Covstu
Well-Known Member
Caught napping really? Interesting Gillingham put their most attacking player McGlashan against him? He normally plays on the opposite wing. The Gillingham tactic here was clear, one to try and expose Haynes when attacking and also to try and nullify that attacking instinct by making him defend. But they changed their positioning not us, a great compliment. Haynes tee'd up a goal McGlashan didn't, another night it might have been different..but that night Haynes won.
This meant Reda Johnson, an experienced player and our captain, was tasked with covering his ass, along with ONeill and Fleck. As Pressley has clearly stated you have to be flexible, but not at the detriment to our strengths. Haynes main responsibility is to attack and try and make the opposition to defend him. Yes he must defend and he does, but his priority is to give us an attacking force.
This was my point on a previous post, if we are playing him as a wing back then we need adequate cover there. On another night or a better team we would have conceded, even Gillingham seen the gap down that side. This is nothing against Haynes, its about getting the right balance unless we are going for the 'you score one we score two' tactic of last year but sadly we no longer have the firepower for that.