Match discussion - London City Lionesses (H) - Sunday 28 Sep k.o. 12:00

Mon Autre said:
Don't really understand some of the Shaw criticism. I think her final touch has eluded her so far this season but we have to stick with her and let her find her form. And she buried both of her pens today.

Surprised at the number of people criticising her body language when she always carries herself in that way during games whether shes playing well or not. If you watch the training videos she seems a really influential member of the squad and is enjoying herself at City

I agree shes nowhere near her best yet this season but I dont think its down to lack of interest. She's come off the back of 12 months severely disrupted by injury and she has a new role in a new system to get used to. The manager has correctly identified that we were way too reliant on her goals in the past and that using her as a focal point in attack made us much too predictable. She's being expected to do more deeper in the pitch and be part of the link up play and on the whole I think out approach play is looking better for it.
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She was very good holding up play, but I think she needs someone up with her to capitalise on the possession she retains when there's a hoof from our back line. There were numerous times where she won the header, where it went into open space behind the LCL's back line and no one to take advantage. I'm wondering whether the difference between this season and last season is contained in the instructions that Jegerlitz has given her.

The depressing thing about today was a continuation of this mindset of passing backwards. 128 backward passes. There were umpteen occasions where the player on the ball could have carried it five or ten yards but decided a backward pass was in order. It puts no pressure on opponents as they don't have to do a thing. And some of the player out at the back is in the heart-stopping category. How many times did LBB get a pass facing her own goal with a brute bearing down on her?
 
cleavers said:
I like Casparij, she's a very good player, no fuss, and generally play forward looking, when too many want to go backwards. The number of times we ended up back at the keeper when we'd been on the edge of the area, it does my head in, and it wasn't really because they were pressing that hard, especially in the second half.
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It's the GT legacy. Hope it doesn't take all season to bin it and start driving forward!
 
Mon Autre said:
Totally agree. I think anyone who has watched her for us over the past few years would recognise that she always cuts a frustrated figure when things arent going for her during games.
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But then so did KDB for the men’s team, and he did ok for us!

Personally I think maybe people are reading too much into her supposed body language, or at the least, misinterpreting it a bit.
 
SpeaksForItself said:
The news on Hemp was positive - and she was wearing normal trainers on Wednesday.
We desperately need either her or Kerolin to be back next week to give us attacking options off the bench.
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Hemp was wearing the moon boot today
 
citizen_maine said:
Might just be that the opposition pressed really well for the majority of the game
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This is often 90% of the opposition game plan. They don't have a lot to offer beyond denying a bit of space, whereas yesterday we tended to stand back and let them pass the ball about. I long for Carlos Tevez to become the Women's Closing Down Coach or Jezzer D to spend his spare time coaching the lasses how to dribble.
 
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