Fixing Our Tactic

We need help

Fixing Our Tactic

We really need help.

We’ve lost the ability to win, for better or worse. And we’re up against Shanghai Shenhua today — one of the best teams in the league.

I did a little bit of tactical tweaking. I was trying to get our players to attack a bit more, to push forward instead of holding onto possession and playing conservatively.

I thought we looked good in attack, but we still lost.

The truth is that we looked good despite losing. We had better momentum:

We won the xG battle - barely, but we won it:

And our stats looked better:

It was just one of those things, I’m afraid.