Of course he must shoulder some of the responsibility but really the players on the pitch are often showing a lack of leadership. I think we have seen much poorer leadership from Bruno since his re-positioning. He doesn't play with the calm required to sort things out the way a strong captain would. I'd almost be tempted to give it to De Ligt. He is consistently our best player.
The players are a mix of dumb and inexperienced. Yoro has been dropped, made a couple of mistakes and now the forward momentum we saw from him has been dissipated. Its a confidence thing, Shaw just can't physically do it for 90 mins. Both those players needed to be stepping up on Monday as they were the spare guys and Everton only left 1 up.
I think he's won the argument with Wilcox etc. This squad is 20-30% formed and still needs huge surgery. Cunha, Lammens and Mbeumo were a step forwards but thats three positions. I still think we need an CB, 2/3 central midfielders and 2 wing backs!
To be fair thats been the case for years unless we play Ole ball and counter attack. That type of football has a ceiling and it isn't League Champions (unless you are Leicester).
Where I will criticise Amorim is that he has persisted with things that are only partially working for too long. We all know Casemiro and Bruno doesn't work but that's all we are seeing for most of the games. Most of us know that Shaw is finished but he is ever present. He's also made his leadership group from players that aren't first choice - Dalot, Mazraoui, Heaton, Maguire, Martinez are not starters for one reason or another - so how can they be cohesive.
Bottom line is that players have for years shown they cannot follow instruction, don't have the smarts to adjust in game and treat off the ball effort as optional. He is trying to break that and they are proving very resistant. Personally I can't see how you can achieve what he wants with Casemiro and Bruno and sub optimal wingbacks.
