Giggs is going through what Tosack had to, that is playing inexperienced youngsters.
Giggs isn't my favorite person, but give him a bit of leeway people !!!!!!
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Giggs is going through what Tosack had to, that is playing inexperienced youngsters.
Giggs isn't my favorite person, but give him a bit of leeway people !!!!!!
Agreed that there is much more urgency in midfield when Jonny Williams plays. I saw the game on my phone so difficult to analyse but scoring goals against any team is going to be a problem playing like that.
Hopefully it is only the familiarity of playing against the same old Irish team that prevents us from playing a more expansive game. They know how to nullify us and by and large the opposite is true.
It was noticeable however how statuesque some of our players were at times. Little or no effort was made to shake off their markers to find space, so we became more predictable as the game wore on.
Having said that, a fully fit Bale, Ramsey and Allen would obviously make a massive difference and give the opposition a lot more to think about.
I'd like to see Brooks playing as a 10, with Ramsey and Allen behind, and Bale on the right.
I'd try this team out..
Hennessy
Mepham - Ampadu - Rodon
Williams - Allan - Ramsey - Davies
Bale - HRK - Brooks
It doesn't help that we were told the England game didn't matter as it was all about the Nation's League....
The Nation's League has been used by Giggs as an opportunity to build up young players cap count and this game was successful again in doing that but, Ireland at home aside, has rarely produced exciting fixtures for us. It's very difficult to know how to judge Giggs really as we know Wales are at least 10x the side in front of a home crowd, and we did qualify for the Euros, but I would also say only three or four games have been a complete or near complete performance.
I would leave it on two points:
i) Giggs appears to have taken a lot of influence from Van Gaal and the more you learn about his system the easier it is to understand what we're trying to do.
ii) Giggs will ultimately be judged based on our performance at the Euros and whether we qualify for the World Cup. If we do well and qualify then he's used the Nation's league to perfection, even if it's been dull at times, but if we don't then we'll be left wondering why we've missed our targets and shown more frustrating performances than exciting ones.
Finland 2 Bulgaria 0 - swings and roundabouts really, Finland are close to us and could well be above us by Wednesday, but on the other hand, Bulgaria were comfortably beaten at home by Hungary in midweek and now this defeat, I think that's one win in eighteen now for them.