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Blue in the Face
I've seen both Woodburn and Roberts play a fair few times and they are nowhere near ready for international football. It could do as much bad as good to throw them into the limelight too soon.
The OP makes a good point about the risk averse nature of the change of formation once Georgia equalised. Coleman got it wrong for once and I feel he made a hot blooded descision. Also, when we changed to four at the back, the full backs bombed on way too much as if they were still wing backs. This in turn threw Chester and Williams off positionally when they kept catching is on the break. I feel bad for the subs as they were where thrown into the fire a little and no one seemed to no exactly what Coleman wanted. I think the manager needs to take the flak here.
A new phenomenon for Wales is we are getting caught out by the opposition in ways which we wouldn't have a year ago. In the last two games we've been getting done by basic through balls and crosses over the top and chucked in behind because we're now playing a much higher line against good opposition. Perhaps we need to revert back to being a bit more of a boring and conservative outfit.
Perhaps our success is biting us in the butt a bit now? The home pressure to attack attack attack actually could even work against us.
This group is much tougher than a lot of folks realise. The fact that Georgia are supposed to be one of the minnows shows how high the standard is and how we didn't really have the best of luck with the draw as a pot one team. On the upside, there are no world class teams in our group. Without injuries, we can beat any team home or away. If we qualify out of this it will be a phenomenal achievement.
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