| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back 11:11 - Apr 15 with 1564 views | norfsufblue |
...last night? 100% hindsight from me there but honestly i just cant see why we didnt do the obvious... no need for 3 out and out centre backs and surprised we didn't rest Matusiwa because hes obviously feeling whatever his dead leg was/is. Taylor would almost certainly have been to strong for Dozzell( though ive always thought theres a good footballer in there somewhere). |  | | |  |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:22 - Apr 15 with 1514 views | tractorshark |
What I couldn’t understand was taking a right-back off in the second half, putting a right-back on at left-back and moving our centre-back to right-back.
That seemed an overly complicated switch. O’Shea was probably our best player last night but I didn’t understand that call.
McKenna used his subs last night like he was conceding the game and thinking about Sunday. |  | | |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:26 - Apr 15 with 1485 views | homer_123 |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:22 - Apr 15 by tractorshark |
What I couldn’t understand was taking a right-back off in the second half, putting a right-back on at left-back and moving our centre-back to right-back.
That seemed an overly complicated switch. O’Shea was probably our best player last night but I didn’t understand that call.
McKenna used his subs last night like he was conceding the game and thinking about Sunday. |
Just a small observation and it's not a pop at yourself.
It's interesting that a fair few fans moan about KM and how he uses his subs, predictable, always the same time etc. He does something different and he still cops it.
Does make me chuckle. |  |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:28 - Apr 15 with 1459 views | chicoazul |
Think McK was worried about their physicality and set pieces which if so, obviously turned out to be right. Furlong has a head injury at the moment which may have been affecting him. In hindsight it looked like one of the rare occasions that McK got the team selection and set up wrong. I agree with the total reshuffle of the defence being odd. |  |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:33 - Apr 15 with 1439 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:28 - Apr 15 by chicoazul |
Think McK was worried about their physicality and set pieces which if so, obviously turned out to be right. Furlong has a head injury at the moment which may have been affecting him. In hindsight it looked like one of the rare occasions that McK got the team selection and set up wrong. I agree with the total reshuffle of the defence being odd. |
If he was worried about that, he should have taught Hirst how to mark a player at a set piece. |  |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:42 - Apr 15 with 1390 views | tractorshark |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:26 - Apr 15 by homer_123 |
Just a small observation and it's not a pop at yourself.
It's interesting that a fair few fans moan about KM and how he uses his subs, predictable, always the same time etc. He does something different and he still cops it.
Does make me chuckle. |
No dig at McKenna, I’ll bow to his superior knowledge of football. I just didn’t understand that substitution and what benefit it could bring. Johnson is less effective on the left than he is on the right and we were changing a right-sided player.
For me, it brought very little change down the left, although the best cross of the night admittedly came from O’Shea.
Personally, I wouldn’t have left Hirst on for 90 minutes and would have put Akpom up there if he didn’t want to risk Azon. I would have also used Cajuste when it was crying out for someone to keep possession and find a pass in midfield.
But, like I say, McKenna knows more than me. There’s also the added factor that certain players looked tired last night, Furlong for instance, so we may not be party to all the information.
Jack Taylor staying on the bench all night tells you everything about Sunday’s starting midfield. | | | |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:52 - Apr 15 with 1323 views | JammyDodgerrr |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:22 - Apr 15 by tractorshark |
What I couldn’t understand was taking a right-back off in the second half, putting a right-back on at left-back and moving our centre-back to right-back.
That seemed an overly complicated switch. O’Shea was probably our best player last night but I didn’t understand that call.
McKenna used his subs last night like he was conceding the game and thinking about Sunday. |
I posted in the other thread that it's almost certain that's what he was doing. His comments post match even allude to the fact that he thought it was basically impossible to get back into the game at half time. He gave it ten minutes to play out and then made a decision to just minutes in the legs of players/rest a few.
If we were chasing the game properly, you'd take off Kipre, push Greaves back in and Johnson LW. You'd never leave Nunez on his own in the middle, you'd take off Hirst for Cajuste/Taylor and put Akpom at top. [Post edited 15 Apr 11:53]
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:59 - Apr 15 with 1283 views | Guthrum |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:33 - Apr 15 by Marshalls_Mullet |
If he was worried about that, he should have taught Hirst how to mark a player at a set piece. |
To be fair, Hirst is usually reasonably good at that. We have conceded very few from corners that I can remember this season. |  |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 12:04 - Apr 15 with 1231 views | BtreeBlueBlood |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:42 - Apr 15 by tractorshark |
No dig at McKenna, I’ll bow to his superior knowledge of football. I just didn’t understand that substitution and what benefit it could bring. Johnson is less effective on the left than he is on the right and we were changing a right-sided player.
For me, it brought very little change down the left, although the best cross of the night admittedly came from O’Shea.
