Maybe there will be loads of goals because neither team is playing with a position to protect. In fact, you'd think our players will want to entertain their home supporters and Wilshere will demand a performance. Onel will get some minutes (75th minute sub?) and the biggest cheer of the afternoon perhaps. What a story for Mr Argos. A frustrating player with an unpredictable end product but always a trier and clearly just loves being a professional footballer. I've never minded when he has been introduced to a game. That's one interest in this game anyway. Goodbyes (unofficially if course) to Sainz and Sargent. Possibly Nunez. Interesting to watch post match reactions.
It looks like the job is Wilshere's and perhaps it always has been (and support for Thorup was never fullsome maybe?). He is on record too for saying that the top 6 was an objective. His message watered down as the season progressed and we were asked to believe in this transition. Any season is one of those. At least I agreed with Wilshere that the point of football is to win games. Simple as that. And he did set up the team at Boro playing to player strengths, patterns and positions.
Like Clough would say "your job as a striker is to get the ball in their net, your job as a defender is to stop them getting close to your goal and your job as a midfielder is to run backwards and forwards quickly, getting the ball off the defenders and giving it to the strikers".
We've not seen quite enough of that this season! We have seen one third of the equation (strikers scoring) but the other two parts have been under par far too often.
I don't care who is manager as long as we get back the spine of a team (which plays effectively...those simple Clough words) and a togetherness in the group again. There's been a disconnect with fans (Smith and Thorup were not strong at it especially) ...but it also goes to board level. Farke understood it perfectly. We need a new coach to do the same.
Prediction? 4-1, 5-1 or 4-2? I'm going 4-1.
