orbitalforest
Vital Football Legend
Been stuck at Peterborough for half hour and not sure how long the delay.
Lorry hit a bridge somewhere.
Typical .
Lorry hit a bridge somewhere.
Typical .
Thats why we need better then what we have..Carvalio has been playing like this most of the time...these type of performances are masked with the odd episode of class, but is it enough? Its not as if he is a Del Piero in the making ...this is the Championship nd we cannot afford keep having a passenger nd hoping that he commes good with pass or a goal...Cash also has gone on quite...he keeps falling everytime he touches the ball ...positives today the four at the back nd the two central midfielders...even though for 80 minutes we were too defensive..Dawson and fig have conceded 1 goal in 5 games as a pairing.
Cash isn't doing enough all he does is fall over it's a pity that dias is worse. Carvalho ineffective.
I thought we played better when yacob came on. He's too good for the bench in my opinion
It wasn't negative though was it?We were sloppy in the first half, and Stoke were threatening, but we ended it much better. We played much better in the second half and created the better chances. I thought Darikwa was superb. Butland made two great saves in the last 15 mins.
It wasn't a bad performance, but AK seems more intent on not losing than winning. His like for like substitutions show that, particularly ending up with two defensive midfielders on the pitch but still only one up front. This negativity will cost us IMO.
It wasn't negative though was it?
We can hardly criticise 'negative' substitutions if the outcome was us ending the game putting them under constant pressure and nearly winning it.
Couldn't go today through illness but from what I heard the sub seemed very sensible; we were going for it and the game was wide open with them breaking when we lost the ball. Yacob was brought on to allow us to continue pushing with the other players without throwing the game away kamikaze style.
I don't see anything wrong with that.
If we had had a turgid last 10 minutes with no chances you would be quite fair to criticise the sub as negative, but that isn't what happened.
I see what you're saying but with another striker's goalscoring instinct, e.g. Ansarifard, while keeping Grabban on the pitch we could well have found that all important finish. Yes, we picked up with the subs he made; there was plenty of pressure around the 18 yard area, but without the decisive cutting edge. AK seems unwilling to take a risk, that may bring desisive reward.
Someone else will have to tell me because I wasnt there, but was it really a game where just having another striker about would have made more difference than having a tricky winger?
Radio kept saying that the Stoke defence were 'well positioned'. That doesn't sound to me like a scenario where just adding another striker would put the shits up them. It's easy to talk about having another striker 'im the box' as others have done, but would Ansarifard be able to actually get into the box or recieve the ball if he does?
I agree that perhaps there is an element of safety first, of making sure you preserve what you have before really going for it. That depends on your preference. I hate losing, so I'll pay the price of winning slightly less to lose hardly any. This time last year we had about 8 wins and 8 defeats, and that pissed me off much more than having 9 draws. But I appreciate others prefer it differently