weasel wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 5:31 pm
Farke doesn't make subs gets abused.
Farke makes subs get abused.
End of the day if sub Nmecha buries his chance we win.
We have to manage our players. Stach back from injury not played in weeks is gonna be running on fumes, looked tired a lot earlier than when he was taken off. So we don't have like for like well heck just gotta use what we have in the squad.
Just a very scruffy goal to concede, apart from that we defended pretty well and carried our own threat, we had the better chances even though we were penned in during the second half.
Yeah it's a sh*tter to concede a late one again but don't think it was down to subs/lack of subs or anything managerial.
Farke used to get abused for making sub's on 80 minutes.... Its his prerogative as a manager but it is clear that listening to interviews with more successful managers there are two trains of thought on it. Subs on 60 mins gives more time for fresh legs to pay dividends and players to get into the game..... Keeping the same players on for longer allows for no drop in consistency while players get up to speed..... Pick your poison kind of choice.
Sub's of key players who are instrumental to the way we play even if tired weakens us to dramatic effect often forcing us to sit deep......
DCL even for nmecha means we have no outlet for long balls to relive pressure with the knock on effect we have more running/defending to do and more chances to concede.
Stach is another whose height wins us so many second balls.... And cuts out counters so often....
Ampadu is another..... (Rarely subbed).
Its less an attack on farke than on our board for not signing like for like cover..... A big tall forward like who forest signed on loan and who scored against us is a prime example.
My issue is that we crumble so often late on in games that there has to be a reason why..... This stands out even amongst promoted sides.
9 goals or more now in the last 10 mins with the most points dropped from winning positions.... For me I think its late sub's with a completely different style of player brought on causing gaps in our play that players don't adapt to quick enough to spot.
Today Stach for Long staff..... Both very good players but with very different profiles. They moved the remaining midfield over meaning gruev replaced starch in effect. A tired gruev at that who isn't even in the same ball park physically/athletically as stach. The knock on for the goal was in the area stach covered earlier in the game. Not saying its definitive but definitely more likely for me that he would have won the second ball.
On the whole though brilliant performance and farke needs a lot of credit for outdoing unai away with the players they have.... Brilliant performance. Just frustrated we can't get over the line and make these chances count.
