1
General Football & Sports / Re: Matheus Pereira
« on: January 12, 2021, 03:46:25 PM »What does that even mean?
Every Allardyce side has had flair players..
As I said above I’ve listened to a few people recently who played under him who have said it’s a total myth that Allardyce is a ‘long ball’ merchant.
Infact he encourages his flair players to play football...
I’ve never understood this thinking. Baseless foundations based on an agenda and not the facts
the one thing they probably have in common is a desire to win beyond that I truly doubt they have much of a shared philosophy. Do I know that for certain, no. But one is an attack first skill player who wants to get on the ball as much as possible the other is a defence first, rigid organisation led manager.
I don't think its a controversial statement to say Sam is a more defensively minded manager. He's not as bad as Pullis by any stretch but he's shown time and again that he's a % guy. I'm sure I read an article a few years back during his Bolton days where he was talking proudly about how much he relied on stats to inform his tactics and the rigid game plans he developed off the back of it. Some of it was quite intelligent (where to position a player to ensure you pick up the clearance from a corner) but others were meat and potatoes for long ball traditional style games (we must have X balls into the box per game / we must not have possession in these areas of the pitch etc)