. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

Maresca's system is focused on man v man pressing, not man marking?

[cosmicway 1,333]

1 hour ago, Mhsc said:

Actually Maresca's system is heavily focused on man marking...

Is it ?
They watch them from a fair distance.
 

[OneMoSalah 8,793]

3 hours ago, Mhsc said:

Was your mind made up on Maresca before he even took the job? Kind of feels like no matter what he says or does you would be annoyed? I agree with everything he said tbh, I don't think he is making excuses, just answering questions when put to him in a pretty straight forward and honest way. Also don't disagree he'll probably be sacked in <2 years, probably ~1, he seems like a nice man so I hope it works out with him but obviously history teaches us that it is unlikely at Chelsea.

Personally I like that we've moved to playing positional football. Whether Maresca is up to the scale of the job I wont even start to judge until he's had at least a few competitive games, and even then really don't think it makes sense to judge too much until the new year.

Everyone is pissed off but its not his fault that the club has repeatedly sacked managers, spent a tonne of money and a lot of it quite badly, and failed to tackle some simple fundamentals.

Also I don't really care what happens in the Inter game, why do you? I usually only watch them to get an eye on some of the young players that might come through in the future, like Guiu, or when we have a new manager to have a look at how he might be setting them up - which turned out to be pointless last year as Poch played one system in preseason and then abandoned it as soon as the league started.

They are training games, essentially an open televised training session. It is well known good or bad preseasons have no correlation with results in the actual season. I don't really care what the result is vs Inter as long as no one gets injured and we get fitness into the legs of those who are a bit behind and we want fit for City.

I think what he is saying and the impression I had before about it being too risky/early for him getting a job of this magnitude is looking like it is going hand in hand. Maybe he is not directly using these things as excuses but also seems like he is making a big point still.

Fully agree it isn’t on him re the club spending, selling, sacking, direction they have gone etc, absolutely. He has taken the the job though and talking about tours, travelling, scheduling etc which he should know from his time being on the coaching staff at City, most modern day clubs of a certain scale participate and have these issues. 

Inter may only be pre-season but with the PL games kicking off just round the corner, these last couple of games a few good results merited by good performances would of given us a bit of momentum too. A bad result though means 1 win v Club America and a draw v Wrexham. Irrespective of if its for match rhythm/fitness/trying things out - these sort of results and particularly defensive performances, won’t necessarily help this group or the manager.

[Special Juan 27,444]

If we lose to Inter the mental affect going into the City will game will be huge.

We need to start producing now, the fun and games is over, it's time to roll them sleeves up and be fucking counted

 

[NikkiCFC 8,062]

5 hours ago, Mhsc said:

 

Also in the press conf the other day he mentioned how due to the insane schedule travelling to/around the US and playing every 2 days that the only real training they've done is the 2 weeks before the tour with some players, since then mostly they've just had time for little video sessions to talk about ideas and not actually practice them on the pitch and so it is not really possible to improve the problems until they get back for the ~10 days they've got in Cobham before the first real game.

@OneMoSalah is right. I hate this pathetic victim mentality. First of all games were every 3 days not 2 which is normal in European football also. And only first game was on West coast, after that every flight was hour, hour and a half max in private plane. They could go to training session directly from airport. If he was giving them off for one hour flight that is another red flag. Plus using 20 players in a game, they shouldn't be tired. They should have training sessions every day in USA regardless games, flights. It's what pre season is for.

[cosmicway 1,333]

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