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I’d genuinely consider sacking Le Bris after that, he’s team selection and substitutes were as bad as they come

I’ve gave myself time to sit and think about last night and our performances overall. So this is going to be a longer couple of tweets. Please feel free to read or not, provide genuine opinion, but don’t take this as anything more than just a balanced opinion. One thing is apparent in Regis Le Bris’ play style. And it is defend first, stay in games and attack with moments of brilliance to provide the answers. There are pros and cons to this for us. Obviously, we are very very likely to stay up now, he’s done his job. Set the foundations and kept us in the league. However, the league has been so open this year, there’s a genuine chance to finish top half, maybe even sneak conference league if we pinched 8th, simply because points are close. I am not sure whether that’s the best thing for us, but my point is just if we continued with our first half of the season form, there was every possibility just on the league formation. But, our lack of attacking intent does cost us sometimes. Last night I don’t think we got going until Liverpool scored. Before that it was slow, sideways, backwards. Liverpool sat deep (as a lot of teams are against us now) giving no space. We just don’t have the answers for that. RLB doesn’t really have any main attacking patterns of play, if his wide triangles don’t work. Of course lots of teams struggle with this. Once Liverpool scored, we had a flurry, until Endo got injured. Then Liverpool relaxed again and we ‘attacked’ with minimal intent despite being 1-0 down. Moving the ball with 3/4 touches a man. Playing a pass out wide but with two passes before it gets there. Liverpool didn’t have to work to hard. Now I mentioned how a lot of teams are now defending deep against us. This is a common RLB problem. The second half of the season. First season as a coach, he had Lorient 2nd near Christmas. They ended up 10th. They got relegated the season after. I have given him the benefit regarding that as Lorient sold his best players in January. Then last year, we were contending for automatics til around January, then we slowly faded until they weren’t on anymore and we then limped to the finish line (by choice). Now this season. 19 games had us 7th, 4 points off 4th. The 7 games since then have us 15th. Our only wins against 2 sides in worse form than us. Then we’ve had 3-0 x2 and a 3-1 away defeat, a 1-1 draw with a poor spurs side and last night. The performances in these games have been very poor. Lacking energy, intent and most of all the ability to attack, bar the Burnley game and Palace second half. I am again willing to give the benefit of the doubt during this run as Arsenal and Brentford away are very tough fixtures, Liverpool at home is still a tough fixture. The anomaly results are probably spurs and West Ham (who are on a good run atm) 1/2

A top performance from Romaine 🤩