Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff View Post
It has EVERYTHING to do with tactics.

How many long balls did you see Fulham play? How much possession football did you see us play by passing and moving?

I don’t think that their players are necessarily better than ours, but they have been coached on the basics of football: pass, move, pass,
move, keep the ball, make the other team work to gain possession, not play endless long balls where the chances of maintaining possession are dramatically less.

Who plays like that these days apart from us?

It is EVERYTHING to do with tactics.

If Fulham, Swansea and Brentford can do it, then why can’t our players? Because we have a manager that want to play another way.
Their players are clearly better than ours. They won all the individual battles this evening.