Spinal Wheels
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After returning home from the game late yesterday afternoon, I did something I never normally do if we lose & watched my Sky Sports recording of the game. Well at least their three goals against us.
They'd obviously worked out many weeks ago that our main weakness was often set pieces or good balls into the box, even more so now Dunk was going to be missing. They seem to have a team of giants especially the five at the back.
Just like Bournemouth did against Man Utd last weekend, they must have been practicing set pieces hundreds of times in the days leading up to the game. If you study them closely, clearly every player moment is planned in detail. In fact they would have scored from one more had it not been for a fine save by Stockdale. Ok perhaps they were lucky at least two came off so successfully, but obviously all their really hard work leading up to the game paid off big time.
They also knew that should they score the first goal of the game as they have in so many of their games so far this season, with that amazingly organised defence of theirs they were pretty much home & dry in going on to winning the game.
They are a strong excellent side Boro who will clearly go on to gain automatic promotion this season if they escape the horrendous injury problems we've had recently, They've shown every other promotion challaging team that they are by far the best team in this league, but with the money they've spent in the summer I suppose they should be. I do think though we may well have have given them a much tougher game had we played them in the first six weeks of the season when I think we looked at our most dangerous. But good luck to Boro, even though they've stopped our unbeaten run, no one can really complain when you lose to a much better side on the day.
They'd obviously worked out many weeks ago that our main weakness was often set pieces or good balls into the box, even more so now Dunk was going to be missing. They seem to have a team of giants especially the five at the back.
Just like Bournemouth did against Man Utd last weekend, they must have been practicing set pieces hundreds of times in the days leading up to the game. If you study them closely, clearly every player moment is planned in detail. In fact they would have scored from one more had it not been for a fine save by Stockdale. Ok perhaps they were lucky at least two came off so successfully, but obviously all their really hard work leading up to the game paid off big time.
They also knew that should they score the first goal of the game as they have in so many of their games so far this season, with that amazingly organised defence of theirs they were pretty much home & dry in going on to winning the game.
They are a strong excellent side Boro who will clearly go on to gain automatic promotion this season if they escape the horrendous injury problems we've had recently, They've shown every other promotion challaging team that they are by far the best team in this league, but with the money they've spent in the summer I suppose they should be. I do think though we may well have have given them a much tougher game had we played them in the first six weeks of the season when I think we looked at our most dangerous. But good luck to Boro, even though they've stopped our unbeaten run, no one can really complain when you lose to a much better side on the day.