Tat's should have scored but strangely shot narrowly wide the only one that possibly beat the goalie hit the corner of the frame unlucky,MVE.
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Tat's should have scored but strangely shot narrowly wide the only one that possibly beat the goalie hit the corner of the frame unlucky,MVE.Solid enough performance if a little meh I guess. But….
Seem to have carried on from last year with no goals and it not looking like our strikers will actually be the ones that score them.
Why does every attack and perceived chance to score a goal have to come from a cross near to the corner flag. If it’s obvious to us folks in the stands it’s going to be obvious to the opposition.
I’m also unsure whether we actually made Hull appear better than they were. I guess that’ll question will be answered in a few weeks when both teams have a few more games under their belts.
This is a fair point. The formation / style is too predictable and formulaic. Another number 10 or inside forward on the right would be useful. But as we have a wealth of strikers it feels we need to play 2 up top - think Simms and another works.A new striker does absolutely nothing to solve that. It's the same shit build up that is too predictable. A new forward comes in and would look exactly the same trying to win headers against two massive centre halfs every week
But really can’t shake the idea that the tactics we have are just very easy to defend against.
Yeah exactly because we don't have the playersWhen do we ever play the ball early into the channels? Our style of play is completely different now, we used to be one of the fastest teams going from one end to the other, we're the opposite now.
I just don’t see any of our strikers as lone striker against teams sitting deep and still think wright is more effective coming in from the left where he gets more space and can bully full back. Appreciate he’s not fully up to speed yet though
But as we have a wealth of strikers it feels we need to play 2 up top - think Simms and another works.
Not that far wrong....I know except for the Simms but, but we all have fantasiesTough, scrappy game. Neither side impress. Unimpressive lack of speed in transition from defence, despite Rushworth's best efforts. 2nd half improvement as Frank gives them a kick up the arse. Things improve further when Torp and Simms come on in the 70th minute. Late winner from Simms
Something like that anyway...
Howard Webb saying more physicality to be allowed this season. Let's hope that's true
Sheaf injured. Pathetic
But it's the same setup as the latter part of last season. And it's not that difficult to negate.After one game?
Got to agree with most of that. Just stinks to be in control of matches and not find a way to win. Reminds me of end of last season.Not too downhearted about today.
We were in control of the match. Thought we were good for the first 60 mins but then started to run out of ideas, and Hull started the time wasting.
Saka looked knackered after 70 mins but no Rodrigues, and I think we now know for sure that Simms is not in Frank’s plans. He’ll be gone by the end of the month.
We need a striker and winger by the end of the month.
I would sack Lampard, what was DK thinking with that.the issue we have is teams know how to set up against us as we are too predictable
what have they been doing in training all summer?
identical to last season
No plan b
if you are an opposing manager, you have the easiest job scouting us
we are so slow in the final third
30+ crosses and how many did get on the end? Not many
Is it too late to get a refund on my season ticket? Not sure I could stand a year of Southgate-ballBits of our play in possession today reminded me of two really good England teams, one with Lampard in it and the one managed by Gareth Southgate.
100%I've said it before, but our biggest issue is the pace we play at.
We play so slowly and telegraph every pass and move which makes everything way too predictable.
Against Betis there was a short period where we upped the tempo and started playing some quick passes and moving the ball around quickly and we looked properly difficult to deal with.. but we only did it once for about 40 seconds. I just don't understand why we barely ever play like that.
Yea, that was our problem last season. Neat and tidy but we struggle to make bonafide clear cut chances, that said I liked that Saka was cutting in and getting shots from the edge of the box off. The first one must have been inches away. Hull looked a poor side, two of their CBs were absolute carthorses. It definitely feels like two points dropped.Don't remember us having any clear chances and the match stats back that up (xG < 1). New signings or not, we've got to find a way to play that makes better chances. All the crosses feel hit and hope.
You'd expect if this is the plan, that we'd be laser focused on whoever's out wide looking to cross has their head up and aims to pick someone out but I never see that. It's frustrating as hell and I don't get it.
Yea, that was our problem last season. Neat and tidy but we struggle to make bonafide clear cut chances, that said I liked that Saka was cutting in and getting shots from the edge of the box off. The first one must have been inches away. Hull looked a poor side, two of their CBs were absolute carthorses. It definitely feels like two points dropped.
On a positive note it was miles better than last seasons opener and we've got Wright to come in for BTA.
Some of their passing out from the back was comically bad 5 was OK actually the other one tho (Adjai?) good god.Harsh RE their cbs I thought they were superb and we would do well to get the lad were after.
Some of their passing out from the back was comically bad 5 was OK actually the other one tho (Adjai?) good god.
Some of their passing out from the back was comically bad 5 was OK actually the other one tho (Adjai?) good god.
Tbf Wright looked more likely to cause them issues. If fully fit I think he'd have caused them issues, he looked half a yard short when he came on.They were only up against BTA and Wright for God’s sake! U21’s would be able to deal with them, which is so damning on our ‘strikers’! Never looked like winning headers against the cbs
The one where torp played rudoni through was a good chance. In surprised it rated as so little xgDon't remember us having any clear chances and the match stats back that up (xG < 1). New signings or not, we've got to find a way to play that makes better chances. All the crosses feel hit and hope.
You'd expect if this is the plan, that we'd be laser focused on whoever's out wide looking to cross has their head up and aims to pick someone out but I never see that. It's frustrating as hell and I don't get it.
The one where torp played rudoni through was a good chance. In surprised it rated as so little xg.
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