Dear Andre Villas Boas,
I hope this email finds you well. First, I take these opportunuty to wish our boys all the best in the match agaisnt Bolton that is coming in less than an hour from now. Dispite all the dissapointments, I must tell you we are still very optimistic and looking forward to this match with alot of expectations. To us, missing out on the Champions League spot is something we cant even imagine, and any efforts toward us achieving this objective is more than appreciated by us, the fans.
I want t bring to your attention my dissapointments in the manner in which you handled our Napoli match. I was earger and was hoping for a Valencia kind of approach, where Chelsea were generally superior to Valencia as we confirmed our qualification to the knock out stages.
We have had claims that Chelsea has "dead wood" who are not committed then why the hell on earth do you leave Romeu on the bench.(Did he feature at all) Is he dead wood too? According to you, you would rather play your good for nothing Meirelles, and leave Oriol Romeu on the bench, a player who has done his job superbly. A player who all fans think can develop and grow into a midfield maestro, fitting perfectly into the Makelele role, a player who a section of the fans think has the skills of Makelele and the body of Alex and is perfect for premiership. Why AVB, why?
AVB, you take us to Napoli, a team which plays 3-5-2. A team which relies on three deadly players. Hamsik, Lavezzi and Cavanni. I thought, as a one time opposition scout, we had our work cut out for us. As an opposition scout, i expected you to have issued instructions to our players, to focus on getting Napoli out of the game. With such an attacking talent Napoli had, why did you play without a holding midfielder? Why did you stick with the 4-3-3 formation even when we were outnumbered in midfield?
Am glad you finally heeded to our advise and played Mata centrally. But we all know Mata is more of an attacking threat and hence when he plays centrally especially in the 4-3-3 formation, you must have a strong holding midfielder. I believe you had those those options. Essien, Romeu and Mikel. So, why did you allow Napoli to control our midfield?
Your intention was to play Bosingwa left back. Perhaps because Ashley Cole had not fully recovered. On what basis was your judgement sir? And, having watched Betrand play against Birmingham and not having put a foot wrong in the entire match, wasnt it not enough to have him start the match in place of Bosingwa?
AVB,need i remind you that Walter Materazzi, the Napoli coach in the build up to tuesday’s match and having been banned from the touchline said his assistant was more of a technical genius. I agree. He won tactically. Look at Cavani for instance, he scored one and assisted the other two and from a deeper position. Cavani was playing more from a second striker position as opposed to center forward position, due to his pace and power. When a striker plays deep and bursts forward every moment is always a problem for the opposing defenders. Some will chose to follow him, others would ignore and leave him to the midfielders to track him down. Chelsea defenders chose to ignore and leave him to the midfielders (who weren’t there) and since 4-3-3 has only three in the middle, there was no one to track Cavani. And anytime the defenders would track Cavani, Lavezzi will automatically find himself in space and bam….!
If you didnt see that with the first goal, you should have seen with the second and perhaps would have avoided the third.
And would you sir care to explain to me what your game plan was? Was it to attack, defend or what exactly did you tell the boys to do? And if it didn't work, did you make any tactical substitutions or was yours the normal change of personality.
I am asking, i need answers. Thereafter, I will blame the old players.
Yours truly,
Frank Oloo
www.toksoccer.blogspot.com
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