Not gonna waste my time on individual ratings. Whole team were rudderless and frankly, an embarrassment.
Only Willis and Haynes were anywhere near satisfactory.
Formation is clearly dire, we never got any width whatsoever in the attacking third. A common theme this season. SP must start playing players in their natural positions, for example:
Clarke at right back (in a 4)
Haynes at Left back (in a 4)
O'Brien at right midfield
Swanson left midfield
Webster & Tudgay on the bench!!!
Allsop 5
Clarke 4
Willis 6
Webster 6
Hines 5
Haynes 5
Fleck 4
Swanson 3
O'Brien 4
Tudgay 3
Jackson 3
It was awful
Allsop 5
Clarke 4
Willis 6
Webster 6
Hines 5
Haynes 5
Fleck 4
Swanson 3
O'Brien 4
Tudgay 3
Jackson 3
It was awful
Not sure where all these 7's are coming from?! Worst performance I've seen in a long time, bar 10 minutes were dominated start to finish.
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Well I think that's it in a nutshell. We all believe it was one of the worst ever performances in living memory and therefore I can't see how anyone deserved anything past a 6.
Allsop 4 - Disagree with the earlier poster about him not being at fault for the goals, first goal is a tap in from inside the 6 yard box, why isn't he coming to claim that? Doesn't come off his line, command his area or communicate effectively. His 'punch' straight to their player in the first half whilst under no pressure sums him up. Time for a change.
Clarke 6 - Not as bad as others make out, always the first to press but under utilised as an attacking outlet & this isn't his strength anyway. Decent defender but looks like a player filling in when at wing back.
Willis 6 - Been really impressive lately & won a lot in the air again but he gave away possession very dangerously on more than one occasion.
Webster 5 - Although he blamed Willis for the situation leading to the penalty it's his error in my opinion. He pushed up looking to play offside whilst Willis & Hines stayed. As the captain & senior member of that 3 he needs to command the situation.
Hines 6 - Pick of the back 3 for me. Won most things & looks quite composed.
Haynes 6 - 2 goal saving challenges that were the highlight of the match for City fans. Couple of decent balls in but static midfield/forwards don't help him. Bit naive defensively at times.
Swanson 4 - Bad day at the office but don't right him off, he hasn't had any run of games. Shocking first half, improved only slightly 2nd half.
Fleck 6 - Not his usual passing standard but no movement around him doesn't help.
O'Brien 6 - I felt his frustration. Was the only one really trying to make something happen but nothing came off.
Jackson 5 - No supply to work with. Get him the ball in behind to use his pace. Poor link up with Tudgay though & needs to protect the ball.
Tudgay 4 - Very small for a target man type but used to have great strength, jumping & heading & would bully defenders. No sign of that yesterday, or for us at all yet this season. Some very poor touches, short of pace & lacked awareness. I can see why Pressley chose him in Nouble's absence as hopefully a physical presence to complement Jackson's pace but showed none of it.
Comes to something when your MOTM only scores a 6, but Hines or O'Brien, just for effort.
Not sure where all these 7's are coming from?! Worst performance I've seen in a long time, bar 10 minutes were dominated start to finish.
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I only put two 7s as I think the two players didn't deserve to be playing in a side full of inept performances.
It was a fucking dire game mind. First game I've seen since we've been back at the Ricoh too!
I'll be there for the Crewe game...
I only put two 7s as I think the two players didn't deserve to be playing in a side full of inept performances.
It was a fucking dire game mind. First game I've seen since we've been back at the Ricoh too!
I'll be there for the Crewe game...
Fleck was poor, he was ok with his 10 yard side and back passes, but he couldn't have completed anymore than 10% of the forward passes he tried mainly because he took too long to choose his option (as Pressley said of the whole team), plus let their midfield run past him on a number of occasions, I can't remember him making a tackle all game.
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Completely forgot his poor tackling. Suppose you are right.
Where do we go from here? I'd like to say having Reda and Nouble back will help matters but only slightly.
I've really got no idea, they will help, but as I said earlier in this thread a 442 with fleck and Thomas in the centre would worry me, and the centre backs have largely been good this season because there's 3 of then, so always one of them to cover.
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I thought that Willis, Haynes and O'Brien (in that order) did OK.
We didn't look particularly troubled in defence, but with so many players back so much of the time, I guess we shouldn't.
For me, the biggest issue was that the front two couldn't hold the ball and they were so isolated from the rest of the team. It was one of those days where you pretty quickly felt that a free kick or corner would probably be the only way we could hope to score - although for that you need to win the odd attacking free kick or corner.....
i'm not sure that I can remember a previous home game where we didn't have a single serious attempt on goal.
It is ironic that this time last year when most people could not / would not attend, we were playing fast attacking football and now that we're back we seem to have gone to the other extreme.
I only put two 7s as I think the two players didn't deserve to be playing in a side full of inept performances.
It was a fucking dire game mind. First game I've seen since we've been back at the Ricoh too!
I'll be there for the Crewe game...
Agree with that - and would add that while at times the crowd could see Jordan Clarke with space on the right - a) our playesr seemed unable to find him quickly enough / or couldn't at all and b) He couldn't attack the defender when he had it (so pointless) - unlike their right winger, who offered a threat. Swanson (first half particularly left Haynes exposed by constantly drifting infield following the ball - hence lack of shape). Not sure if it's anything to do with the 'pressing' game, but at times, instead of keeping a good shape, players such as Swanson were scurrying around - conveying a general sense of aimlessness. The best teams do it with the purpose of winning the ball back quickly, so as to break up the opposition's play or catch them on the counter attack. We just looked like we were working hard, but without a plan when we did get the ballIf we couldn't release Haynes yesterday, there was no other outlet.
Just in case your eyes were playing tricks - we're playing Crewe away in 2 weeks (it's Crawley at the Ricoh next week)
time for 442!
Clarke and Haynes were pushed back as was Fleck to effectively we had a back 6 yesterday with no outlet!
Think we have to decent left sided players in Pugh and Haynes, play them both! put O'brien Right sided, with Clarke behind him!
Thing is who plays centre midfield?? Fleck Thomas Swanson all been poor! I think Finch has to be given a chance and maybe you play McQuoid in front of him in a Thorne like Diamond.....
Up top Frank and either Jackson or Miller then!
we need Johnson back his stupidness has affected the whole camp.....
So you would play as a 4-4-2:
Allsop
Clarke
Reda
Willis
Pugh
O'Brien
Fleck
Finch/Thomas/Swanson/Couibaly
Haynes
Nouble
Jackson/Miller/McQuoid
That could work.
I just noticed the stats, BBC is saying we had 51% possession. Is that right?
From what I recall the first 25 mins or so we hardly even touched the ball and in the 2nd half, as soon as they scored, they completely dominated and their fans were doing the Olé's and we were nowhere.
Only at the end when they sat back and just protected the lead and those first 6 or so mins at the start of the 2nd half, did we have any meaningful possession.
Very surprised if it was indeed 51%.
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