"He has a rigid style of play and sticks to it even when it is not working. He encourages slow, ponderous play everywhere on the pitch. He encourages possession to the exclusion of everything else, resulting in sideways and backwards passing instead of moving forward at pace. He insists on...
You have to be joking. He's having a laugh!
Southampton boss Russell Martin told BBC Radio Solent:
"For 60-odd minutes I thought we were good. It was a really tight match. We played some amazing build-up, but it didn't come to enough.
If you sit in the kop and he's in front of you it's different from seeing from the side and behind. Yes a fair few passes were overhit but anyone who can sprint would have got ro a couple of them.
Oh yes they were. We had an excellent view. Most players would have got there to get a cross in but he just gave up far too easily on at least a couple of occasions. Everyone around us was in frustrated agreement.
We played well within ourselves. Clearly Enzo didn't want the players to go for it. He badly wants promotion. The following approach was applied to the whole game. We could have played much more in their faces and won.
"Overall the team was playing good. We didn't lose our identity.
You have...
So even with our 50 million pound parachute payment for this year we still fall foul of FFP? How does that work?
'English football finished if we don't keep it competitive' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68551806
You're bonkers if you think that performance increased confidence by any amount whatsoever. I don't believe for one minute the players lacked confidence at all. This is a team that played the most superb football for 80 minutes against one of the best teams only 3 matches ago.
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