It’s quite frightening when we can all see this as laymen in the stands, before it happens, often with warning salvo’s of the same opposition moves almost leading to goals, before the killer blow that does .... but the manager and players do nowt to adjust.
I saw this from the NS in the final 4...
On that last point, I’ve always said that about fullbacks, their no 1 job is to defend for 90 minutes. I’ve faced criticism from the Montoya fan club, who love the way he ventures forward, creating goal after goal. I’m backed on that by Lee Disin and Gary Neville, whenever they’re asked on TV...
Couldn’t agree with you more.
See my post somewhere on NSC tonight, where I quoted Mariappa of Watford, who are on a good run. Pearson has drummed into them about a traditional defensive shape when they haven’t got the ball.
My ideal defence would be:
New RB (in this window) Duffy Dunk Bernardo
That may lose some of the footballing genius of Webster and Burn, but it’s a back to defending basics set up,
It can only be because he’d be less accomplished at the intricate Tika Taka between Ryan, Dunk, Webster and Burn. They can keep it going for up to a minute at a time, until the high press scuppers it. With Duffy that very impressive time would be halved.
Plus Burn and Webster have created a...
FLAWED
For almost 3 years:
1. Where’s the RB with pace who can actually defend every match? Montoya’s loved by a few NSC’ers, but even Potter’s stopped playing him.
2, Strikers - nuff said.
3, Pace and power in CM for counter attacking, genuine pace out wide for counter attacking -...