For me it's because he started this season less cautious and we picked up results. He then reverted to having us play cautious and the results/PPG dropped off.
Can you give any examples of how we have become more cautious? We've become less clinical and certainly failed to create, but that does mean we are being cautious. The Swansea game wasn't exactly scintillating but it was a professional result determined by one piece of great skill from Maja to set up Molumby.
There are certainly reasons to worry about the last five games: we are not a free-flowing, but most teams aren't - football is a game of trade-offs, the more you attack the more open you are, the more risk there is of being done on the counter. We're about midtable for goals scored, but 4th for goals against, and three of those came vs Wednesday (one deflection, one keeper error, one actual goal). For those that care, we are also underperforming our xG by about two goals - we should have scored 15, which could have converted a couple of the last few results from losses to draws, or draws to wins.
At the beginning of the season I had us in mid-table, and then at the end of the window I had us winning the play-offs. The results recently haven't been good but this notion that CC is the second coming of Pulis or Ismael is so far off the mark in my opinion. I hear people bemoaning a lack of plan B. If plan B was any good, it would be plan A. What exactly is our squad set up to do differently? We don't have a target man to lump balls into the box, and most Championship defenders will eat that up.
I think it's clear from the players in our back line that we want to be a bigger threat from set-pieces, and that has to be something to work on moving forward. You don't play a 6-4 guy at left back and not have a thought as to the benefits in both boxes.
