Sadly Ange's arrogance has outgrown his ability. Now it's one thing to play Barthelona esque football in the A league when you have control of the team 24/7 and the speed of the game is 1 mph, its another to do it in a crucial world cup qualifier playing against quality opposition when your cattle has the first touch of an elephant. Ange persists playing suicidal football from the back in the imaginary hope that someday it will suddenly click and we transform into Barthelona out there. How many goals and shaky moments do we need to concede before Ange realises his arrogant tactics are killing us and have jeapordised our chances of world cup qualification? My guess is there is no amount of goals because Ange is convinced he's a coaching demigod and is incapable of admitting he his philosophy, while ambitious, his implementation of it is deeply flawed and doesnt reflect the capabilities of the players. Only an idiot would continually play suicidal football from the back when we keep conceding goals and giving away possession and there literally nothing to be gained other than looking like a try hard Barthelona. We also look stilted in the final third, Ange seems to think if we just knock the ball around like Barthelona eventually a space will open up and we will score goals, the only time we look threatening is when we play direct.

Part of me hopes we dont automatically qualify, hopefully Ange will get sacked and we can get someone whose head isnt in their @rse and will get us playing football conducive to our strength. If we go to the world cup with Ange as our coach we will get absolutely slaughtered.