Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
You've made a substitution and as a consequence big gaps are appearing in the middle and down your left. You can see this, so can all the fans. There's 15 minutes left of play and the opposition are exploiting this and consistently have a man over on the overlap. Do you
a) get up out of your seat in the dug-out and adjust the players' positions as necessary, getting them back into a cohesive unit
or
b) carry on sitting there and moaning about the lack of shape to your assistant?
This for me is the biggest puzzler with Hyypia. We can blame the players for howlers, mistakes and suchlike but surely the manager needs to command his team and fine tune as necessary. It's not a once only decision when you pick your formation, the game's fluid, the opposition can change tactics so the manager needs to anticipate, react etc etc. I'm not talking about OTT Poyet/Di Canio type histrionics, just once in a while letting the team know what you want from them. I've never known a manager of any team show so little reaction to what's going on in the game. If we were winning 5-0 every game then I could understand it but clearly we're not. The impression it gives is that he's out of his depth.
Has there been another manager like it?
a) get up out of your seat in the dug-out and adjust the players' positions as necessary, getting them back into a cohesive unit
or
b) carry on sitting there and moaning about the lack of shape to your assistant?
This for me is the biggest puzzler with Hyypia. We can blame the players for howlers, mistakes and suchlike but surely the manager needs to command his team and fine tune as necessary. It's not a once only decision when you pick your formation, the game's fluid, the opposition can change tactics so the manager needs to anticipate, react etc etc. I'm not talking about OTT Poyet/Di Canio type histrionics, just once in a while letting the team know what you want from them. I've never known a manager of any team show so little reaction to what's going on in the game. If we were winning 5-0 every game then I could understand it but clearly we're not. The impression it gives is that he's out of his depth.
Has there been another manager like it?