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There is no doubt in my mind that a lot of our players are lacking energy. We are constantly losing the midfield because we have too many plodders in that area. The Sun on Sunday printed a damning chart showing that we are 19th in the milage covered this season. No surprise Liverpool were top. We need to employ someone to improve their energy levels.
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Originally posted by slubglurge
There is no doubt in my mind that a lot of our players are lacking energy. We are constantly losing the midfield because we have too many plodders in that area. The Sun on Sunday printed a damning chart showing that we are 19th in the milage covered this season. No surprise Liverpool were top. We need to employ someone to improve their energy levels. And utd were below us And at the time we were the fifth most pressing team we are fifth in goals scored
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I firmly believe our fitness levels are not as good as they were under Pulis and is a key reason why we used to over-perform and now under-perform. Players cannot play well when they are nackered.
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Originally posted by rollercoaster
I firmly believe our fitness levels are not as good as they were under Pulis and is a key reason why we used to over-perform and now under-perform. Players cannot play well when they are nackered. There could be something in this but I would suggest that with all the monitoring of fitness there is these days, it is not down to only the manager. I suspect quite a few people see the data.
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Having less miles covered isn't necessarily a bad thing, HOWEVER; we are set up in the way that indicates that is they way we like to play. We are not the Pulis/Dougie team that likes to have less possession and simply hit teams on the break. We're trying to play a more possession based system but there is an incredible lack of movement and intensity in our game. The fitness issues have seemed to become more and more apparent the longer Pardew has been in charge. For a patch of the season we looked like a decent pressing team, but that system is so reliant on McArthur and Puncheon, the rest of the squad seems incredibly unfit.
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Why this obsession with possession? Leicester became champions with an average of 30-35%.
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They are most likely the exception rather than the rule though. I just want us to win. I would prefer us winning playing decent attractive football, but if we have to tough it out I'll take it so long as we win.
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Doesn't the fact that we play better in the second half suggest it's not a fitness problem....
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Originally posted by spartakev2
Doesn't the fact that we play better in the second half suggest it's not a fitness problem.... Yeah i was wondering that too.
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Originally posted by Mad4palace
Having less miles covered isn't necessarily a bad thing, HOWEVER; we are set up in the way that indicates that is they way we like to play. We are not the Pulis/Dougie team that likes to have less possession and simply hit teams on the break. We're trying to play a more possession based system but there is an incredible lack of movement and intensity in our game. The fitness issues have seemed to become more and more apparent the longer Pardew has been in charge. For a patch of the season we looked like a decent pressing team, but that system is so reliant on McArthur and Puncheon, the rest of the squad seems incredibly unfit.
Teams who keep the ball run less, as they are letting the ball do the work.
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Originally posted by Username
Teams who keep the ball run less, as they are letting the ball do the work. Maybe true, anyone who can find what our distance covered stats from 14/15 in particular would give us some indication, also where Leicester ranked last year. But at the moment we're averaging 51.6% possession each game, that's the 8th highest in the league, highish yes but it's not around the 55-60% where the opposition would naturally be needing to do substantially greater amount of chasing down. Perhaps both our high-ish possession stats and low distance covered numbers are mainly due to us conceding the first goal so often? Edited by Mad4palace (09 Nov 2016 5.48pm)
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If you take Liverpool as a prime example, of high presssing, total fitness for 90mins, they never gave a minute on the ball, no wonder we can play a bit better in the 2nd Half of games, cos we ain't busted a sweat in the 1st half. BUT saying that I thought we looked knackered 15 mins before the end of the Liverpool game.
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