| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… 21:58 - Mar 5 with 2534 views | TomTheWriter |
Posted this on Twitter, so thought i’d do the same here.
Countless stats can be cited to show the📈under KMc at Ipswich
Clean sheets, wins, PPG, forward passing.
However, for me, this is the most impressive⬇ï¸
13 Games, 5 Conceded. 0 goals scored by recognised ST’s. Donacien, Woolfenden and Edmundson are taking the obvious goal threats out of the game...
In the 12 (Gills x2) different opponents we have faced under McKenna, we have come up against 12 strikers whose goal tallies come to 117 goals this season. 117!
I've not seen a defence remove strikers from games like these three have done so far
Woolfy. Janoi. Fridge👠|  |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:05 - Mar 5 with 2392 views | LeoMuff |
Let’s hope we can keep this back 4 together along with Burns , as clubs up the food chain will be sniffing. |  |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:08 - Mar 5 with 2362 views | Veggie |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:05 - Mar 5 by LeoMuff |
Let’s hope we can keep this back 4 together along with Burns , as clubs up the food chain will be sniffing. |
If we lose any of them I think KMc would be able to identify and coach players to replace them |  | | |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:12 - Mar 5 with 2336 views | LeoMuff |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:08 - Mar 5 by Veggie |
If we lose any of them I think KMc would be able to identify and coach players to replace them |
Hopefully, though it’s a bit of an unknown on the identify players front - from January I’m not sold on Thompson at all, though Bakinson looks decent. | |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:17 - Mar 5 with 2293 views | Coastalblue |
I've always felt Donacien got a raw deal from virtually the moment he walked into the building, delighted to see the way it's turning out for him.
I was expecting at least one snarky comment about KMc doing the same to our strikers. |  |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:27 - Mar 5 with 2208 views | LeoMuff |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:17 - Mar 5 by Coastalblue |
I've always felt Donacien got a raw deal from virtually the moment he walked into the building, delighted to see the way it's turning out for him.
I was expecting at least one snarky comment about KMc doing the same to our strikers. |
He looks the best of that back 3 for me, great going forward and very hard to beat defensively. I always thought their was a player there, but not as good as this. | |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 09:05 - Mar 6 with 1557 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:12 - Mar 5 by LeoMuff |
Hopefully, though it’s a bit of an unknown on the identify players front - from January I’m not sold on Thompson at all, though Bakinson looks decent. |
January is a daft window to judge by. |  |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 09:12 - Mar 6 with 1521 views | strikalite |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:27 - Mar 5 by LeoMuff |
He looks the best of that back 3 for me, great going forward and very hard to beat defensively. I always thought their was a player there, but not as good as this. |
As long as he plays on the right of the three, I hope to god he never plays on the left side again, even with injuries, hopefully McKenna has worked this out without actually seeing it within a game.. |  | | |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 09:21 - Mar 6 with 1478 views | ArnieM |
Don’t think it’s as simple as saying the back three are taking the opposition strikers out of the game.
Defence starts in attack. Jackson’s closing down for instance. Morsys strength in midfield .
Effective Defence is a team game . |  |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 09:32 - Mar 6 with 1429 views | Wacko |
It's not just opposition strikers that are seemingly being taken out of the game... |  |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 09:39 - Mar 6 with 1392 views | LeoMuff |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 09:05 - Mar 6 by Marshalls_Mullet |
January is a daft window to judge by. |
Of course,but it’s all we have at the moment | |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 10:19 - Mar 6 with 1294 views | TomTheWriter |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 09:21 - Mar 6 by ArnieM |
Don’t think it’s as simple as saying the back three are taking the opposition strikers out of the game.
Defence starts in attack. Jackson’s closing down for instance. Morsys strength in midfield .
Effective Defence is a team game . |
I can understand what you mean, but for me Jackson’s closing down and Morsy’s strength is what prevents the defence from getting the ball into the feet of the strikers. It’s not what prevents the strikers from getting a shot in on goal.
Strikers are trained to snap up loose balls, push defenders around to gain space for even the slightest sight of goal. It feels like we are preventing League One seasoned strikers from even getting a chance to test Walton. Alfie May scored four goals against Wycombe, can’t even remember him having a shot in 90 minutes against us.
