Ange Postecoglou

Hopefully he learns from today, needs to make changes when they are required instead of waiting for his usual time to change, a few changes should have been made at half time.

 

Some major learning points today.

Don’t start Forrest against them ever again.

Never bring on Juranovic at left back when we have a natural left back on the bench.

Make changes when players are playing * terrible.

Subs today are questionable, times as well, felt like we gave them a leg up.

When things are going well, give him credit and it’s due but also he should be held accountable when he gets it wrong, today for me he got it massively wrong and I think if he just started with this strongest 11 we would have beat them easily by 2/3 goals and be 12 points clear.

 

Really lucky to get a point out of that. No shape whatsoever when Reo and Maeda came off.

 

Easy to say after the fact. Juranovic is an experienced international who has been facing the likes of Vinicius recently. He's also always performed brilliantly against the Huns before today. Bernabei on the other hand is inexperienced and let's not forget, had to be taken off against Hearts because he was being repeatedly targeted and looked like a red card waiting to happen.

 

He wasn’t fully fit, wants away and was played out of position.

Nothing about that screams “let’s bring him on at Ibrox”.

 

I questioned the decision at the time, berny has came on heaps and bounds since that Hearts game

 

Can't blame him for the Starting XI, we must take the illnesses into account. But majorly * up by bringing on JJ instead of Bernabei and should have brought the subs on much earlier. Those who were ill would have given it their all the moment they came on even with 35+ minutes still to play and were were 2-1 down.

 

I'm happy with a draw but Ange takes the majority of the blame for that performance. Forrest should have come off at half time along with O'Riley. We improved when Mooy and Jota came on. Juranovic must be away because his heart wasn't in it, you'd think if there had been no approaches made for him he would be playing for a move. Big Ange is a good manager but he does seem to have his favourites and can be naive a times.

 

Starting lineup wrong, deserved credit for leaving Kyogo on.

 

And yet despite all that, Ange still brought him on instead of the obvious choice in Bernabei. Why? It's not that he isn't willing to throw players in to big games as he showed today with Johnson and in the past with Starfelt and Jura, so I'm assuming he has good reason for not yet trusting Bernabei.

As he's said previously, we have a fraction of the information that he has when making these decisions.

 

Biggest mistake

 

Maybe, maybe not. We've only really seen him come on in games where we've been cruising or ones where we're completely dominating and pushing for a winner. Which is most games to be fair, but my point is that he hasn't really been tested all that much since the Hearts game, and for whatever reason Ange seemingly doesn't trust him yet.

 

Tbh not many games in this league will test our full backs defensively

 

True mate, although the Hearts one did and he was shaky as *.

Would have been interesting to see how he did today and whether he has come on since then, as I'm not sure he could have done much worse than Jura did.

At any rate, if Taylor's out and Jura's off, he's probably gonna get his first proper chance for an extended run.

 

* off TC, 9 clear and an away game at the debt dome and remain 9 clear, give yourselves a shake ffs

 

The * complaining in here today just proves that no matter what what we do there will always be an internal section waiting to bring us down. Suck plums guys as we are 9 clear and 18 to play

 

Ange cough count for 2023 for Sky TV pre/post match is at 2 so far.