keith margam
Vital Football Legend
It’s the end of the International break and next up we have Hull City at home, Saturday 11 Sept at 15:00.
Hull, who’ve just been promoted from League 1, beat Preston at Deepdale on the opening day of the season 1-4, so are no mugs. Riis Jakobsen scoring the only goal for Preston that day.
Riis, remember, was the player who said after our 3-1 defeat there last time out that we were easy meat and so predictable -
“We needed to figure out the distances. That’s when they got the goal unfortunately. After we figured it out we had them in the palm of our hands. We knew they were going to come here and play. They didn’t try anything else so we just kept doing the same thing. We were on top of them all the time and kept going. We were trying to get the ball high up the pitch and create something from there so we didn’t have to go all the way back and try and build it up. We got the ball high up and it was pretty much easy from there.”
Let’s hope we’ve used the last two weeks well in training and figured out how to counteract the high press and aggressive opposition play that will now be the norm every match.
Since that match, where the team selection was weakened by injury and Covid, we’ve signed a few players that will hopefully make a difference, Rhys Williams, Olivier Ntcham and Michael Obafemi.
RM - “We will have to manage their minutes, but they are all good and have trained brilliantly and had time to get used to how we want to work.”
Liam Walsh, Flynn Downes and Ben Cabango have also returned to training following injury and illness respectively.
RM - “We want to kick on and keep going. We have not had time to put everything in place and make sure everyone understands everything we want and expect.
Physically we are in a better place than two weeks ago, and it’s now about making sure we improve and learn as we go through the games.
We want to see performances, with real intensity and conviction because that is what will lead to results.”
Hull, who’ve just been promoted from League 1, beat Preston at Deepdale on the opening day of the season 1-4, so are no mugs. Riis Jakobsen scoring the only goal for Preston that day.
Riis, remember, was the player who said after our 3-1 defeat there last time out that we were easy meat and so predictable -
“We needed to figure out the distances. That’s when they got the goal unfortunately. After we figured it out we had them in the palm of our hands. We knew they were going to come here and play. They didn’t try anything else so we just kept doing the same thing. We were on top of them all the time and kept going. We were trying to get the ball high up the pitch and create something from there so we didn’t have to go all the way back and try and build it up. We got the ball high up and it was pretty much easy from there.”
Let’s hope we’ve used the last two weeks well in training and figured out how to counteract the high press and aggressive opposition play that will now be the norm every match.
Since that match, where the team selection was weakened by injury and Covid, we’ve signed a few players that will hopefully make a difference, Rhys Williams, Olivier Ntcham and Michael Obafemi.
RM - “We will have to manage their minutes, but they are all good and have trained brilliantly and had time to get used to how we want to work.”
Liam Walsh, Flynn Downes and Ben Cabango have also returned to training following injury and illness respectively.
RM - “We want to kick on and keep going. We have not had time to put everything in place and make sure everyone understands everything we want and expect.
Physically we are in a better place than two weeks ago, and it’s now about making sure we improve and learn as we go through the games.
We want to see performances, with real intensity and conviction because that is what will lead to results.”
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