A lot of fans were basically begging us to play a team like this while Southgate was still in charge. Tonight has shown why it would never have worked.
Whoever the manager is they need to realise that Foden and Bellingham simply cannot play together.
They did advertise for the assistant mangers job before announcing about a week later that they were going to go with the current set up instead. Hard to know if that was a genuine advertisement or not tbf.
The prevailing view on Sheaf his first season was definitely negative. Read the replies and quote tweets on his announcement tweet.
Plus plenty of tweets like this that summer/end of the 20/21 season.
Thought their segment was quite poor to be honest. They don’t seem to have actually watched us much and based a lot of their analysis on ‘Simms and Wright aren’t converting their chances and that’s the main issue’ and an idea that the performances hadn’t been that bad because the underlying...
A point at home against a Sheffield Wednesday side who’d picked up 1 point in their previous 4 away games and barely scored a goal would have also been a bad result. They are not a good side, despite us somehow making them look like one.
Fun fact: We’ve lost as many home games this season in 5 games as Ipswich and Leeds did in total last season combined.
No team finished in the play-offs last season losing more than 5 home games.