For me, the defence has gotten ‘meaner’ as weird as that might be too say. Not getting niggly kicks, losing the man. Staying compact and composed under pressure. Long may that continue | |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 10:23 - Mar 6 with 1278 views | Hullblue |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 10:19 - Mar 6 by TomTheWriter |
I can understand what you mean, but for me Jackson’s closing down and Morsy’s strength is what prevents the defence from getting the ball into the feet of the strikers. It’s not what prevents the strikers from getting a shot in on goal.
Strikers are trained to snap up loose balls, push defenders around to gain space for even the slightest sight of goal. It feels like we are preventing League One seasoned strikers from even getting a chance to test Walton. Alfie May scored four goals against Wycombe, can’t even remember him having a shot in 90 minutes against us.
For me, the defence has gotten ‘meaner’ as weird as that might be too say. Not getting niggly kicks, losing the man. Staying compact and composed under pressure. Long may that continue |
You’re right that they’re defending brilliantly but it is much simpler now that we keep the ball so much. They simply have much less defending to do than they did earlier in the season.
So many were calling for a big, ugly centre half when we couldn’t stop shipping goals. But the answer was just to play in the opposition’s half instead. |  |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 10:36 - Mar 6 with 1252 views | FoghornGleghorn |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 10:43 - Mar 6 with 1226 views | ArnieM |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 10:36 - Mar 6 by FoghornGleghorn |
coughcoughWALTONcough |
That’s when opponents do finally get a shot off - yes , last line of defence is pretty good innit ! | |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 11:28 - Mar 6 with 1146 views | blueislander |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:12 - Mar 5 by LeoMuff |
Hopefully, though it’s a bit of an unknown on the identify players front - from January I’m not sold on Thompson at all, though Bakinson looks decent. |
The signing of Thompson was rather an emergency given the injuries we had left side. Having said that I think he is pretty decent, and a player who is reacting well to McKenna’s coaching. | | | |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 11:43 - Mar 6 with 1098 views | TomTheWriter |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 10:23 - Mar 6 by Hullblue |
You’re right that they’re defending brilliantly but it is much simpler now that we keep the ball so much. They simply have much less defending to do than they did earlier in the season.
So many were calling for a big, ugly centre half when we couldn’t stop shipping goals. But the answer was just to play in the opposition’s half instead. |
One thing that has been really impressive compared to the beginning of the season is that both McKenna and Cook wanted to keep the ball, and usually the defence has nothing to do for the majority of the game.
However, the one key difference is that it feels like a defence is more ‘tuned-in’ under McKenna then they were under Cook. We always talk about Woolfy being laid-back, composed and all that. That’s good, but was a detriment in the past because he was never alert to danger. We’d get countered on after a long spell of possession, and it never felt like the defence was ready for it.
Now, under McKenna, they are keeping their cool and always staying alert for 90 minutes. They’ll be times under KMc that the defence doesn’t touch the ball because was are playing so high up the pitch, but I have so much confidence in Janoi/Wolf/Edmundson to clean up the danger when it comes out of nowhere and tests their concentration. A really good attribute for us to have | |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 11:46 - Mar 6 with 1081 views | suffolkpoker |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 22:12 - Mar 5 by LeoMuff |
Hopefully, though it’s a bit of an unknown on the identify players front - from January I’m not sold on Thompson at all, though Bakinson looks decent. |
Blimey, you can’t judge a managers new players on just the a January window. Especially when the objective was to down size the squad. |  |
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| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 12:06 - Mar 6 with 996 views | Darth_Koont |
| Most Impressive McKenna Stat imo… on 10:23 - Mar 6 by Hullblue |
You’re right that they’re defending brilliantly but it is much simpler now that we keep the ball so much. They simply have much less defending to do than they did earlier in the season.
So many were calling for a big, ugly centre half when we couldn’t stop shipping goals. But the answer was just to play in the opposition’s half instead. |
A bit chicken and egg, I think. The reason we have a lot of possession (frequently held by the 3 CBs and Walton or fed back to them to shift the point of attack) is also because the extra body/bodies in defence tends to shut down passing options and prevent the opposition from building much possession of their own.
So I think it’s as much our ability to stifle the opposition and quickly snuff out attacks as us keeping the ball and passing it around. We certainly don’t camp in the opposition half with the ball – when we get there our attacks are normally quite quick rather than trying to retain and recycle the ball. |  |
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