This season I’m beginning to wonder if, in the 55 years I’ve played and watched football, I’ve had the wrong end of the stick.
Don’t get me wrong, every player on the pitch at any one time works hard. But without direction on the training field, the team will never play as a co-ordinated force.
Too many games with 75% of possession end with us dropping points.
There is no shape to the team. Too often players run into another player’s space, causing congestion with large areas of the pitch left unattended where the opposition can exploit it.
When a long ball finally gets knocked forward, invariably one man chases it, normally Leonardo Ulloa.
The rest just jog forward as if no one cares if he gets the ball or not.
Will Buckley never gets balls down the “channels” to run on to the ball behind the defender. At times he stands isolated on the touchline waiting for a pass but nobody sees him.
In the end, he comes inside looking for the ball adding to the congestion.
Every Monday in The Argus, there is some flimsy excuse from Oscar Garcia to hide his inability to guide and mould a squad of talented players into a proud cutting outfit – 5,000 missing fans every home game can’t be wrong.
Can I suggest that Garcia watches the next England women’s international and takes note. Their caretaker, and now present manager, has developed a style of running off the ball, using the pitch, one-touch passing and using triangles of play.
All these basics should be reintroduced at the Amex to conserve energy and concentration for a 90-minute match.
If he can’t or won’t, then he should go for the good of the club as a whole. Don’t keep blaming the players.
Viv Knight, Greenways, Southwick
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