You think he’s going to get us anywhere near the promotion picture without Ndiaye?
We don’t even have a style of play for a start. His genius and mercurial ability is why we are where we are now.
Very much agree.
It's not really been mentioned but PL and Championship football are like 2 different sports.
Slav has the principles of building a PL style team. He believes in pass and move, everyone needs to be comfortable in possession.
We controlled games under Slav but we were a bit like Swansea, loads of possession, some nice short passing
but the passing was too slow, we over passed, so there was little penetration. Also the defence...mainly Egan and Robinson were too slow.
So we often looked vulnerable when the defence pushed up to the half way line.
Hecky replaced Slav and made us revert to a mixed, more direct style that would work better in the Championship.
It's no big deal losing possession in the 2nd tier because you can quickly expect it back.
Where as in the PL, the ball must be more treasured, if you lose the ball, you might not get it back for 3 or 4 minutes.
Hecky was pragmatic, quite negative in the Championship. We didn't have much of a style, almost every match we passed it around well for 10 minutes
but then would have 15 minute spells where for some weird reason the whole team had zero composure and we couldn't string 3 passes together.
Hecky's main tactics were
1: Give the ball to Norwood who would try ambition long range passing, this often gave the ball away but sometimes was a great pass.
Here's me thinking why don't we build up attacks through midfield or at least see some midfielder interplay.
2: Rely on the individual brilliance of N'Diaye who could score from nothing
3: When in front...park the bus for the last 20 minutes of every match. I've mentioned that Egan and Robinson can get caught out for pace
but when they defend deep, defending the box then our defence was really good, under constant pressure but Wes didn't have many saves to make.
