11 Feb 2026 02:36:40
I do hope we start Yoro against Everton over Maguire. Need pace in the backline to play a higher line. Can't break teams who are happy to counter otherwise, which is what I suspect Everton will do.
11 Feb 2026 06:05:21
I think Carrick fell into a bit of naivety naming the same team for all 5 games, yes they have done very well, but the very best make tweaks against different teams as required Carrick got a bit caught up riding a wave of the last 4 games, when alarm bells should have rang and a few tweaks should have been made, yes it’s hard to change a winning team but that’s what sorts the real managers from the pretenders….
Having said that hopefully he learns from it and we move on, we escaped with a point, now few tweaks for the next…. I appreciate what he got on the bench and squad is poor, but just a change is sometimes good enough.
I think him and staff will realise this and not follow the nativity of RA and never learn.
11 Feb 2026 07:08:25
With the drop off we have seen with subs it is hard to change a winning team, however with it being a short period since the Spurs game there was definitely a logic to mix it up.
Unfortunately as we keep saying the drop off in performances from the bench means that would have been a risk, however I think starting Sesko for Cunha might have been the one change with Cunha coming on fresh second half.
Biggest issue was once Sesko was on not getting enough crosses in, when we did they looked panicked.
However, 5 games on from Amorim we have picked up 13 points and are in the running for champions league, we would have all taken that at the start.