It sounds like we’ve done a lot of work on fitness to be honest. Before Lampard was hired, King talked up the work Dr Roberts was doing with regards to S&C and so on… Lampard comes in and says he’s disappointed with the fitness levels last season and mentioned we’d work on it this summer.
In fairness to Lampard too, he’s tweak a lot of tactics to make us a much more tactically fluid team. There’s no prescriptive idealistic style of play, we a lot of things v well. We can dominate possession when the situation requires but also go route one or hit teams on the counter.
No disrespect to Robins intended here, but we didn’t have this level of tactical depth when he was our manager.
Remember when Lampard was called tactically naive by some on here because they didn't understand you can't just implement the perfect tactic from game 1?It sounds like we’ve done a lot of work on fitness to be honest. Before Lampard was hired, King talked up the work Dr Roberts was doing with regards to S&C and so on… Lampard comes in and says he’s disappointed with the fitness levels last season and mentioned we’d work on it this summer.
In fairness to Lampard too, he’s tweak a lot of tactics to make us a much more tactically fluid team. There’s no prescriptive idealistic style of play, we a lot of things v well. We can dominate possession when the situation requires but also go route one or hit teams on the counter.
No disrespect to Robins intended here, but we didn’t have this level of tactical depth when he was our manager.
This.We're incredibly efficient with the ball.
You look at a lot of the possession stats and we're pretty middle of the road. Then you look at things like touches in the penalty area, crosses, shots and we are top, often by a big margin. It's that ability to move the ball forward quickly and convert it into a crossing or shooting chance that is making us so successful.
You know what, fair play for your damascene conversion on Lampard.Frank put that dog in them
You know what, fair play for your damascene conversion on Lampard.
I’m hoping we don’t get periodic ‘Taxi for Lampard’ threads whenever we lose the odd game.
I don’t think we’ll Cardiff it up. I’ll be v shocked if we bottle automatic promotion and probably wouldn’t ever recover from those scars.Nah man he’s proven me massively wrong and fair play to him. Like with robins or any manager with credit in the bank he’s earned himself time even if we did Cardiff it up this season.
SameI don’t think we’ll Cardiff it up. I’ll be v shocked if we bottle automatic promotion and probably wouldn’t ever recover from those scars.
Remember when Lampard was called tactically naive by some on here because they didn't understand you can't just implement the perfect tactic from game 1?
I love his seriousness around the training and interviews and the match. The only time he seems to let it go is at the endI’ve referenced this before, but that first 30 mins vs Cardiff (Lampard’s first game in charge) showed how he wanted us to play. We just didn’t have the fitness to do it. I really feared he would dogmatically stick to this style but the fact he was pragmatic, adapted our style and clearly prioritised fitness over the summer is the most positive sign of his management for me.
Refs normally are very clear that if there’s an advantage to give they will look to give itTwo goals were from a subsequent passage of play where our players refused to go down after being fouled. To me the opposition players slow up cos they think the foul will make the Referee stop the game! Where in if a player struggles but stays on his feet they ignore it and wave play on.
My point being the effect of staying up on the feet no matter how much of a struggle the opposition players mindset has been adjusted and they cannot react again! The player on Torpe could not get back onto Torpe to stop him again, same applies to Kitchen the player who tried to trip him could not recover cos he stayed on his feet. It's a bout mindset and conditioned playersRefs normally are very clear that if there’s an advantage to give they will look to give it
It sounds like we’ve done a lot of work on fitness to be honest. Before Lampard was hired, King talked up the work Dr Roberts was doing with regards to S&C and so on… Lampard comes in and says he’s disappointed with the fitness levels last season and mentioned we’d work on it this summer.
Yes, I said similar in a recent post. Personally I'm not to worried about the goals we have recently conceded because I think it's part of how we play. Throw players forward and goals will come, but we will also be likely to concede, our game plan is to score more than the opposition, simple as that.'Intensity' is what the pundits are saying that the City have. But what is it, and how did we get it? It can't just be fitness as all teams are fit. But we seem to be able to attack and defend in numbers, generally overpower the opposition and keep going. Along with most fans I would have settled for a draw on Tuesday after Conway's miss, but the City didn't, and having got ahead they didn't then sit back to defend the lead but went and scored another. What's going on?
We're certainly picking up more injuries aren't we?Re the first point, I suppose it comes down to the type of fitness we were building. Plausible that the fitness work pre-Lampard was more around durability, being able to get through a full 90, whereas clearly there's an expectation of intensity with the team now. Regardless, clearly we're fitter overall than we were, and I think the issues we faced with not being able to bring players off previously hampered long-term fitness which we are able to manage a lot better now.
More?We're certainly picking up more injuries aren't we?
We're incredibly efficient with the ball.
You look at a lot of the possession stats and we're pretty middle of the road. Then you look at things like touches in the penalty area, crosses, shots and we are top, often by a big margin. It's that ability to move the ball forward quickly and convert it into a crossing or shooting chance that is making us so successful.
He’s worked extremely hard along with his staff and knows he’s hit on a winning formula. You could tell that he saw the lack of squad depth in certain positions as the only thing that may derail the season; I agree with him on that and so do those who’ve analysed our performance.I love his seriousness around the training and interviews and the match. The only time he seems to let it go is at the end
I think he may be struggling to enjoy it as much as all of us.
Keep reliving torps run for the first goal just brilliant
Yeah the only thing that appears on the horizon is if Doug goes all SISU and doesn't find the means to support him in his project.He’s worked extremely hard along with his staff and knows he’s hit on a winning formula. You could tell that he saw the lack of squad depth in certain positions as the only thing that may derail the season; I agree with him on that and so do those who’ve analysed our performance.
Pulling this off is a huge thing for his managerial career and clearly he’s deeply invested in seeing it through.
I firmly expect quality additions in January to get us over the line.Yeah the only thing that appears on the horizon is if Doug goes all SISU and doesn't find the means to support him in his project.
Hold onto your horses!
I don’t think we are- we’ve scored more than expected.Do you know what the maddest thing is, we are slightly in efficient, stats wise, on a chance creation to goal’s ratio.
Normally in that circumstance you would say “when this team clicks in a game, they will score 3 or 4”
We do that anyway, haha - with us currently, it’s more of a case “if they click they will put 7, 7+ past someone” (again)
Frank put that dog in them
I saw something on fb a few weeks ago which said that we had the highest number of missed quality chances. Something like 79. If that is true (is anything on fb true?), and we had converted some, out GD would be even more incredible.I don’t think we are- we’ve scored more than expected.
With Xg and chance to goal creation we are in the top 1 & 2 but 5th in shots on target vs shots taken %. Even a slight improvement on that in certain games would mean we could be scoring more.I don’t think we are- we’ve scored more than expected.
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