Next I shall review the season so far.
Well, it started off brilliantly, all fans were in great expectation for the new campaign and had a lot of aspiration for Europe and maybe even pushing for the top four. The first match against Everton went well apart from the shaky defence and goalkeeper but it gave everybody a lot of confidence as we won with the last kick of the match.
Then came Hull, West Ham, and Arsenal. In all these matches we suffered from the same things. The most important of all being the giving away of the ball in the middle of the park and not being able to defend. Hull capitalised on a goalkeeping error, West Ham outplayed us and Arsenal showed us a footballing lesson. So one win, one draw and two losses turned a promising start into a worrying start.
Then came our last win for a while were we played absolutely wonderful in the first half and then hung onto the win in the second half against Newcastle. After that thing went downhill very fast. Three draws and five losses followed. Four of the eight teams included Bolton, Middlesbrough, West Brom, and Sunderland.
All of these teams we should be beating easily if we want to secure ourselves in the Premier League.
The other four games where Chelsea, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Tottenham. We should of at least got two or three points from these games but something is different from previous seasons where we have got points from these sort of teams. The main difference is that we do not fight for it, the ambition in the team seems to have disappeared completely.
The fight that we usually show against the so called “big” teams has gone and i don’t know whether we will ever get it back while Ince is manager as we seem to be getting worse and worse every week. As for the Portsmouth match, we were woeful in defence and not composed in front of goal.
The last point I have to make is, what is he doing with his team selection?
Why does he insist on changing to 4-5-1 when we go behind or even starting with the formation, especially when he is going to play Jason Roberts upfront on his own. This is a position he can not possible play because Jason Roberts is someone who you have in your team to hold up the ball and lay other players off like another strike partner which he doesn’t have in this formation.
Ince also plays players out of position like Steven Warnock and Carlos Villanueva. Playing Villanueva as a right winger is basically playing without a right winger as he is predominantly left footed and doesn’t get enough of the ball as most of out attacks unfortunately go down the left side to Pedersen. We also need to play Warnock at left back as he is the best one we have got and we have other suitable midfielders.
Finally, why does he play Mokoena at home, he is a player you play when you want some assurance in front of your defence when you know you are going to be on the back foot because all he can do is tackle. We simply can not play him against teams like Sunderland who we need to be attacking all match.
In summary, I believe that if things do not improve within the next month, we should seriously consider replacing Ince as manager as if it carries on we will find ourselves in a terrible position as we approach the second half of the season.
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