2018 - 2019 Football Thread - Page 33

On September 19 2018 05:24 Pr0wler wrote:
Cakir missed yellow card for Sturridge, at the very least, for hitting the goalkeeper with the studs. Some refs will give straight red for that, not without reason.

On September 19 2018 07:56 sharkie wrote:
Favre keeps getting lucky goals that save him his trainer position. Thw team looks completely clueless going forward and still he refuses to use Kagawa. He even gave gotze a starting spot lol

On September 19 2018 10:19 nayumi wrote:
Poch must be frustrated. He's defending his players well, and decision not buying over the summer. But he must be blind if he doesn't realise his team lacks the depth required to pursue anything more than what they achieved in the past years.

On September 19 2018 07:56 sharkie wrote:
Favre keeps getting lucky goals that save him his trainer position. Thw team looks completely clueless going forward and still he refuses to use Kagawa. He even gave gotze a starting spot lol

On September 19 2018 16:53 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah i can see Tuchel gone soon, that champions league group is very hard and it is quite clear the job the PSG owners want is someone to WIN the champions league.

Mourinho, Conte and Zidane are "available" options to replace him very quickly, Mourinho not yet of course but will be soon enough

On September 19 2018 21:00 Pandemona wrote:
When you play DiMaria in a midfield 3 though you are asking for trouble. Signing the likes of Choupo-Moting guy from Stoke on a free when you CLEARLY need a defensive midfielder. Tuchel could have taken the likes of Kramer or Bender from Bundesliga and done the job he needed perfectly. Then the 3 man midfield of Bender/Kramer + Rabiot + Verrati looks decent on paper no?

You can excuse their bad defending a bit due to missing their left back and without Marqinhos at the back due to midfield injuries i assume? Without Buffon in goal isn't an excuse though as Areola is decent imo.

If i went into PSG though first thing you have to do is sell one of; Mbappe/Neymar/Cavani/DiMaria as all those 4 cannot be kept happy on the pitch at same time. I would always push to getting rid of DiMaria, then you have Draxler as backup for one winger spot etc.

When PSG get a manager like Mourinho/Conte/Zidane you will see a transformation in terms of squad and style, maybe not so much if Zidane took the job but at least he would get the right players in that midfield. Still i cannot believe they sold Matuidi...imagine him last night vs Scouse!

On September 19 2018 21:56 Pandemona wrote:
Ahh right i thought Tuchel went in with full power as that was reason he left Dortmund i thought was because he didn't get full power of transfer market. Why do clubs hire people in these sporting director roles or give powers of football transfers to people who do not understand the game or what is needed.

How can anyone at PSG not understand they need a midfielder or even two? How is it ok to play Di Maria in a 3 man midfield and Marquinhos as a Holding midfielder?

For Paris Saint-Germain, there has been no development. The lessons of last season have not been learned. All the flaws that undid PSG against Real Madrid in last season’s last 16 were there again at Anfield on Tuesday. Leaving three forwards high up the pitch to float about and occasionally pull off a trick may be enough in Ligue 1 – given PSG have begun the season with five straight wins and have scored at least three goals in every game, it demonstrably is – but it is no way to play against proper opposition. The Air Jordan branding may be intended to add an extra shot of glamour, but in context it appears to say little more than, “please nutmeg me while I appeal half-heartedly for offside.”

There is an irony to this, of course, that PSG’s domination of the French league is precisely what prevents them being truly competitive in Europe. This is the great paradox of the financial structures of the modern game and it one of the factors that will probably lead, sooner rather than later, to some sort of pan-national super-league. When there is no challenge, it’s only natural complacency sets in. When there are no predators at home, why would you flee the red-faced men with sticks and guns? When there is no peril in your league, why would you bother to track Trent Alexander-Arnold?

Is Thomas Tuchel happy with this? This, after all, is a man who grew up in the hard-pressing world of the Bundesliga. He was regarded as the new Jürgen Klopp, a manager forged at a similar school. He is somebody who dined with Pep Guardiola after his Dortmund side had lost 5-1 to Bayern, whose love of the theory of juego de posición outweighed the sting of defeat. There can be no version of that conception of the game that features three men standing 50 yards upfield from their midfield, barely raising a jog as a defender surges past them again. PSG football is not Tuchel football; it may not even be football.