Personally, I wouldn’t have left Hirst on for 90 minutes and would have put Akpom up there if he didn’t want to risk Azon. I would have also used Cajuste when it was crying out for someone to keep possession and find a pass in midfield.
But, like I say, McKenna knows more than me. There’s also the added factor that certain players looked tired last night, Furlong for instance, so we may not be party to all the information.
Jack Taylor staying on the bench all night tells you everything about Sunday’s starting midfield. |
Agreed with Johnson in right midfield- his best position for us!
Taylor looked annoyed when he had to sit down when Mataziwa came off!
2 down- why didn’t Walle play in the middle for a try like he does for Norway u21 - as nothing was clicking last night- how did it just fall apart like other away games? |  | | |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 12:17 - Apr 15 with 1192 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:59 - Apr 15 by Guthrum |
To be fair, Hirst is usually reasonably good at that. We have conceded very few from corners that I can remember this season. |
It just annoyed me how he didnt look at the ball once. | |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 12:32 - Apr 15 with 1146 views | Guthrum |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 12:17 - Apr 15 by Marshalls_Mullet |
It just annoyed me how he didnt look at the ball once. |
Altho it was letting the player he was watching escape which caused the problem. | |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 12:35 - Apr 15 with 1134 views | Bellevue_Blue |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:22 - Apr 15 by tractorshark |
What I couldn’t understand was taking a right-back off in the second half, putting a right-back on at left-back and moving our centre-back to right-back.
That seemed an overly complicated switch. O’Shea was probably our best player last night but I didn’t understand that call.
McKenna used his subs last night like he was conceding the game and thinking about Sunday. |
Darnell Furlong was having a bit of a stinker to be fair .. wasn't getting close to their winger who was toying with him towards the end of the 1st half.
Second goal all came from him being way too passive. | | | |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 12:38 - Apr 15 with 1124 views | Libero |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:33 - Apr 15 by Marshalls_Mullet |
If he was worried about that, he should have taught Hirst how to mark a player at a set piece. |
That was really poor, wasn't it? He appears to have on the whole, escaped without criticism too. |  | | |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 15:13 - Apr 15 with 967 views | OldFart71 |
Greaves has done well when playing FB, but he is after all a CB and we had an FB in Johnson so why not play him as I think it's almost certain that Leif will be back against Boro.
Seems strange to me as many had allured to the fact that Kipre had been a bit off the pace before his suspension.
By all means if KM had wanted to give him a run out to get his fitness levels up he could have taken Greaves off and put him alongside O'Shea for the last 20 minutes of a game that seemed lost a long time before then. | | | |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 17:12 - Apr 15 with 850 views | _CliveBaker_ |
Odd one. I thought Kipre would come in for Greaves in a straight swap as he appeared to be struggling at the end of the Norwich game, I definitely didn't seeing coming in with Greaves at LB. Makes no sense to me, if Greaves was fit to play I don't know why we would break up that partnership with O'Shea that played so well at Norwich. Johnson coming in for Davis as he has for 3 of the previous 4 makes a lot more sense to me, but maybe he had a knock himself. |  | | |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 17:27 - Apr 15 with 820 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 12:17 - Apr 15 by Marshalls_Mullet |
It just annoyed me how he didnt look at the ball once. |
Most players man marking at corners are firstly tasked with stopping their man. The ball’s incidental. |  |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 17:29 - Apr 15 with 817 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
With the OP here. It looked like an attempt to shoehorn Kipre in, who honestly looked well short of match sharpness.
I thought It was a universal understanding that you shouldn't interfere with a working central partnership, and Dara with Greaves has been great since Greaves came back in. |  |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 21:46 - Apr 15 with 693 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 12:35 - Apr 15 by Bellevue_Blue |
Darnell Furlong was having a bit of a stinker to be fair .. wasn't getting close to their winger who was toying with him towards the end of the 1st half.
Second goal all came from him being way too passive. |
He was very poor last night.
Johnson’s also not played a lot of minutes until recent weeks, so maybe he was suffering a bit heading into this one. Who knows? We don’t know how tiredness or niggles are affecting any of them. [Post edited 15 Apr 22:21]
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 05:52 - Apr 16 with 546 views | PioneerBlue |
Overall we are far less effective as an attacking power when Leif doesnt play. I know Greaves had one or two good games at LB but that doesnt make you a winner at Fratton Pk on a wet Tuesday night it seems. From the options we have, Ben Johnson LB all day long. | |
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| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:49 - Apr 16 with 442 views | solemio |
'revert back' is a tautology. | | | |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:52 - Apr 16 with 436 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Why didnt we just revert back to Johnson at left back on 11:49 - Apr 16 by solemio |
'revert back' is a tautology. |
True, but it’s past history now. | |
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