Should Mourinho change tactics for Liverpool? Behave

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José Mourinho should ‘show a bit of adventure’, it seems. But first…

A classic of the genre
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a headline. Can only be Online Mail:

“Only seven points divide the top 10 in the Premier League and it has never been so tight in the middle of a chaotic season… so will Tottenham rank at the top after the hectic list of games or will Liverpool or Chelsea overtake them? (And can Man United and Man City catch up?) ‘

It’s honestly quite beautiful.

Man Utd Transfer Brine
Where to start with this clicky-clicky nonsense from the Daily Star website?

‘Man Utd’s January transfer plan could go out the window due to two current stars’

It is blatantly just a ruse to make ‘Man Utd’ and ‘transfer’ in the same headline, as it literally offers zero news or information; all other words in that headline could be literally anything. If Mediawatch worked at the Daily Star, we would fall into a ‘pickle’ or an ‘elephant’. Why not?

We are told that United could abandon their January plan to sign a winger and a central midfielder (although Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and common sense tells us otherwise) due to two players. And who are these two players who could deflect these non-existent plans? Odion Ighalo and Jesse Lingard, of course.

It’s unclear why Ighalo, a player who was always expected to leave in January and who has played a full nine minutes of the Premier League this season, would need to be replaced by another striker. It makes as much sense as Lingard’s possible departure forcing United to “add another central midfielder.” He’s not a central midfielder and hasn’t played a single minute of the Premier League this season, but otherwise the logic is sound.

Everything is outside the window. Including the concept of journalism.

Man Utd Transfer Elephant
Mind you, that nonsense fades into the background when you actually Google ‘Man Utd transfer news’ and land on the Express website:

‘Tottenham star Harry Kane may have changed his mind on Man Utd transfer’

The whole premise of the article, and we mean ‘complete’, is that Tottenham is much better than Manchester United, so Kane can now be happy to stick with the club he loves, which is the best in the league instead of join the club that he does. not love in eighth grade.

And you will probably get more clicks than anything else on Football365 today. For the love of God.

Expected nonsense
A classic ‘old man screaming at the clouds’ in Sun on this glorious Tuesday, with Dave Kidd complaining about ‘expected goals’, which he describes as the metric ‘that tells us what people who take football too seriously consider a match score should have been’.

It really is not so.

Expected goals (according to Opta) ‘measure the quality of a shot based on several variables, such as type of assist, angle of shot and distance to goal, if it was a head shot and if it was defined as a great opportunity . Adding up the expected goals of a player or team can give us an indication of how many goals a player or team should have scored on average, given the shots they have taken. ‘

Nothing to do with what ‘should have been’. And it’s not at all a metric designed to judge a match, which is why Kidd claims it’s a ‘bunch of nonsense’ because getting 104 out of 107 ‘wrong’ score lines is ignorant nonsense. Or more simply, a lot of nonsense.

My Little Pony
Elsewhere in his column, Dave Kidd implores José Mourinho to “show a little adventure” at Anfield on Wednesday. Because of course, a visit to an undefeated team at home since April 2017 is exactly the right time to ‘show a little adventure’.

Kidd describes Wednesday night as a “chance to light up the day between Spurs and Liverpool.” Hmmm. We suspect that José Mourinho will be more than happy to simply keep up with champion Liverpool. We’re sure Kidd has checked the xG and realized that Liverpool should be ahead of Spurs.

Kidd scoffs at Mourinho’s lack of ambition in the 0-0 draw with Chelsea last month when Spurs were unbeaten in the Premier League from day one of the season. Yes, you really must regret that.

Mourinho’s favorite trio in midfield, consisting of Moussa Sissoko, Tanguy Ndombele and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, were the unsmiling goalkeepers, as Frank Lampard’s men failed to shoot on target until the 81st minute.

‘Against a full-strength Liverpool, a repeat of that would be the only sensible approach. But against this patched side?

‘Is there no possibility of a little more attack intent via Giovani Lo Celso? A start for Dele Alli? Even Harry Winks as a deeply liar playmaker?

That’s literally the midfield that beat Manchester United 6-1 and Manchester City 2-0, so trading it for the toughest road trip of the season would be absolutely incredible. A start for Dele Alli? Behave.

Maybe Kidd just needs to admit that his January claim that “just seven weeks later and the argument that Tottenham was hiring a new model José Mourinho already seems flawed” is the argument that actually seems flawed. It’s okay, Dave; we were all wrong. It belongs to me.

Rigid
“Pep Guardiola has supported his former assistant Mikel Arteta as the pressure continues to mount on the Arsenal manager,” is an accurate representation of Guardiola’s comments on Arteta. Thank you Mirror website.

As for the header… Does this seem or remotely sound like a ‘stern warning to Arsenal amid Mikel Arteta’s struggles’?

Still, at least the ‘stern warning’ was genuinely made ‘in the middle of Arteta’s struggles’. Unlike ‘Mauricio Pochettino comments on Arsenal management as pressure increases on Mikel Arteta‘, which were made in bloody 2018.

A cunning plan
Flashback is 8:20 PM, but why didn’t they try this? against fulham?

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