Anyone who says he has no tactical knowledge or a direction is dead wrong. He knows exactly what his tactics and direction are, the problem is most people are not a fan of it.
Anyone who says he has no tactical knowledge or a direction is dead wrong. He knows exactly what his tactics and direction are, the problem is most people are not a fan of it.
My biggest gripe with him is his lack of tactical flexibility. Does that mean he has a lack of knowledge? I'm not entirely sure at the moment, Winter never budged from his 4-3-3 does that mean he was dumb too? Even the best managers in the world do not use the same formation every game, it seems like teams adjust to us fairly easily while we continue to struggle to exploit bad teams like Montreal.Originally Posted by Canary10
Gilberto is a perfect example, a striker who is jinxed at the moment but has the skill set to play another position like AM or CF should be moved around, not trotted out doing the same thing.
Last edited by Richard; 05-29-2014 at 09:21 AM.
So what? Last night you move Gilberto into an AM role....who then is he feeding? Andrew Weideman or Dero? Or do you then have to trot out Defo as a lone striker because the two non-DP guys I just mentioned are not reliable enough to score?
You can't look at Gilberto alone and assume moving him somewhere else on the pitch is the answer to the problem.
It opens up other problems around the pitch.
This is what it is. With past managers including Winter you could say this because if you went to a "B" squad or brought in newer players they were lost. Same with Mariner. Whether it was having no tactical plan (Mariner) or not being able to properly instruct the players on how to carry out the game plan (Winter), you could see that players were lost and that lead to poor shapes and a massive goals against every year. Now when we get new players, bench guys, or academy kids they all know where to be and what to do. That is having a tactical plan and you can see that players are buying into it. Whether it's because the plan is simple or whether it will change when we settle remains to be seen but we do have tactics as Canary said. Just not the tactics some folks want. After many seasons of giving up boat loads of goals against and being rooted to the basement of MLS, I will take this approach for now and the points that come with it.
Of course, if Gilberto's strike rate was even moderately decent we'd be having a different chat right now.
It would be nice if the media would question him more on this. He's getting a bit of a free ride from them right now and fans don't have a chance to question him after every game.
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