Jamesimus
Well-Known Member
I will preface this by stating I know only a small amount about football and also I am very much not ‘Robins out’.
But last night, despite winning the recent games with a new (ish) plan / formation I personally thought it was a bit arrogant to go in to the Derby game with the same again (I realise a few things were different, but largely the same).
I know very little about football, but I did assume Derby would come here and play a low block. Credit to them they did it very well; they did so many things I haven’t seen us do almost ever. We didn’t even play the way they did when we first came up to the Championship! It’s terrible to watch but it’s effective in some situations. Where is our pragmatism / ability to do things like that at Leeds away for example?
Was clear to me technical ability of our players far exceeded Derby (with the exception of Lati and BTA…). At least two of their defenders could barely control a football (the midfielder Goudmijn or however it’s spelled being the exception for them).
They knew if the wind favoured them in one half, they’d nick a goal against our porous defence. I bet they don’t play like that all the time - I bet they tweaked things to get a result against us. We don’t do that enough. Oxford should have played like this in their game against us imo.
I largely expected us to be 4 at the back with a 3 man midfield, Wright left, Sakamoto right, BTA central and we only got close to that near the end.
*Too long didn’t read - ‘man angry at our inability to be pragmatic’
But last night, despite winning the recent games with a new (ish) plan / formation I personally thought it was a bit arrogant to go in to the Derby game with the same again (I realise a few things were different, but largely the same).
I know very little about football, but I did assume Derby would come here and play a low block. Credit to them they did it very well; they did so many things I haven’t seen us do almost ever. We didn’t even play the way they did when we first came up to the Championship! It’s terrible to watch but it’s effective in some situations. Where is our pragmatism / ability to do things like that at Leeds away for example?
Was clear to me technical ability of our players far exceeded Derby (with the exception of Lati and BTA…). At least two of their defenders could barely control a football (the midfielder Goudmijn or however it’s spelled being the exception for them).
They knew if the wind favoured them in one half, they’d nick a goal against our porous defence. I bet they don’t play like that all the time - I bet they tweaked things to get a result against us. We don’t do that enough. Oxford should have played like this in their game against us imo.
I largely expected us to be 4 at the back with a 3 man midfield, Wright left, Sakamoto right, BTA central and we only got close to that near the end.
*Too long didn’t read - ‘man angry at our inability to be pragmatic’