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Thread | Timing of goals
at 21:40 21 Dec 2024
47% of the goals we have conceded have come within the first 5 minutes of a half, or the last 5 minutes of a half (plus extra time). We were always going to concede this season, but it’s the timing of a lot of these goals that is really killing us. Of course it doesn’t work this way, but if all of our matches had been played between minutes 5-40 and 50-85, we would currently have 4 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses and be 7 points better off.
The result of a match is so often dictated by the flow of the game and we are giving momentum and confidence to opposition teams at the worse possible times. If we can just manage those 5 minutes at each end of the half a little bit better, it could go a long way.
15 goals conceded:
0-5 minutes - Southampton, West Ham, Man Utd, Newcastle
40-45+ minutes - Brentford x2, West Ham
45-50 minutes - Forest, West Ham, Newcastle, Brentford (Technically 51 but penalty was conceded a few minutes earlier)
85+ minutes – Leicester, Bournemouth x2, Brentford
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Thread | Baggott at LB
at 08:40 22 Jul 2024
In the post-Shakhter interview Morsy goes out of his way to say how LB might be a new position for Baggott and how well he has done working into it. I had assumed Baggott played there more through necessity as Humphreys and Clarke were unavailable, but I found Morsy’s praise quite telling. It sounds like they have been working with him at LB in training, perhaps in similar vein to how Tuanzebe was used at RB.
I imagine we are looking to get someone in as cover for Leif, and given that Humphreys, Clarke, Johnson and Greaves can all play LB if needed, I find it interesting that we are now working on Baggott in that position as well. I think most of us predict Baggott to go out on loan this season, but it would be a little odd for us to start working on a positional change for him now if we are going to loan him out in a few weeks’ time, when any interested loan club would surely be looking to use him as a CB.
Will be interesting to see if he gets any more minutes at LB during the rest of preseason. |
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