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Did you doubt that your players would respond as they did against Derby?
I’d rather prefer not to talk about situations where you analyse things in two different ways.
I am very careful to make those who listen to my explanations find them true. I try to say what I think it true and I try to show it’s true.
To analyse you don’t need any explanation and you have arguments that go against and confirm results.
If you tell me out of 12 points we got one, this is not good.
And in this segment of four games we played against the best team of the Championship at this moment and weren’t overwhelmed so you relativise the conclusions.
For me this aspect is very important even if I think I give excessive importance to this. ANd I’m talking about how a team defends and attacks. You can attack well and score only a few goals because you miss goals and you can defend well and concede goals.
If you have chances to score and don’t you have a problem with efficiency. You can’t do anything about it because there’s nothing to do to increase efficiency, Same when you defend.
You can defend well and prevent the opponent from creating chances to score but you have precise facts that the team concedes goals. Sometimes it’s mistakes, sometimes not and the game against Ipswich, if you see the goal they scored from a set-piece we had that situation three times in that game and they didn’t find the ball. And against Ipswich the number 21 found the ball to score the goal and we had no impact.
To sum up, the team that finished first and second score a goal every three chances. As before, we need six chances. The teams that were relegated needed five or six chances to score a goal and in the last four games we needed 12 chances to score, not just six.
This tells a lot about the play of the team. In the last four the opponents scored every three chances.
I always think what would be the result if we had the same efficiency.
To finish, I will give you more information.
You’ve heard that my teams usually arrive at this segment of the season tired physically and mentally. The game against Derby is the game we ran most in the whole season.
I listen to the arguments but not to convince myself of the opposite. Just to see if I must give credit to what I hear. I don’y know what’s wrong I can’t make an correction.
If I correct only the things people think are wrong, but a re not wrong instead of improving, it makes things worse.
I always have doubt about what I’m thinking and I always listen to the opinion of what I’m doing to see if I can make corrections and improve things but as you see if the comments improve the efficient everyone who knows about football will say you can’t have a solution. It just happens.
If you say avoid the mistakes, individual one, that concede goals, no one makes a mistake on purpose..
The design of defensive structure is to associate players and give a role to them. If you have the same info I have regarding the defensive behaviour of the team, it’s good.
I’m giving you this answer because you’re asking me if I’m surprised how my team played.
To be surprised it would mean I consider the last four games of the Championship would be different to the Derby game.
