Sam Allardyce
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635 appearances
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first heard Dec 2015
last heard 13 Apr
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I don't think the five or the four really had anything to do with the goal, the first goal, because...
If Martin Kelly just heads it out properly, then we can defend the corner.
But I just didn't feel that the lads were comfortable, as I felt they might be, playing in the back five to stop Manchester City attacking with their four.
So I thought I'd put the block up.
So we went back to a four and we got better from that point of view going forward.
playing some good counter-attacking football, got a few opportunities, but our final third play today let us down as well as our defensive play, so both ends of the pitch today were very poor from where we've got recently, and obviously we deserve to get punished like we did.
Well, no, if I'd have had the centre-halves fit that we've got, I'd have played them, there's no doubt about that, and
And obviously our strength has come from our good, solid defensive unit, and that today was in tatters by the end, sadly.
It's in our hands, and we've got to do it ourselves.
We've got to be men enough, brave enough, and capable enough to do it ourselves, especially after what we've achieved recently.
To even leave ourselves in this position now,
three defeats on the track like I said to players all you had to do was keep getting the draw keep getting the points and you've not done that again you know that was you know could have been achieved against Tottenham but wasn't gifted the points in the end to Burnley by not staying in the game at 1-0 and then today today we just didn't deserve anything so Manchester City have got the right result Thank you Sam Cheers
I think that we had the opportunities of course to score goals and I think that
Tonight, tactically, was the players being aware of what had to happen to beat Arsenal, and I think the first thing was to defend correctly as an 11, to frustrate the Arsenal, keep them playing sideways and backwards, and then to use the ball into the spaces behind the full-backs.
We were offering Christian Benteke as quickly as we possibly could to fill the area,
win the knockdown and get into wide areas and get balls in the box.
And I thought the weaknesses with Arsenal have been defensively because they leave Mustafi and Gabriel, they're really exposed.
Monreal and Beryl in play like right and left wingers.
The wingers come inside with a centre forward and they're just left on their own.
So if you can get at them quickly through midfield and into wide areas or off Christian, you can get in the opposition's box, you can get chances.
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