False9
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Yes I think they're well coached but the individual players are just quicker and sharper
The amount of times they picked the ball off us even when we made a good pass. The class and that extra split second in alertness and speed showed.
Thought Ao Tanaka was the most impressive despite his balloon shot early on. Took clever positions all over the pitch, great vision and range of passing and comfortable with the ball in deep and advanced positions.some times it wasn't even a bad pass, one less than perfect touch and they would swarm on our player
It did but on reflection given everything I sort of mehDidn't you say earlier this has ruined your week?!
Could sign him up for the Olympic Diving team as wellThought Ao Tanaka was the most impressive despite his balloon shot early on. Took clever positions all over the pitch, great vision and range of passing and comfortable with the ball in deep and advanced positions.
Really wanted us to sign him in the summer.
People really do forget how we defended with a 4 under Robins and Lampard before he switched to a 5, the 5 won us 5 in a row.Yeah we really held our own with a 5 tonight
James has pace but isn't very good .My two pence..
- such a high line was quite mind boggling given their pace upfront.
- Grimes will be class
- Leeds are levels above so I don’t worry too much about the result. Performance and particularly lack of urgency was disappointing though.
- If you had over 2.5 goals on any kind of bet tonight, you have my sincerest empathy. Should’ve been about 8-2
Thankfully we recognised that and gave him more opportunitiesJames has pace but isn't very good .
@Chicken McgrawLove the comment from Boosh on CWR that Raphael Borge Rodriguez gonna be bigger and better than Gyokeres
I’m freeeee!!! Only an hour after the game ended ffs
strange no pl took a chance on loaning him from spursSoloman is probably the best opposition player I’ve seen up there in many a year
Think Spurs could do a lot worse themselvesstrange no pl took a chance on loaning him from spurs
People really do forget how we defended with a 4 under Robins and Lampard before he switched to a 5, the 5 won us 5 in a row.
This is a bit of a trope now. We kept 3 clean sheets playing 4-2-3-1 under Lampard and he’s changed nearly half the starting 11.
If it was the exact same personnel in a new formation, I’d get the argument but it’s not.
Why we continued to play such a high line - often in their half, when they have speedy wingers each side was baffling. They caught us out every time, apart when the lino occassionally got it right.
Lucky not to concede 6-7 with the 1 on 1s.
We played the high line from 1st minute. Gave them encouragement to play through us every time.What else could we do being 2-0 down in the second half against a team that could keep the ball all day long.
I’m glad we had a go at them and it’s a shame we didn’t make them work for their first goals. Even so, if Simms header creeps in or that chance that hits the crossbar goes in, we had a chance to recover something from the game.
Go back and look at how Robins got on with this defence earlier in the season, and Lampard 2 goals a game. Switching to a 5 and having the defenders joint at the hip with our midfield positionally has drastically improved our overall performances, we can't help losing to Leeds, they literally could have won it 10-0 tonight.
We are no where near the promotion level whatsoever, I will never stop point out the fact our defence isn't good enough, but as a 5 we can forge something that may see us land top 6. We can't have it all, most clubs in this league are in the same boat and we mustn't forget that.
We played the high line from 1st minute. Gave them encouragement to play through us every time.
It was a case of Ange ball.
Context is everything Joe. We don’t give up as many chances in the second half if we’re not chasing the game. At that point, it was more important to score the next goal even if it risked conceding a goal or 2 more.
To the topic of formation, our defence since Lampard took over had ‘improved’ irrespective of the formation we played. We played 3-4-1-2 under MR and Carr and conceded many goals.
The formation wasn’t revolutionary, the key differentiator is the following personnel changes:
Allen > Eccles
Torp > Sheaf
Simms > Bassette
Kitching > Binks
BTA > Sakamoto
Dovin > Collins
The run where we conceded around 2 goals a game wasn’t because teams created lots of chances against us. At one point, we’d conceded 13 goals from 16-17 shots on target faced which is a statistical outlier and a rate that is unlikely to be maintained.
It also helps having a goalkeeper who can actually save the shots they face.
I hope you're right mate, I want us to do well, as do we all.
I think Kitching is decent but I don't rate any of the other 3 tbh, and I've constantly preached we go all out for Tanganga, as you have probably seen.
It's not doom and gloom, we've lost to a far better side, I just think 5 at the back we are stronger and so much harder to breakdown.
I do believe next season if we keep Wright and Milan we have everything set up to finish 5th or 6th, so like I said it's not doom and gloom, quite the opposite.
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