3 of our 5 remaining games left at home, Bale hopefully getting regular games away from Madrid - enough with all the doom and gloom and support your country!
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3 of our 5 remaining games left at home, Bale hopefully getting regular games away from Madrid - enough with all the doom and gloom and support your country!
We've gone from being solid at the back, lacking goals to still lacking goals, but conceding for fun too. The shape is all wrong, the front 4 look like they've got no idea what they're doing and Allen is left with trying to knit it all together. Reminds me of Trollope's City, decent players with absolutely no idea what they're supposed to be doing.
He has cost us crucial goals in successive games. He doesn’t start regularly in a weak top flight. Why is he playing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
Yep. The shape and formation just don’t work and our opponents get behind us far too often.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Let's just pass the ball around the defence and then either pass it to Allen or lump it to DJ. Great. We can't play Matt Smith in a 2 at the moment either, the midfield is a non entity when he's in it defensively. He's young and I like him, but he was horrendous tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
He is crap,Bale looks shell shocked after his last season,Allen was the best player in a Welsh shirt.Can only get better:wales:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
I'll always support my country and always will, through thick and usually thin. We have got the best generation of talented Welsh footballers in my lifetime of watching Wales play, which is 50 years. Sadly we have a shite manager!Quote:
Originally Posted by bluesp
We're going to have to win at least 4 of them, and hope Croatia run away with the group.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluesp
Left with a mountain to climb. Minimum of 5-6 wins needed from the remaining 7 fixtures to figure any chance of finishing in the top 2.
The game was there for the taking. Bale fluffed his lines, but defensively all wrong. It's horrendous that so much of our possession is with the defence. We're relying on them to tick the ball over and pick a pass into midfield. All the whole heaping pressure on a centre back pairing that simply does not work. Lawrence looked all at sea and we all know Williams is passed his best.
Bale looks like a man who is playing without confidence. Brooks looked unfit and struggling to put a stamp on the game. Only bright spark was via James who looked a threat throughout.
Got to hope now that we have a fully fit squad available for Sep, Oct and Nov to stand any chance of figuring in the top 2 picture.
In Giggs defence he doesn’t have a world class Gareth Bale. Coleman was very fortunate in that respect. Hungary beating Croatia has done us no favours.
Can anybody tell me what the system is? I’m at a loss after the 2 games. Our midfield have been static when receiving the ball and were pressing but not getting many decisive challenges in that turned possession in our favour. It feels a little like Paul Trollope at Cardiff to me in that I spend all game scratching my head.
The only game that worries me is Slovakia away, all the others are very winnableQuote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
S4C saying the Wales team are still in the dressing room rather than doing interviews
Hopefully they're giving Giggs a good bollocking
Based on the last 2 performances, can you seriously see us winning 4 including Croatia?Quote:
Originally Posted by bluesp
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Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Who knows but I’m a positive thinker so I’m expecting an improvementQuote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Looking at Northern Ireland’s squad, I wouldn’t have fancied them to win any of those games
When did we forget how to defend corners?
There is optimism and there is delusion.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluesp
When we qualified for Euro 16 it was built off solid foundations. We had Belgium and Bosnia in that group who are the equal of the teams in this group. We lost just one qualifier in ten games and barely conceded. This time around we have already lost two and get defensively stretched far too easily. The goals we have conceded have been so poor.
Have a decent manager in O Neil unlike us:frown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grangenders
A decent experienced, wise old head of a manger would put his arm around Bale and instill confidence in him, to play and be at his best for his country. I'm sure Warnock would! The charisma free zone that is Giggs, couldn't instill confidence in a team of under 5sQuote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
I’d take Coleman back tomorrow
we need to go to a 3.5.2 system, put Ampudu at the middle of the 3 defenders. Smith and Allen in midfield, James and Brooks on the wings, Ramsey no 10 with Bale and Lawrence up front. Our midfield hasnt worked in either game.
Whether it be Ramsey or not, we need a classical number ten type to knit things together - we have so much attacking talent coming through, but, for now at least, they are all individualists and so they're almost working against each other, rather than as a unit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhiwbina Blues
No Ramsey.
Bale a shadow of the player he was.
Thats our 2 even close to world class players gone.
Thats it.