Taking advice from that OAP these days, are we?
Who said we're taking his advice? It's a solid philosophy on how to win games - do with it whatever you want. Besides, good advice is good advice and where it comes from is irrelevant. Ignore it if you think you should - but it doesn't change the fact that a sound defence is critical when after league titles.
I remember how his replacement got on with trying it. I remember how it worked for Chelsea last year too.
Moyes changed things and did it his way; perhaps he's just wasn't as good a manager. Mourhino needed a few replacement players - and then when he got them, he went on to win the league on the back of a solid defence and cagey footballing style. So I'm not entirely sure your point is a valid one.
We've conceded 5 goals away from home since Christmas, so the defence has tightened up without changing our approach. We conceded 5 goals in the last 2 away games last season alone.
Perhaps if he
had played it more cagey against certain teams, we'd have won a few more games. An efficient defence helps to do that but isn't the main point here; which is, we need to adapt how we
approach certain teams.
Brendan said on last year's DVD that his philosophy is "Start Fast, Finish Strong". He won't change, so you just have to like it or live with it.
Or, as I read that "
Hit them so fast so hard they won't have enough time to score enough goals to beat you so don't worry if you concede 51 goals a season". This season we've conceded 38 goals with 3 games to go, and we are 5th with the worst goals conceded tally in the top 5. You can do the maths
As for your last point, you don't know he won't change. Managers tend to evolve and Rodgers tends to learn from his mistakes so who is to say he won't adopt a more defensive strategy in future?
Alternatively, we can go back to the boring days of controlling the game. But what it won't bring us is League Championships.
During the 30 years of our dominance we played cagey defensive football which on times wasn't pretty to watch; we adapted against teams we happened to be playing at any given moment. To take a Paisley phrase "
It isn't about the long ball or the short ball it's about the right ball" (or something very similar to that). Meaning, we'll do whatever we have to do (i.e. we'll play any way) to win football matches. It wasn't all sexy attacking football back then, we'd also stifle games by nullifying and stifling teams in order to secure the points we needed.
When we were successful it was because we adapted when we played certain teams. We are not doing that now and it's my opinion we should be.
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