Match Thread Wigan Match Thread (12 Viewers)

[steve101]

That was so drab. Lots of players are not on it. Wigan look a threat at set pieces. Need to up it two-fold second half. Think we should have started with Allen.

 

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[shmmeee]

Always aim right. How have people not learned this for kick it for a ticket?

 

[Finham]

Josh Ruffles Jnr? That aint right, Clive.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Very O'Hare performance. Busy, runs direct at defence, worries them... then passes to nobody.

Gyokeres quiet, the boy-God that is Sheaf has done OK.

All unremittingly average so far!

 

[Great_Expectations]

Disappointing first half but we aren’t playing badly. Wigan are doing a great job of shutting down space around their box so our movement needs to be a step up to break them down.

We’re dominating the ball but sort of going through the motions, we need to raise the tempo and pace on and off the ball.

I’m expecting an improved second half and for us to break them down.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Been a poor half really, but very difficult to break down a team with 10 behind the ball.

Need to play with a higher tempo if possible. As it is the slow build up is just allowing them to get back and in position.

Also SHOOOOOOOOOT

 

[Liquid Gold]

It’s like we don’t practice breaking teams down. They’re going to be happy to sit men behind the ball and hope for a set piece.

Need to stop floating balls in as well, whack em hard and at least hope for a corner.

That's a problem with having a CM in at RWB.

For all Kane's faults he'd be getting into better positions and testing their defence more with his crosses.

 

[Esoterica]

I think you'd give it 15 minutes after the break to see if the space opens up a bit as players start to tire. Then think about Allen and Kane for Palmer and Eccles around the hour mark.

When a team play like Wigan have you've got to be patient. The margin for error is tiny on these final balls when they defend deep and in tight banks of 4. The weight of the pass needs to be absolutely perfect too, to a) beat the back line and b) not over hit it to the keeper.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

That's a problem with having a CM in at RWB.

For all Kane's faults he'd be getting into better positions and testing their defence more with his crosses.

He would. I'd assume they wouldn't be giving him as much space as they have Eccles mind you.

 

[shmmeee]

Why

That's a problem with having a CM in at RWB.

For all Kane's faults he'd be getting into better positions and testing their defence more with his crosses.

It’s notnjust him O’Hare doesn’t too. How many goals have we scored from a cross above knee height? We haven’t got Dublin in his prime in the box.

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

We’re really struggling to break them down. Palmer has been poor, and O’Hare and Hamer’s final ball has badly let them down. Could still be 1-0 if Palmer had stuck that late chance away though. Confident we can find a break through in the second half.

 

[Liquid Gold]

He would. I'd assume they wouldn't be giving him as much space as they have Eccles mind you.

Which would be good no?

Means more space in the middle and the left.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

We’re really struggling to break them down. Palmer has been poor, and O’Hare and Hamer’s final ball has badly let them down. Could still be 1-0 if Palmer had stuck that late chance away though. Confident we can find a break through in the second half.

He seemed adamant it was a corner. Hard to tell from where we’re sat

 

[ccfc922]

Why


It’s notnjust him O’Hare doesn’t too. How many goals have we scored from a cross above knee height? We haven’t got Dublin in his prime in the box.

We struggle to find anyone in the box, regardless on the height of the ball tbf.

We tend to have 2/3 to aim for and always seem to find their sole defender.

 

[Frostie]

They're very well organised, need Palmer & O'Hare's movement off the ball to drag them around more & create spaces.
Ironically might be a game for Allen.

 

[covboy9]

I’m not convinced by Palmer

 

[Esoterica]

Whats that about? Cutting the socks.

Either he thinks he's Grealish or got a weird birth defect and breathes through his calves (not a video, again!):

 

[ccfc922]

He seemed adamant it was a corner. Hard to tell from where we’re sat

Just seen the reaction from him, seemed shocked it wasn't a corner which says it all.

 

[stupot07]

I think you'd give it 15 minutes after the break to see if the space opens up a bit as players start to tire. Then think about Allen and Kane for Palmer and Eccles around the hour mark.

When a team play like Wigan have you've got to be patient. The margin for error is tiny on these final balls when they defend deep and in tight banks of 4. The weight of the pass needs to be absolutely perfect too, to a) beat the back line and b) not over hit it to the keeper.

You have to be patient but you also have to play with tempo and movement. We've done neither.

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[ccfc922]

Either he thinks he's Grealish or got a weird birth defect and breathes through his calves (not a video, again!):
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I've seen a few players do it, just not sure of the reasoning?

 

[Otis]

Either he thinks he's Grealish or got a weird birth defect and breathes through his calves (not a video, again!):
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It's where he sticks his nicotine patches

 

[Offhegoes]

We’re looking reasonably solid at the back, and just need to keep the pressure on. Don’t see an obvious substitution at the moment.

 

[mark82]

We’re really struggling to break them down. Palmer has been poor, and O’Hare and Hamer’s final ball has badly let them down. Could still be 1-0 if Palmer had stuck that late chance away though. Confident we can find a break through in the second half.

Just seen replay, if he'd rolled it just to his right for Gyokeres would have been a certain goal.

Palmer was being pulled, but would have been a soft pen. Keeper got a finger on it though.

 

[OldBedrocker]

We’re really struggling to break them down. Palmer has been poor, and O’Hare and Hamer’s final ball has badly let them down. Could still be 1-0 if Palmer had stuck that late chance away though. Confident we can find a break through in the second half.

If it wasn’t a corner why were they all giving the defender high fives?

 

[OldBedrocker]

Eccles crosses are shite

 

[Esoterica]

I've seen a few players do it, just not sure of the reasoning?

Just reducing pressure on the calves and allowing better bloodflow/circulation.

 

[ccfc922]

How's that not a yellow on sheaf but sheafs was?

 

[mark82]

That was a much worse tackle than Sheaf's but no yellow.

Eccles crosses are shite

Bit harsh to say that one was.

 

[pusbccfc]

Some of the play is lovely

 

[ccfc922]

Gyokeres needs to pass more...

Also, Sheaf's long shot is woeful.

 

[Tommo1993]

Death, taxes and Sheaf having a poor shot.

 

[robbiekeane]

Someone had o hates shirt there

 

[Finham]

Just reducing pressure on the calves and allowing better bloodflow/circulation.

Centuries of socks holding our calves back...

 

[mark82]

O'Hare should go down there.

 

[robbiekeane]

Death, taxes and Sheaf having a poor shot.

That was rose