South Coast Royal The most disappointing thing for me is that Pauno seems to have fallen into the trap of many managers in now worrying too much about the opposition..
We got to our lofty league position by generally playing fluid attacking football based on a midfield all working together and swapping positions when necessary plus an in-form striker who rarely missed..
When I saw the line-up last night I thought he had made selections for the wrong game-Rotherham has a team of giants and they play long ball, Wycombe don't have a team of giants.
Playing 4 centre-backs IMHO smacked of negativity, i.e. we have to deal with them when surely, taking into account the massive difference in league positions and past results we should not have been worrying about them, they should have been left to worry about us.
Pretty much sums it up for me.
4 center backs with a holding midfielder is something you would expect against Norwich or Swansea. I can accept a sluggish performances or teams just simply being more up for it than us. But to set up like this completely removes our game play. Ejaria needs a LB to over lap him. Laurent and Rino want to make that square ball to open up the pitch. Every player looked isolated
Joao game is not flicking it on.....you could see in his body language that he was sick of it too and gave up, give him something to attack or play it to his feet. Launching a 60 yard straight ball to him isn't worth it. Not only does it achieve nothing, it also bypasses our much lauded midfield.
Every time i saw a long ball i was hoping it was mis hit so Joao could chase it and Ejaria / Olise could get into a position to help out.