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Substitutions have been oversimplified by us fans. Every fanbase has this myth that their manager sucks at subs. They haven’t sat back to question this view and why they’d be wrong.
Sub analysis needs a lot of context.
What’s the physical state of the game? You can’t throw on ESR when Spurs, United have started running at you at 1-0. You sub on Tomiyasu.
What’s the score? Chasing the game or seeing it out. Is the sub better than the starter for what the objectives are? Will the sub ruin the flow of the game? Injuries. Is the player exhausted? Are we changing tactics? We are going long, sub on Kai, not ESR. Is their CAM running riot? Sub on a DM, not ESR.
Need creation with passing and control? Vieira, not Tierney.
High line, but incompetent attack? Sub on ESR, not Tomi. Too much logic. And a lot of other things.
There have been better names and tools off the bench at all times. It’s not a matter of “manager stubborn”, which in most cases comes out when a manager doesn’t sub on a crowd favourite.