You’d think those left out of the squad and on bench on Saturday would be busting a gut to prove Hughes wrong.
This malaise the club has been in for over 2 years is infectious.
My gripe is that we wasted an entire preseason on a formation that we only ended up using for 60 minutes. All a bit bizarre. It feels like when you are playing FM and can’t decide if your tactics/formation need changing or whether to ride out the storm for a bit.
He’s trying really hard though so I give him 7.5/10 even though his bite-rate has dropped to 0.12/posting. He’s past his prime but you can still coach inflammatory posting so he may get better.
The attacking play and transition seems much much better but the defence are a shambles. I like Hughsie but I can’t fathom why he wasted the whole preseason on a back 5/3. It’s like we’re having a second preseason now trying to get the back 4 drilled. Odd.
Hope he learns quick. Vestergaard had barreled forward and no one picked out his run into the box. Ings made 2 or 3 that would have been very dangerous had Moi fed him the ball.
Moi Elyanoussi worried me. His speed of thought seems really slow. Time and time again he had a wiling runner (at one point it was Vestergaard) and he failed to even attempt a very simple through ball.
Hopefully it was just this game and won’t be a problem with this guy.
I know it’s not a rule but we’d kicked it out for Lemina who was down. Leics took the throw in and didn’t give it back. Classless ****s, hate that team.