Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach
I criticised Kane in the OMT, I thought up until his error he was ****. After that though he done pretty well.
I've stood up for TS in the past. The players still have to take some of the blame because they've been **** all season, but we were awful tonight and TS has to share the blame for that. Paulinho offers absolutely nothing, we know from past experience Naughton is not a left back, so why play him there? Soldado finally gets his goal then immediately finds himself back on the bench. We couldn't keep possession in midfield yet we didn't change anything to allow us to do so. We spent most of our time launching the ball up to Ade.
He's come out and criticised the players and has seemingly got absolutely no reaction from them. We didn't really fight tonight, we didn't press well, we allowed them to press us at every opportunity, our passing was sloppy, we didn't move the ball.
We are so so easy to play against, set up two banks of four, draw us in, then hit us on the break. Job done.
We did start OK I suppose and have a 5-10 minute period in 2nd half and Benfica do look an excellent side with players who are technically and tactically superior to ours.
But in all honestly, after coming out and saying what he said after the Chelsea game, TS has to shoulder some of the blame here.
Not looking forward to the NLD for probably the first time ever.