Game plan for tomorrow night

[Mike Small]

Man mark Foresteri or stop the ball getting to him by a centre back right up him. He will be the one to keep possession, get them up the pitch and waste time.

 

[BensGrandad]

Run at them with Skalak, Wilson and Baldock and when they are knackered bring on Murphy Lualua and Manu and run at them some more!!

Not so sure about Manu

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Forget formations, 10 men running after the ball like 5 year old's football, a swarm...all over them like bees, sorry been drinking again.

 

[MrSnuggles]

Not so sure about Manu

He's quick and may have something to prove! And he should be fresh!!

 

[Durlston]

Serve dodgy lasagne at the hotel the Wendy players are staying at tonight or tomorrow lunchtime.

 

[BensGrandad]

He's quick and may have something to prove! And he should be fresh!!

Has he had a shot at goal for either us or Huddersfield yet this season

 

[Codner's Wallop]

I really can't see Wednesday sitting back and playing a deep, defensive formation, in the hope of seeing out a 2-1 or 2-0 aggregate win. It's fanciful thinking. They're not going to be that naive. All managers know this is a recipe for disaster and against a pumped up Albion, with the crowd behind us, the chances of executing this strategy for a full 90 minutes is highly risky, borderline suicidal. I see Wednesday playing their normal game, with a steady tempo, shutting us down and moving the ball forward quickly to push us back. They will be desperate for an early goal and will no doubt seek out Hooper and Forestieri as soon as possible.

Albion on the other hand should make it a chaotic match, played at a lightning pace. This could disrupt Wednesday's flow. Every player has to push himself beyond his normal limits. That means Baldock chasing down every ball and keeping their back four pinned back. Even before the injury horror show, we failed to match Wednesday's workrate and their back four had far too much time on the ball. This won't happen again (surely??)

Albion's trump card is the fact we really have jack **** to lose. Even against Boro there was a hope we would pilfer a goal at the death but with 10 players run ragged, we didn't have the energy to throw the sink, more nudge it inch by inch.

Who knows, if Wednesday themselves go down to 10 in the early stages, it may get VERY interesting. VERY quickly.

 

[BensGrandad]

Our first aim has got to be to make Westwood work which we didnt at Hillsborough. Did he have a save to make?

 

[Caveman]

Lua lua needs to be getting shots away and on target.

 

[Mackenzie]

He always manages to win free kicks and draws yellow cards, and a yellow card can become red later.

Absolutely, with Skalak and Dunk in the team those free kicks could be priceless.

Play with pace tomorrow Brighton, run at them all night.

 

[jimhigham]

Really looking forward to tomorrow night. There is no pressure of expectation at all. I sense some Blitz Spirit and a defiant party coming on.

 

[Albion my Albion]

The game plan didn't work did it? We came at them with everything--attack, attack, attack--and Wednesday was able to hold on and score an official assisted goal. What other things could we have done?

I believe we should hang back and play incredible defence that will surprise them and have them fall back into a "comfort zone." In the second half we could then put on a full on attack-attack-attack that will surprise them and create a panic when the Owls thought they had it won in the first half. I think this will start yielding Albion goals and throw all the momentum behind us with a roaring and singing crowd. SW will not know how to respond.