by Zidane » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:08 pm
The thing I hate about Rafa is he doesn't ever, I repeat, EVER play players based on form. He plays them based on who's fit and how he wants the team to play that given game, and every game thereafter. He doesn't change his tactics much for different opposition (IMO) it is usually the same at its core but changes only by what players are being played. It doesn't matter if someone went out and scored a hat trick the game before Torres was announced fit to play, Torres would immediately get slotted back into the starting XI and to me that is bollox. Doesn't matter who you are you don't win your place back immediately after coming back from injury unless the other option is playing like sh!t. The moment the backup has a bad game you put in Torres immediately but until then I don't think you can just take the lads spot away. (there are exceptions I suppose but wolves/gerrard wasn't one)
Contrary to what others say I think we played well against Spurs and were clearly the better team, there was no need for changes and Rafa overcomplicated it, made a game harder than it really was. I don't think we are going to turn things around until every single player is fit and that to me is inexcusable. At the beginning of the season I thought we would eventually turn things around once some players were fit because we had literally no one at the time, but now we have a bit of quality out there if it was used the right way we would play well but Rafa is not doing that right now. I don't see it changing anytime soon either I really hope it does but christ it is getting painful to watch us play. It's gotten to the point to where if I miss the match I have to know the result ahead of time cause I know if we lost or drew it more than likely was an absolutely horrible display of football from us.
