I am as impressed by Pellegrini’s ability to change what was clearly so very wrong early doors (Noble/Wilshere as DMs) as I am still baffled by what led him to make those decisions in the first place.
That said, he’s hoiked Rice (Liverpool) and dropped Noble, quite ruthlessly in both cases, and yet here we are a few weeks later with those very same two players rejigged, revitalized and an integral part of our improvement.
Morocco Mole wrote:I am as impressed by Pellegrini’s ability to change what was clearly so very wrong early doors (Noble/Wilshere as DMs) as I am still baffled by what led him to make those decisions in the first place.
That said, he’s hoiked Rice (Liverpool) and dropped Noble, quite ruthlessly in both cases, and yet here we are a few weeks later with those very same two players rejigged, revitalized and an integral part of our improvement.
lets not get too ahead of ourselves we are still 4th bottom but improving. Saturday provides us another big test, win that and we are back. lose and we will be bottom 3 again.
he needs to sort our fullbacks out and get the front 3 working properly with regards to tracking back and converting chances.
he also needs to get gsb to give rice a decent new contract.
he has sorted a lot though and after 6 games we have
1. a good GK
2. two decent CBs who are getting better each game
3. central midfield looks so much better since the switch to three
4. Anderson starting to become more involved. needs a really good game for lift off I feel. man utd game perfect opportunity
5. yarmolenko playing better and looking fitter
6. Antonio lasting longer than 20 mins a match
hammerman11 wrote:lets not get too ahead of ourselves we are still 4th bottom but improving. Saturday provides us another big test, win that and we are back. lose and we will be bottom 3 again.
Same boat, starting to feel positive, but still early doors.
To be fair, was not overly worried at the first few games as I always believed that such a massive overhaul of the squad would pay poor results to begin with.
8-0 with a second string and successfully blooding some academy youngsters
And in a game we’d have easily struggled in under Fat Sam or Moyes
Doesn’t matter it was Macclesfield, a performance like that, ruthless putting your opponents to the sword comes from the attitude instilled by the manager
Well done MP
Onwards and upwards
A win on Saturday and the naysayers after 4 league defeats will be a distant memory
He’s achieved something better than any manager since 1983. That’s certainly worth applauding. I think the team and squad have embraced his philosophy - big result against someone like Man U and I think we might really start playing with some belief and swagger.
Starting to believe he will be around beyond Christmas... and very pleased about it too.
Although I didn't see the match, I have seen far too many where we have gone a couple of goals in front and then sat back to try and see the game out. That seems to have changed now and it also seemed to me that we were still taking the game to Everton, as well, even when we were in front (at least until the last few minutes). Hopefully, this trend will continue.
Can’t overstate how good seven points from our last three fixtures have been. Throw in the 8-0 as well and looking like things are coming together very nicely.
