Didsbury Dave said:
Quite:
With him it's one step forward, one step back. He learns a lesson, then forgets it, which would explain our irregular results.
The sooner that he gets back to Italy, where he does understand the game, the better.
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Quite:
With him it's one step forward, one step back. He learns a lesson, then forgets it, which would explain our irregular results.
The sooner that he gets back to Italy, where he does understand the game, the better.
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remoh said:
The defensive midfielders play at a set distance in front of the back four. If the back four are playing deep then at least one of them has to sit within 10 yards.
The long through ball: This is a long, and usually high, pass from a teams' own half, over the heads of the other team's defence. It is intended for the attacking players to chase and it is important that they remain in an onside position until the ball is kicked. The tactic works best with strong and fast forwards who will have a good chance of winning back the ball, taking control over it, and eventually getting a shot on goal. In the diagram, the ball (red line) is played in front of the furthermost forward, the dotted blue line showing their run. In this example, a through-ball pass along the ground would be picked up by one of the defenders (black team) because the gap between the two central defenders is too small.
Blackburn played this ball succesfully several times in the first half. It was getting dangerous. Even if Benjani and Roberts are shit, it only takes one lucky bounce for them to be clean through.
Once we did drop back, they didn't really create much of anything in open play. And when we countered it was decisive. Where we let ourselves down was (as usual) giving silly free kicks away.
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if anything I thought the problem v Blackburn was that there was too big a gap between the midfield, defence and attack. De Jong ended up in the back 4 for considerable parts of the game and Yaya and Silva went walkies up the pitch and there was a 30/40 yard gap at some points, which is seriously detrimental to a slick passing game.
Added to Yaya's determination to pass the ball to the ghosts of Ewood Park and you have a problem.
Added to Yaya's determination to pass the ball to the ghosts of Ewood Park and you have a problem.
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Dismal hasn't stopped digging yet but it's fun to watchDidsbury Dave said:
Kompanyon said:
He will NOT go there, unless they are planning on allowing the Ultras to riot.
Finally, I see that nobody bothered to actually read that article. It says that he's staying here and Lombardo would find Juve difficult to turn down if Bobby left, as he wants to follow him around. It doesn't say what people think it says
Am I right in assuming he was critical of possible corruption in Juve? If so maybe the purists among them would welcome him with open arms. I reckon its a moot point anyway....he's talked about the hard work he put in this year and the potential for next....I would like to think he would want to stay to see that work come to fruition.