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But again, what would you rather us do? press them high and get wide, try and dominate possesion? That's how you get killed against them.

We made the most of our pieces. That's what you want from...

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Couldn't remember off the top of my head.

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But the job of the two wingers isn't to hold up the ball in this scenario. It's to get past the fullback in space and be direct. They couldn't for most of the game because the fullbacks didn't...

but they couldn't move Sam and Grella into the middle and push Lawrence and Lade(?) forward because we kept Lovitz and Endoh high and wide. We were constantly pressured into giving up the ball...

But the whole bend don't brake thing is a tactic, and one that continues to work particularly well for us against NYRB. We had 5 shots on target to their 1. Us sitting back and allowing them only...

How did We not win the tactical battle yesterday?

but that's besides the point I was making. I was saying that A) bradley doesn't play like a 300k player, he's significantly better than that. and B) was that we could spend Bradley's money on someone...

on your first point: no, that's not how football works. tactics play a much bigger part than you are letting on.

And Bradley frequently did dominate as AM in the diamond, he just wasn't the...

But he's actually not pressuring CB's. he frequently pressurues DM's and the occasional FB when he's really felling himself. And what would compliment him is a stay at home DM with a modicum of...

doyle said that Johnson doesn't fix the problem we have in the balance of our midfield, which might or might not be true, we have to wait and see. That's not dependent of Bradley. It's not his fault...

when in fact you will find no one who covers the game on this side of the pond who would agree with any of that, because it's really not true. Bradley has a skill set that's unmatched for his...

Brdley was hands down one of the best 10-15 players in the league this season. he's not the problem.

if Vanney was as good as guardiola he wouldn't be here.

but bradley doesn't dictate to vanney how he's going to play. I don't think there's debate over whether Vanney is getting the most available out of bradley given the qualities and attributes of the...

Give him another half-season with an actual backline and defensive midfielder and we'll see.

I think that was mostly down to needing to move Osorio to the AM position, and that it was useful to use a speed option on the left because Connor Lade is as slow as molasses. Regardless it worked...

Trust me, I know.

I don't know how many times I have to say this: Nelsen's team had won 3 of their last 13 games. Vanney would have had to have performed a miracle to take that team, a team so worn down and...

It's not in any players "DNA" to like conceding goals.

you can't play this game in a vacuum. you need players to get you the ball in the right positions, and you're coach to help you put a team out that will play to your strengths. Vanney's done a very...

Vanney's tactics are part of the reason Giovinco has thrived all season. He's also not the type of guy to try and assert himself over the club like that. Let's stop trying to create controversy.

why wouldn't they be good? He hasn't had a proper backline together all season, and has had to constantly change tactics to make up for the shortcomings of his roster. This team isn't a finished...

L.A. had a horrid two month stretch earlier in the year without keane and Seattle lost 7 of 8 straight without Martins. They're no different than us without their DP's.

Findley had a good game though, to be fair. A 4-3-3 going forward with Altidore in the middle and a midfield of Bradley - Cheyrou - Warner/Osorio wouldn't be bad going forward.

This was the state of Nelsen's team by the end of his tenure:

a) We weren't really playing with any tactics to speak of
B) Not a single player was playing up to their actual talent
C) he had...