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by Lower West » 05 Feb 2017 10:32
Norfolk Royal As that was the first time I'd seen us in the flesh as it were this season, a comment on our passing game if I may.
Clearly it works to the extent that we're third in the table so there's that to start with.
But yesterday we were up against an Ipswich team low on confidence having been hammered at home by Derby in midweek with the home support voting with their feet and no doubt expecting another defeat.
So what did we do? Go for their throat early doors and look for an early goal to demoralise them? Engage them in midfield to assert dominance?
Well no, we passed it slowly around at the back, nervously at times. This encouraged Ipswich to have a go at us, and they did.
Clearly this is one game and most are different and opposition teams have tended to combat our passing game with either a high press or stand off us and wait for a mistake.
by LUX » 05 Feb 2017 10:51
by Norfolk Royal » 05 Feb 2017 11:09
LUX ffs.
If we do go up, we'll prolly struggle to domin8 the odd game next season too, and some of you will moan.
by muirinho » 05 Feb 2017 11:21
Lower WestNorfolk Royal As that was the first time I'd seen us in the flesh as it were this season, a comment on our passing game if I may.
Clearly it works to the extent that we're third in the table so there's that to start with.
But yesterday we were up against an Ipswich team low on confidence having been hammered at home by Derby in midweek with the home support voting with their feet and no doubt expecting another defeat.
So what did we do? Go for their throat early doors and look for an early goal to demoralise them? Engage them in midfield to assert dominance?
Well no, we passed it slowly around at the back, nervously at times. This encouraged Ipswich to have a go at us, and they did.
Clearly this is one game and most are different and opposition teams have tended to combat our passing game with either a high press or stand off us and wait for a mistake.
Sums up much of the game time this season. We dominant possession but certainly don't dominant the opposition. Often having periods which can best be described as wobbly. Far being from a complete team.
"They scored both times from us losing the ball. The first was when we were on the attack and we lost it on the edge of their box - and on the break they were out. They did it very well and scored a great goal, but it was our mistake that cost us.
"And the second goal that we conceded, we lost it again on the right side, trying to play that ball into the striker under pressure. We were left open at the back, we gave space away, so when they won the ball they passed the ball straight through the middle to their striker and he scored the second goal.
by Emeraldroyal » 05 Feb 2017 11:34
Norfolk RoyalLUX ffs.
If we do go up, we'll prolly struggle to domin8 the odd game next season too, and some of you will moan.
Blimey Lux, wind it in a bit. I was surrounded by people frothing at the mouth and going blue in the face effing and blinding yesterday. Any criticism above implied or otherwise is merely a mild reflection of that.
by OLLIE KEARNS » 05 Feb 2017 12:31
by LUX » 05 Feb 2017 13:27
Norfolk RoyalLUX ffs.
If we do go up, we'll prolly struggle to domin8 the odd game next season too, and some of you will moan.
Blimey Lux, wind it in a bit. I was surrounded by people frothing at the mouth and going blue in the face effing and blinding yesterday. Any criticism above implied or otherwise is merely a mild reflection of that.
by The Cap » 05 Feb 2017 13:32
OLLIE KEARNS wrote:
Cracking couple of days in Suffolk capped by John Wark and Eric Gates coming into the bar we were in last night and being treated like the proper Ipswich legends that they are. Well worth staying over in Ipswich if you take in this away game in the future, It's a cracking town. The only downside was our worst performance since the dark days of last season
I think JS has to shoulder a lot of the blame for that but there were also a lot of poor performances as well. In terms of tactics, Williams isn't a wing back, Gunter isn't a centre back and it showed. Mutch was ring rusty (a good goal masked an indifferent performance), Swift just had a mare and having Kelly in the holding role meant we lost all ability to play through the middle of the pitch and into the final third. The result was possibly the most boring 45 minutes of football that I've seen in a long while.
The changes duly came in the second half but we looked like we were playing 5-0-5 at times and so the game became very open. It made for much better watching but we looked vulnerable every time Ipswich went forward.
In terms of the two goals conceded. Gunter, please just make a tackle instead of backing off all of the time or at least show the player inside onto his wrong foot. Blackett, you get done by the same run time and time again. In terms of the two goals scored, both very good goals that rescued a point we probably didn't deserve.
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