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Report | Brentford v Southampton Your Report added at 19:16:06
It would have been a kindness to have off loaded Armstrong to a championship side because it's going to painful for him as well as us if he is given more starts.
Everyone except RM knew that possession football was going to end up with us giving away some goals cheaply but I didn't expect it to be every game.
We have some good players and have made some good signings so given the right tactics we should comfortably survive.
How long or whether it will even happen that we adapt very significantly will be the key. |
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Report | Liverpool v Southampton Your Report added at 22:52:17
If playing out from the back is such an important of the possession game then how come Liverpool ended up having more possession than us without playing ridiculous triangles in their own 18 yard box.
There were half a dozen times that we were caught in possession in our box with no easy pass on for our defender. Sometimes you just need to hoof it upfield, it's just incredibly naive to think playing triangles in defence is not going to lead to disaster.
Hope KWP injury not too serious as I don't think our strength in depth is as strong as we once thought it was. |
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Report | Sunderland v Southampton Your Report added at 17:05:32
There is a fatal flaw with playing possession football. In order to retain possession the build up has to be slow which enables the opposition to get behind the ball and we are forced to try and breakdown a solid defence.
Our team are all drawn into the opposition half so one misplaced pass or interception means their attack has wide open spaces to play into.
This is why virtually everytime the opposition attacks they look like scoring, and often do, whereas for all our possession we rarely create any clear cut chances.
The better teams have already worked this out and sadly I can't see us mounting a serious promotion challenge playing this way. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 18:57:18
Absolute agony. The inevitability of the Wigan win and the equal inevitability of a late Spurs winner (almost as inevitable that it would be Gareth Bale).
For weeks now we have waited for the final life-saving win that would guarantee safety and week after week has passed with teams around us closing in ominously.
I am astounded that you can get as big as 30/1 on us going down on Betfair as the way I see it we are in the thick of a relegation battle.
If we don't win at least one of our next 2 matches - which are now must win as opposed to would be nice to win - then we have a real chance of going down.
As for rating the players, well we totally outplayed Spurs first half and early part of second half. How did Clyne miss the target when clean through with just their keeper to beat - a hugely costly miss?
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