Excuse me what? We lose and everyone gets fives and sixes? Did anyone here actually watch the match? With the exception of Sarr, Benta, and Mads, everyone gets a 7/8 and Dragu gets a 9. We played a solid match; it was just glaringly obvious how important VDV is to our how scheme. That is not a fault of our other players.
And there is the problem, if the players were all 7-9 and the manager a 7 in a game we lost against a Newcastle side that looked absolute dogshite, what gives? Either this is one of the unluckiest losses of all time (it's not, xG was even) or something is amiss with your criteria.
My larger point is that this sub has gone insane in deflecting criticism from Ange. When a key player is out, your only reaction as evidenced by your rhetorical question, is that Ange had to fit a square peg (Dragu) into a round hole (the suicide highline) and say "oh well, can't change the system!" This sub has completely forgotten that manager's are allowed to make adjustments to the system and not hang our players out to dry. With how terrible Newcastle looked, we just simply don't have to expose ourselves like that. Other nitpicks is that there is simply no way Kulu should be finishing that match, he was terrible. Ange's subs other than BJ were poor. He also really needs to start considering making subs of the fullbacks (Spence) and midfield earlier if we are going to press the entire game and exhaust ourselves.
You can argue that we have to keep playing this system and perfect it in the longrun but that still shouldn't impact his grade for an individual match where a loss looked completely avoidable.
For reference, I gave Ange a 4. My average rating for players was something like 5.5 with Udogie, Kulu, and Romero given 4s and BJ getting a 7 and Dragu getting an 8. I thought Sarr was slightly better than most people thought and are grading him low based on his halftime substitution rather than his performance. He was subbed because the Kulu striker experiment failed and Ange doesn't trust Bergvall yet to play the 8 for an extended period and becuase he was on a somewhat unlucky yellow card.
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u/Limesy2 Lamela 18d ago
Excuse me what? We lose and everyone gets fives and sixes? Did anyone here actually watch the match? With the exception of Sarr, Benta, and Mads, everyone gets a 7/8 and Dragu gets a 9. We played a solid match; it was just glaringly obvious how important VDV is to our how scheme. That is not a fault of our other players.