CITYTILLIDIE11 wrote:bad choices might cost us in the bigger games where Hughes needs to pit his whit’s against the top 4.
CITYTILLIDIE11 wrote:Do others like me find some of Hughes tactics and substitutions baffling?
I am not basing this on one match, I am basing with observations I made last season and this season, last season there were many matches where I felt Hughes dawdled in making substitutions, and when he did belatedly make them I was just confused, throwing a 2-0 lead against Liverpool because we were unable to shut up shop is one that springs to mind, playing right sided players on the left etc were others.
We have had a great season so far, yet I feel we lost to the Scum because Hughes changed things at half time and took far to long to revert back to the same system, I remember De Jong pleading with him to sure up the midfield because we were being over run, he took far to long to change things, tonight for me it was evident very early on that midfield was none existent, substitutions should have been made after maybe just half an hour, bringing on SI was a positive move, then any benefit from it effectively evaporated by bringing on the clearly unfit RSC ,I feel we could and should have beaten these if the right choices were made by Hughes.
It might cost us in the bigger games where Hughes needs to pit his whit’s against the top 4.
I just felt we were set up wrong very early on, playing Tevez ,Adebayor,and Bellamy at the cost of the midfield cost us in my opinion, luckily we went in only 1-0 down.9secondlegend wrote:to be fair , and i fucking hate hughes, he was ready to make 2 changes it seemed , but we scored so he made 1. and that was with 20-30 minutes left. perfect time to make a change.
SORTED wrote:Santa Cruz clearly needs match time and I think that was the idea behind Hughes giving him 20 minutes. I personally would have slung petrov on but hey ho in Hughes we trust an' all that.
shawzy wrote:SORTED wrote:Santa Cruz clearly needs match time and I think that was the idea behind Hughes giving him 20 minutes. I personally would have slung petrov on but hey ho in Hughes we trust an' all that.
Spot on..But can u change that annoying Avatar it fookin does me bastard head in lol ;-0
yes it isSORTED wrote:shawzy wrote:SORTED wrote:Santa Cruz clearly needs match time and I think that was the idea behind Hughes giving him 20 minutes. I personally would have slung petrov on but hey ho in Hughes we trust an' all that.
Spot on..But can u change that annoying Avatar it fookin does me bastard head in lol ;-0
No it doesn't.
mcfc1632 wrote:I am not sure that harping back to last season is going to be really relevant - he has the personnel now to offer all options - so he needs to make the right choices
CITYTILLIDIE11 wrote:yes it isSORTED wrote:shawzy wrote:SORTED wrote:Santa Cruz clearly needs match time and I think that was the idea behind Hughes giving him 20 minutes. I personally would have slung petrov on but hey ho in Hughes we trust an' all that.
Spot on..But can u change that annoying Avatar it fookin does me bastard head in lol ;-0
No it doesn't.
SORTED wrote:shawzy wrote:SORTED wrote:Santa Cruz clearly needs match time and I think that was the idea behind Hughes giving him 20 minutes. I personally would have slung petrov on but hey ho in Hughes we trust an' all that.
Spot on..But can u change that annoying Avatar it fookin does me bastard head in lol ;-0
No it doesn't.
you rightly point out we are making progress, last season the personnel we had at our disposal meant that bad choices by Hughes would have meant almost certain defeat, today we came away with a point after playing nowhere near as good as we can.johnpb78 wrote:mcfc1632 wrote:I am not sure that harping back to last season is going to be really relevant - he has the personnel now to offer all options - so he needs to make the right choices
I dont know mate, I cannot let the madness of the Gelson substitution go when at the time of Zabaleta's sending off we had Micah at centre half who was playing right back for England that month, Kompany in midfield who could have sorted the CB position out, and even had TBH on the bench, so I can't accept that he didnt have options in many of the situations last year, rather he had options that he did not deploy properly. You really would have to have taken leave of your senses to play Gelson at RB when you had all those options on hand - it really worries me this tactical/substitutions issue
Having said that, I was reasonably happy tonight. RSC has to get some game time to get his sharpness back. The next big test for Hughes is to see if RSC had any sharpness in the first place - fortunately he might get away with RSC tanking on the grounds of the exceptional form of Bellers
The RSC substitution possibly cost us a win, but at least it wasnt an embarrassing defeat like last years Liverpool / Spuds decisions were - that is progress!
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