bigf42
Well-Known Member
Not read all the posts on here, but I've read a fair few.....
Nobody on here has mentioned the wind, it seemed to me that balls towards that end were holding up, the particular one leading to the goal seemed to hang in the air for ages, with no forward momentum on the bounce. I reckon neither players allowed for the conditions, the defender went too deep then the ball bounced, and the keeper came out way too far anticipating wrongly that it would run on to him.
In football it is actually harder to defend with the wind(behind you) than against, when the wind is against you very often the ball over runs the attackers and goes out harmlessly, but when you are with the wind, the ball stalls in the air attackers can get on to crap punts up field as witnessed yesterday.
Still a massive cock up, I wasn't there, so can't tell what the conditions were like, but I was at a rugby match earlier in the day, and it varied between flat calm and GF6. Be interested to know what it was like in SW London just before 6pm?
Any way just adds to my theory that Mourinho isn't any tactical Genius, He's always been a long ball merchant - Fat Sam in a posh coat....
Nobody on here has mentioned the wind, it seemed to me that balls towards that end were holding up, the particular one leading to the goal seemed to hang in the air for ages, with no forward momentum on the bounce. I reckon neither players allowed for the conditions, the defender went too deep then the ball bounced, and the keeper came out way too far anticipating wrongly that it would run on to him.
In football it is actually harder to defend with the wind(behind you) than against, when the wind is against you very often the ball over runs the attackers and goes out harmlessly, but when you are with the wind, the ball stalls in the air attackers can get on to crap punts up field as witnessed yesterday.
Still a massive cock up, I wasn't there, so can't tell what the conditions were like, but I was at a rugby match earlier in the day, and it varied between flat calm and GF6. Be interested to know what it was like in SW London just before 6pm?
Any way just adds to my theory that Mourinho isn't any tactical Genius, He's always been a long ball merchant - Fat Sam in a posh coat....