25 Nov 2025 10:17:10
Few points on last night:

1.) I don't think I have ever seen a manager wedded to a specific formation but the style of play is flexible. Credit to Amorim we have changed this year and are playing the ball long more, playing to Lammens and Seskos strengths. But the lack of willingness to change the formation last night just screamed of irrational stubbornness. People say the formation is just a way to line the players up at kick off and then everyone moves about but i didn't see too much movement or changing positions last night, it felt like Shaw/Dalot and Yoro/De Ligt were both playing the same positons last night lol.

2.) I think people were conned a bit with this "1 game a week" logic. The majority of teams in the league play 1 game a week because they are not very good. there's only been a couple of teams who have 1 game a week counts as any advantage (Contes chelsea title winning team and Rodgers Liverpool title challenging team) . I think we fall into the former camp where any additional time on the training ground is not making any difference.

3.) I am not his biggest fan and think he is over rated but Bruno F is magic in and around the box and last night i hardly saw him there and he was playing way too deep. With both sekso and cunha out, surely the logical move is to play Bruno F higher up and stick Mainoo next to Casemiro.

1.) 25 Nov 2025
25 Nov 2025 13:08:59
We are just a team in waiting until bruno, casemiro, shaw, dalot, mcguire are all gone. Madness how married to these players amorim is. But he will learn like many before him. Maybe it was just too much for one manager to do all at once? Maybe we need to next guy to rip the remaining bandaid off.

He did a lot to push us forward, by removing the first half of a broken squad. But he still has these players as his leadership team and he still has bruno as captain in midfield. The result is games like last night.

2.) 25 Nov 2025
25 Nov 2025 13:24:48
Bruno shouldn't be playing in a two man midfield.
We all kow that he's a much better player when he is played further forward. It's like fitting round pegs in square holes. If you're going to play Bruno then play him in his corrrect position.


We are absolutely desperate for two proper central midfielders, even when Everton were down to 10 men they were still exposing the central midfield areas.