JulianDarbyFTW
Well-Known Member
We've got a clean sheet record of 40% so far this season. It's not all doom and gloom.
We've got a clean sheet record of 40% so far this season. It's not all doom and gloom.
Greg Downs once scored a 30 yard volley straight in the corner
QPR?Cant remember that at all G, I couldn't' even remember him scoring for us...who was it against?
Cant remember that at all G, I couldn't' even remember him scoring for us...who was it against?
They both played against Derby.We only have two players capable of attacking them and winning them.Thomas and Kitching. Only one of them was on the pitch today at any given time. It showed.
I don't even understand that? If that's your interpretation, it's definitely not what I've said or intended.So now I want to blame Rushworth?
Lampard has had every chance to bring in his own person, especially over the summer, so it appears he's happy with what Aled is doing...Concentration is bred by discipline, it’ll improve. If Aled W is up to it…
Dead right. A little push before jumping here, a shirt tug there, just relentlessly.We got bullied until we made changes against a team who do all the pulling, pushing and falling over well.
The good thing about crowding the box as a defending team though, is that you are usually almost guaranteed a freekick.The reasoning behind cramming your own box is that it restricts space for the opposition and should make it easier to defend.
I’ve never agreed with this. A crowded box eliminates the goalkeeper’s ability to do anything other than stay on his line, while the defending players have to concentrate on a higher number of attacking ones, leading to a higher chance that someone will lose his marker or that players will get mixed up. Then, if you do win the ball in and clear it, you have nobody to contest the clearance so it’ll come straight back in to that same crowded box that’s if anything more disordered. We conceded a fair number in that manner last season and the season before.
I would suggest leaving 3 men up, one on either flank and the other in the centre, to force the opposition to bring players back. This then effectively removes 6 players from the box, and brings the keeper back into play as someone who can also help defend the area. You simplify the task for your own defending players as there are fewer attackers to worry about and people’s roles are themselves less complicated (no defending subsection 2B of the 6 yard box). Moreover you’re left with 8 players in the box defending against just 6, as opposed to 11 against 9. The net balance hasn’t changed.
If you get the ball clear you then also have a fair chance of setting up a counter or at least preventing the ball coming right in.
Better for both defending the set piece and hitting on the counter, I rest my case.
Mock stupid posts?
An average GK would have saved the only 2 shots on target. They would then have not scored 2 goals from set play.
The first one against Derby was a fluke. Free kick that's normally very difficult to score from directly is put in the net by a 30 year old scoring only his 4th goal in professional football. It went into the far top corner. Next 1 a penalty.
I know some people just love having a moan, but here we are in what's starting to look like our most exciting season ahead since the last century and here we go again with false facts. Nearly all our defenders attack. We're not trying to do a Burnley. We're trying to do a Leeds.
Captain?Jake Bidwell: Coventry City captain confident set-piece problems are an easy fix
Coventry City's tendency to concede from set-pieces this season is a relatively straightforward issue to fix, says captain Jake Bidwell.www.bbc.co.uk
BBC init!Captain?
He was captain for last night's game.Captain?
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