| How else could we play? 06:58 - Dec 3 with 414 views | Axeldalai_lama |
If McKenna woke up this morning and ripped it all up and started again, or if hypothetically he was replaced, what could be done with this expensively assembled squad?
It all seems a bit of a mismatch in many ways, with lots of expensive wide players and full backs who aren't one thing or the other which would complicate a 4-4-2 and a 5-3-2.
We've got scarce options up front in reality, so two up top might be beyond us at present. Could there be a better way of utilising our central midfielders, seems some quality there but not really suiting the way we set up.
All very strange and frustrating, we do seem to have a decent amount of 'quality' but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to thread them all together and we're left with a bit of a mess. There must be a better way though. |  | | |  |
| How else could we play? on 07:20 - Dec 3 with 340 views | SaleAway |
We don't need to change the formation. We need to change the mindset.
Move the ball with pace. Take the positive options. Find space when we don't have the ball
We did it once they scored and suddenly started creating chances.
Don't need a massive change, just take the handbrake off. |  |
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| How else could we play? on 07:26 - Dec 3 with 306 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
For one thing we are so passive out of possession, where’s the aggressive and energetic press we had in our promotion season. There’s been a few goals we’ve leaked from the opposition pressing us, but at the other end we don’t seem to put that pressure on their defenders.
We aren’t a million miles off Martin-esque possession football with little end product. | | | |
| How else could we play? on 07:26 - Dec 3 with 303 views | Yallop2 |
Forget all that.
Beat Coventry and our title charge is on. COYB |  | | |
| How else could we play? on 08:09 - Dec 3 with 214 views | badadski |
We can play the way we play - it’s not the problem, its not mixing it up is- playing out from the back is now a mugs game and we are on a hiding to nothing by employing it . We don’t have the players to do it- we are inviting pressure to no gain as don’t have pacey enough players to break through the line once we have broken the press so invariably end up going backwards from midfield. It’s a small part of irony that our goal came from a last minute hoof and winning the second ball, moving it across the line and finding a play in space to shoot. It doesn’t need constant hoofing but my god it some times works and at a minimum means we are not risking losing the ball in a precarious position and giving away a goal through over playing it in midfield or at the back. | | | |
| How else could we play? on 09:32 - Dec 3 with 109 views | WeWereZombies |
| How else could we play? on 08:09 - Dec 3 by badadski |
We can play the way we play - it’s not the problem, its not mixing it up is- playing out from the back is now a mugs game and we are on a hiding to nothing by employing it . We don’t have the players to do it- we are inviting pressure to no gain as don’t have pacey enough players to break through the line once we have broken the press so invariably end up going backwards from midfield. It’s a small part of irony that our goal came from a last minute hoof and winning the second ball, moving it across the line and finding a play in space to shoot. It doesn’t need constant hoofing but my god it some times works and at a minimum means we are not risking losing the ball in a precarious position and giving away a goal through over playing it in midfield or at the back. |
I think it was one of the QPR commentators who described our playing out from the back as a bit 2024, before we scored but he had a point in a Loft For Words way. Opposition managers and teams will always catch up with a tactic and find solutions, that's why we are getting caught out more with persisting with the 'back to the goalie, out to a defender, spray it around, back to the goalie...and repeat' moves.
The other thing I would like to see changed is waiting until we are behind, Oxford being a prime example, before we go hell for leather attack. The first ten minutes is the time to do that, one or two goals up and we can display McKenna's masterplan of game control after that. It would be so much more comfortable to watch that from a winning position. |  |
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