“The snow significantly affected the first half of the Manchester City-West Ham duel. According to guest coach David Moyes, the difficult terrain was to be an advantage for his team. But he wasn’t.
I was very curious about the mutual confrontation. West Ham is having a great season. The club certainly didn’t expect them to be so high on the table. Their season is exceeding expectations. However, the battle with Guardiola’s retinue showed that they did not belong to the narrowest and could not play the title.
Manchester City clearly dominated. He created a lot of chances. Their presinking and repressing after losing a balloon has traditionally been famous. Although the score was only a goal, the match was to end with a significantly bigger difference.
Souček without rest
The productivity of Tomáš Souček is much addressed. That is not as effective as at the beginning of the season. He has played twenty-five matches since mid-August. On average, he played matches every four days. To do this, a giant portion of travel. With representations to Belgium and Russia, with clubs to Croatia, Belgium and Austria. He receives virtually no rest.
No one can imagine what the charge is. He’s the type he always wants to play. When you ask him a hundred times if he wants to go to a match, he nods a hundred times. He will never tell himself to rest. But then you just need to intervene from the position of the coach and the path of choice must end. Otherwise, Suk cooks.
Anyway, West Ham is on the right track. They have been playing well for the second season and have stable results. They would have to invest a lot, bring even more quality. Giants buy players for a hundred million euros.
The entry of a new investor, the owner of Sparta, is also related to this. Daniel Křetínský has built incredible respect in the business world. He definitely has a vision. The owners of West Ham are elderly, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually took over the entire club. This is a huge prestige for the world in which it operates.
Chelsea lost at home for the second time in a row. With Manchester United, who surprisingly did not deploy Christian Ronald.
Cristiano Ronaldo had little reason to be satisfiedPhoto: David Klein, Reuters
No one saw the training process. Maybe Ronaldo was tired. I read that everything went exactly according to plan. Substitute coach Michael Carrick wanted to put Jadon Sanch on the lineup to gain more speed, as the game plan consisted of a well-organized defense and quick lunges. I’m not saying Ronaldo is slow. But Sancho has shown good form in previous games and it has paid off.
It took a lot of courage to sit Cristiano, because Ronaldo definitely wanted to play Chelsea. This is a big match and he is a man for big matches. Internally, he certainly accepted the absence in the lineup. but it must have been hard for his ego to take a seat on the bench.
Michael Carrick on the Manchester United benchPhoto: Pablo Morano, Reuters
Hats off to Carrick, for whom he was the last to head coach. His temporary stunt is over. And you didn’t do badly. In a difficult situation, he helped advance to the round of the Champions League.
United hired Ralf Rangnick. They didn’t have many variants left, because the top coaches are dismantled. He is an experienced coach who led Hoffenheim and raised Leipzig unbelievably. I look forward to his performance and wonder what he will do to the Devils. “
Radoslav Kovac
Radoslav Kováč is a former football representative who worked in Sigma Olomouc, Sparta Prague, Spartak Moscow, West Ham United, Basel and Liberec. He won the league in the Czech Republic and Switzerland, where he also celebrated his triumph in the cup competition. He played at the World and European Championships, with the Under-21 national team he won the European Championships.
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