by Greatwesternline »
27 Apr 2021 09:22
To anyone saying we dont have proper wingers, we have coaches who could presumably coach players into being wingers.
Aluko is capable of running down the wing and crossing, as should be Olise. Ejaria is capable of doing it. You work with the players you've got.
You tell them what to do in a game, and if they dont do it, you drop them, explain why you've done it, and play someone who will follow your instructions.
The fact that Ejaria stops running forwards everytime he has a one on one because he likes to take it inside and show he can try to out trick 2/3 people in a crowded space doesnt help a team much. it might be great in drills in training, or on a 5-a-side pitch, but on a big pitch with 10 outfield players you need to be able to make progress down said pitch.
Either Ejaria is uncoachable, in which case he's not actually a very good professional footballer, or the coaching staff arent good at coaching.
The season fell apart in two stages. When it first started to unfold we were playing well but dropping points, at times when we could have expected to be given some penalties.
In response to when it was going ok Pauno decided to break up the Laurent Rhino partnership. It took a few games for him to realise this was madness.
Then for a short amount of time this was fixed and we started picking up more points again, but then Joao started missing penalties.
Joao mentally was shot after missing two penalties, he should never have been offered a third chance to miss. Poor management. he scored some penalties through sheer luck, weak ones where the keeper got a hand to them. Weak management not to take him off pens.
Without those misses his confidence may have stayed high, and the season may have finished differently. But after that we werent playing well and occasionally picked up points.
I think the lack of minutes for Aluko was strange given how impotent we looked creatively for long periods of the last third of the season.
Having siad all this, if Swift had been fit i personally think we would have been in the hunt for automatic promotion. So, who knows.