Bilic wants his watfordfc team to strike the right balance
The need to have flair but also do what he described as the “dirty jobs” is the balance Slaven Bilic is trying to strike with his Watford team.
“But I heard a pundit say during the World Cup that in modern football, it’s usually impossible to have one-sided games. The game lasts 90 minutes and if in those 90 minutes you are only good on the ball, then you are going to get into problems. “I actually get more excited when players like Sarr, Pedro, Davis, go and do the dirty work. I expect them to be good on the ball. But what good teams are about is when the players, who are not really used to or even pleased to, do those dirty jobs.“We know that we have players who will create space and get the ball into good positions, and we know they will beat players. But that alone is not enough to win football games. Sometimes it might be, but in the long run it isn’t.
“We knew he would get through 45 minutes, and then with the half-time break you can do another 10 or 15 minutes. That was always in my mind that he would play maximum 60 minutes, but he was better at the start of the second half than he was in the first half, so that’s why we delayed it as long as we did.
“He got a chance against Hull because of injuries and I had no worries putting him into the team. He deserved it. He was excellent against Hull, and again today.
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