Can I give you half a like for that post?
There’s a lot of good stuff…and some rubbish, too. I would provide a detailed response, but I’ve been down the pub all day.
Besides: real Goths don’t need to justify.
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Only if your pub’s DJ is playing The Sisters of Mercy tonight!
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And per WhoScored, as a whole the Reds have been dribbled past more times (413) than any other team across Europe’s top five leagues this campaign.
Jusr read this and thought I would put it in here.
I have mentioned in many threads that our players over commit then get beaten easily and for me it is a stat that needs to change, we have to learn how to slow down a team in transition and that isn’t by fouling, and also be aware what happens as an individual if we get dribbled past.
I think this is down to coaching as it happens to all our midfielders and also some of our defenders. Pressing isn’t the only way to win possession.
Hopefully our new coach changes this aspect of our game without killing the intensity.
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Only the 413 times? Can’t recall 1.
Real pubs don’t have disc jockeys.
Sorry, but Baijetic is not a game-changer, and what we need right now is a game-changing defensive midfielder like Fabinho 5 years ago, with Endo and/or Baijetic being back-ups.
Short term memory loss must be debilitating.
It literally happened 2 days ago
Won’t ever know how good Bajcetic can become if we don’t play him enough.
I wouldn’t mind another DM though.
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Fabinho type player isn’t what we need, we need a player that can combine the defensive duties with being able to progress the ball.
We need a DM and CB, but the biggest change in defence is going to come (or not) from how AS sets us up. We need big changes here, be less open and more compact. My thoughts about our PL winning year was that for much of the season we were impervious, but we also were quite ‘boring’… For a JK team.
I want to see more of that side of us. The ease with which we conceded throughout this season, and particularly how early in the match, was quite monotonous. That needs to change.
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Konate looks to be jerking himself off
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Gotta feed the geese to keep the blood flowing, keep the rhythm below the belt.
Poor Quansah…
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Need to start defending better again. And of course, this is a matter for the whole team, from back to front, not only the defence. Virgil was fuming last night and rightly so. We needed better game management (especially after we managed to turn it around with 10 or so minutes to go), regardless of the discussion about subs, who, when, etc. You want to do a bit better than conceding a goal per game in the league so far.
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It’s fast becoming a big concern. Last night was quite simply unacceptable and it wasn’t just because TAA had a nightmarish game. Their equaliser was almost a carbon copy of Leicester’s first. The cheap giveaways after Salah’s penalty were reminiscent of what happened at Newcastle after taking the lead. The same mental mistakes keep happening again and again and the whole team is culpable.
Either we remember how to control a game and defend, or we can forget about the title and the CL. Needing to score 2 and 3 goals consistently in order to get 3 points is not viable in the long run.
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When you get a high profile player like TAA playing as badly as he did last night it makes the whole team nervous. It is worse than playing with 10 men, with 10 at least you know where you stand .
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It took a couple of games to get right, but we were very tight defensively at the beginning of the season. There wasn’t much rotation at that point. I think recently that we have had more turnover in defence, through necessity of players being missing and also players who are possibly not 100% fit having to fill in.
You can combine that with teams having chance to watch Slot’s tactics and pick up on the chinks in the armour.
We now have our first choice centre backs fit, and with Bradley and Tsimikas fit again, we do have the option to rest and/or replace Trent and Robbo if needed.
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The two of you are making far too much sense. You need to kneejerk a little more…
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Oh, I’ll save that for when we take Accrington for granted and it all goes tits up.
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