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Positives - we are good today, 4-5-1 formation worked. Bowen and Ralls made a difference, the two full backs played well. And Giles was excellent. McCarthy promised changes and made them and they were pretty effective. I think we had about 30 shots.
Negatives - We have only won once at home this season, losing the last 4! Bacuna. We can't score. Mike Flynn could be our manager (God forbid!).
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Originally Posted by Rjk
4-1-4-1 to start and 4-4-2 to end.
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I think we had 4 players booked yet the main reason there was 10 minutes added time was due to Reading’s ridiculous time wasting but not a player booked, that doesn’t add up.
What exactly did the full-backs do well? Reading's goal came from Brown's poor header and neither of them offered anything in possession.Quote:
Originally Posted by cardiff55
The reality is that performance today was one of the best of the season and the problems today were indicative of a very poor transfer window, i.e. stripping out all width at wing and full back positions, and Mick's inability to play that kinda formation previously, rather than our recent form.
If we had played this kind of formation from the start of the season I think we would be well above mid table.
But when poor results started to come Mick, stupidly, stuck with a ultra defensive formation that continued to leak goals. And doubled down some again.
When a packed defense is not working, continuing to pack it seems insane. There was no outlet for the defense and the ball kept coming back to a already low on confidence leaky defense.
It was insanity that it took quite a few hammerings for that particular penny to drop.
But today was much better but did expose, again, our lack of guile, pace and cutting edge in the final third. An issue we have been banging on about since transfer deadline day (and before), when Mick and/or the board, decided to let our last remaining winger leave without replacing him.
Now that 10 defensive players and one striker isn't working for us, we have limited options.
I hope Mick stays with this formation and we catch a lucky break and get a few wins and draws before January. If the players can grow into this s formation and we can add a bit of pace and creativity in January, we will be fine.
If we don't then a relegation scrape is on the cards.
Lewj wasn't there today, just mentioned in another thread, my apologies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Think Yiadom's foot injury lasted about 5 or 6 minutes on it's own. Add all the subs and time wasting, 10 is about right.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
I thought it was a big improvement over previous games even though 0 points, hopefully MM will persevere with the ground based game
I have posted after a game though mate. Straight after Bournemouth in frustration the last time.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNDERHILL1927
Phones. They're a blinding invention. :-)
Ground based? I saw plenty of balls hoofed from deep midfield into the box when we could have got it out wide with one or two more passes and got a cross in, which is apparently a tactic of ours anyway?Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
I only watched the stream today, but thought it was the best we've played in a long time. I did wonder what we might have achieved playing NG and Bagan as fullbacks? Didn't understand Giles playing on the right, as he rarely cut inside to shoot, just crossed with his weaker foot. It was nice to Pack go and get the ball from the defence, rather than them hitting a hopeful long ball. I like what I've seen from McGuinness, would be nice to see him play centre back.
OK Dembe, with context maybe i should have said based on the previous offerings :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by dembethewarrior
Yes McGuiness played well today but he’s not a right back, play him at centre half instead of Nelson, who has been really out of form, and see what he can do thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Sparticus_Mills
Don't recall him misplacing a pass, always looking to get us going forward, was tenacious in midfield and generally looked pretty good all round the pitch. There was a noticeable decline when he and Ralls went offQuote:
Originally Posted by blue lewj
Fair enough. I thought he did well and could be one of the better youngsters coming through.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
I would just prefer they were being blooded on our and their terms. Not thrown in to a relegation battle but it is what it is I suppose.
Ha ha cheers mate. I'm always straight on here for the debrief, whilst waiting for my trainQuote:
Originally Posted by blue lewj
Attachment 4592 Shots from the match :facepalm:
:hehe: it was a definite improvement mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Most of the crosses that did come in from wide were poor anyway. And the set pieces.Quote:
Originally Posted by dembethewarrior
We did pass the ball around better yesterday but the passing wasn't resulting in us carving them open and creating clear chances. Yes we had 25 shots but were any of them clear cut chances. Crossing was also poor as was movement by the strikers; don't get me started on inverted wingers!
So yesterday was an improvement in many regards but it was a game we should have won because Reading were poor but it was a game where we didn't deserve to win because our final third was so poor.
I thought it was a tactic of ours though? So I didn't understand the hoofs from midway into their half into the box when we had a pass or 2nto get it out wide. I agree they weren't the best quality, I noticed Giles wasn't cutting back on to his left foot and crossing with his right, just play him on the other side!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by cardiff55
Spot on.Quote:
Originally Posted by PontBlue
Brown on the left standing still waiting for ball to feet rather than running beyond his man, not a criticism of him as he's not a natural player in the position, but it shows our limitations. Saw bowen making runs behind as well that were either slow to be spotted or weren't spotted at all because they probably aren't used to them sorts of runs being made so don't look for them.
Not bad. 2 goals from 27 shots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk