I wonder if some decide to support Sarri just because they don't like the Sarri-critics and don't want to admit they are right.
I can't imagine anyone watching the game against Frankfurt and thinking "yes this manager should lead us next season for sure".
We have gotten much better lately according to some of them, and yet we have won one out of our last five games. You can believe we have improved, but it's still nowhere near good enough.
That just gives absolutely no context to the point I made as I'm guessing the first line on the last paragraph was partly aimed at me.
When you are trying to build a completely new playing style you have to look at more than just the results in isolation. We win 1-0 with no shots and a last minute own goal excellent we have got the points, 3 ahead in the table but in terms of the building process a step back.
In terms of our build up play and speed of play, massive strides has been made since the winter period. Back then we were moaning because we couldn't create anything, now we are moaning because we keep wasting chances which suggest more are being created, we seem to move the ball a bit faster aswell. Now are we perfect? Nowhere near but it's to be expected, awful first half against Watford fantastic second, very good first half against Frankfurt crap second, crap game against Cardiff, excellent Vs West Ham, we are an inconsistent team right now and we are going to keep flip flopping from the good to the to the bad probably for the next year as we aren't building a results now project any more.
Also Napoli weren't actually that good to watch in Sarri's first season, they had similar games to some of our worst this but they had one major advantage, they had Gonzalo Higuain in the form of his career, we haven't had that luxury.
Now I have far from been blindly supporting Sarri and around February time I started to have doubts for these two reasons.
Squad management
Capiluating after setbacks
(I'm not and wasn't too worried about his supposed lack of flexibility regarding formations, changing formation on the spot being a good thing is an urban myth as Unai Emery is proving, all the top managers have a chosen formation and stick to it largely)
Both those faults he's improved on since then, he's rotated well in this run in and has only really overplayed Azpi and Jorginho while the last month or so we have reacted a lot better to set backs.....
Cardiff, Burnley, Frankfurt, United all points won from behind (well not points in Frankfurt but you know what I mean) something that would never have happened a few months back, heck even the response at Anfield after two down when Hazard hit the post twice was a positive in the grand scheme of things.
Now am I totally 100% convinced with Sarriball? No, but all things considered he deserves the benefit of the doubt, especially if the alternative is reverting back to pragmatism a way of football which is slowly dying a death at top level football, hence Mourinho's fall from grace.
