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Originally Posted by VanHaaksbergen
Are you confused?
We've scored 70 league goals in 50 league games under Ten Hag.
Of the 17 teams who have played those 50, only 8 have scored less.
Brighton scored more last season alone than we have across both.
All football is a systems process. That's all it ever is. 11 components of a system. Occasionally you fall subject to variance (VAR; injuries etc.), but over time recognisable patterns form.
Hojlund's got 0 goals in 8 league games. Part of the pattern in our woeful attack. And yet, we all agree he has great qualities. So is the manager getting the most out of him in this system?
Garnacho taking the shot last night instead of the pass just typified why this attack has been flailing. We were lucky in that instance, as we're playing equivalent of a Championship or bottom-table team, and the keeper spilled it. But the poor decision making all remains as part of the bigger problem established over a long period of time.
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Nope, but having a go at a teenager for shooting rather than passing and then putting it on the manager is stupid. The younger players tend to make the wrong decisions more than the experienced .
The whole team has been marred with injuries (another one last night) and hasn’t been able to settle. Then there’s the Antony /greenwood/Sancho situation . We haven’t a settled team for a while now and it’s showing because we play disjointed shit on a Stick football. Obviously some players aren’t good enough, obviously ETH has made errors, but to come out and say garnacho should have passed to Højlund and it’s ETHs fault he didn’t is just short sighted
“All football is a systems process” you’ve just hit the nail on the head on why football is a bit shit these days. Not even going to bother getting into that.