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Fundamentals 11:37 - Oct 20 with 1740 viewsJules4367

1. Shooting- aim at the gap inside that white posty thing as opposed to hitting the ball with all your might. We had three decent chances before they equalised and each was blasted over the bar (by some distance!). What is the point of practicing shooting before the game if during it you don't know what to do and panic?
2. Throw ins- Both hands hold the ball, pass it back over your head, then forward and let go- ensure it goes to one of your players and we keep the ball.
3. Ball control- Your feet are better at controlling the ball than your head. Stop the random head tennis. Anticpate the ball coming to your feet as opposed to hitting your legs and going into touch or to their side!
4. Defending - tackle and don't let them get behind you, if anything put the ball out of play. (Paal and Fox are attrocious at this!)
5. One on one - if you are through shoot even if it is on your weaker foot and hit the target. Practice shooting with your weaker foot.
6. Free Kicks- Do something different than always lofting the ball into a packed area. Short passes behind/ alongside the wall to get behind them.
7. Stop pointless 'flick ons' by Frey- Sinclair Armstrong is not there anymore and it rarely worked/works. Who is Frey actually meant to be flicking the ball to??
8 Centre Forward- learn to anticipate. Sit the strikers and wingers down (as if they were taking a driving safety test) and show them scenarios. For example...Mr Frey, your winger has the ball and has got round the back, if he crosses the ball are you really going to be in a position to head it? If not then we shall ALWAYS ask him to fire the ball in hard and low and you have to anticipate that!

Yesterday was terrible and it is basic fundamentals that we just do not seem to be able to grasp. I don't see this as Marti as much as the players BUT I do wonder what they had been focussing on in training during the two week break
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Fundamentals on 11:47 - Oct 20 with 1674 viewsQPR_Hibs

Agree with most of this and would add:

9. Defending Corners - what is the point of having Dembele or Chair (or Smyth or Saito) in the box defending? Get one or two of them on the halfway line as an out ball.

10. Stupid goalkick routine - Why? Nardi should either play it short or lump it forward. Why is the defender passing it to Nardi to receive it back again but now under pressure from the oppo striker?
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"Remember to listen to me but look at her. Don't get it the wrong way round. That would be hideous."

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Fundamentals on 11:48 - Oct 20 with 1669 viewsdanehoop

this all sounds like witchcraft - burn him

Never knowingly understood

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Fundamentals on 11:54 - Oct 20 with 1605 viewsozexile

Fundamentals on 11:47 - Oct 20 by QPR_Hibs

Agree with most of this and would add:

9. Defending Corners - what is the point of having Dembele or Chair (or Smyth or Saito) in the box defending? Get one or two of them on the halfway line as an out ball.

10. Stupid goalkick routine - Why? Nardi should either play it short or lump it forward. Why is the defender passing it to Nardi to receive it back again but now under pressure from the oppo striker?
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No.10 kills me. Hope Pep decides to go long with every kick soon so we can get rid of this nonsense. It's ok occasionally but to do it everytime when a team is set in front of you is crackers. No wonder fans are bored rigid.
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Fundamentals on 12:50 - Oct 20 with 1445 viewsNortholt_Rs

Fundamentals on 11:54 - Oct 20 by ozexile

No.10 kills me. Hope Pep decides to go long with every kick soon so we can get rid of this nonsense. It's ok occasionally but to do it everytime when a team is set in front of you is crackers. No wonder fans are bored rigid.


Then the big hoof ball by passing MF up to Frey who is marked by 3 defenders in the hope he can flick it on to…..nobody. It’s truly hopeless and fkn awful to watch. Portsmouth won’t win an easier game all season. Fkn horrific ‘performance’.

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Fundamentals on 14:12 - Oct 20 with 1312 viewsrbee

Fundamentally football is a simple game, several fans on here have said that they think that Marti is over complicating things.

Football is 11 v 11. Even if the opposition 11 are better players than your 11, Wolves today v Man City, you are at an immediate disadvantage, but there will be a way to achieve a positive outcome, Bournemouth v Arsenal yesterday.

As others have suggested I think Marti should put his preferred style of play and club ethos on the back burner and concentrate on putting points on the board. For me that starts at the back and keeping clean sheets, without that it's an uphill climb. Defend for our lives and stop putting all 11 players back at set pieces, leave Saito, or similar, up top, always pose the opposition some questions.

I remember back in 2009 (?) we sacked Jim Magilton and went up to West Brom for a Monday night Sky game with Steve Gallen and Marc Bircham in temporary charge. West Brom were second in the league and flying so we feared the worst.

We did defend for our lives, closed them down, restricted them much of the time to sideways football but we always posed a threat on the break and at set pieces. 0-0 at half time and early in the second half we took the lead before adding a second. WBA put us under so much pressure and finally equalised in injury time but an almost perfect away performance.

Portsmouth are not a better team than us but we lost, Coventry are not a better team than us so it's up to Marti to tactically get this game right and outwit his counterpart with his 11 against their 11.
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Fundamentals on 14:13 - Oct 20 with 1306 viewsBurnleyhoop

Fundamentals on 11:47 - Oct 20 by QPR_Hibs

Agree with most of this and would add:

9. Defending Corners - what is the point of having Dembele or Chair (or Smyth or Saito) in the box defending? Get one or two of them on the halfway line as an out ball.

10. Stupid goalkick routine - Why? Nardi should either play it short or lump it forward. Why is the defender passing it to Nardi to receive it back again but now under pressure from the oppo striker?
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We almost got done at a corner, again, with an unmarked player standing just outside of the box. Fortunately, he smashed it over the bar. We absolutely do not learn from previous mistakes.

Basic stuff, but the quality of our play yesterday was really poor.
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Fundamentals on 14:16 - Oct 20 with 1296 viewseastside_r

We are doing the simple things, the fundamentals, badly.

We are unlikely to come up against two such limited teams as Pompey and Derby many times this season. And we were were well beaten by both of them.

Neither of them needed to be much good (and they weren't) to beat us.
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Fundamentals on 14:34 - Oct 20 with 1245 viewsR_from_afar

Good points. I really wonder if we *don't* practice thiis stuff because:
- It's assumed all the players have fully mastered it
- The players find it boring
- The coaching staff find it boring
- A combination of some or all of the above.

As an example, the quality of finishing has been poor for years. It must have been at least four years ago that we played Cardiff away, swarmed all over them, had over 20 shots on target, then lost 3-0 as Cardiff had just three shots, all of which went in.

Sigh...

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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Fundamentals on 14:47 - Oct 20 with 1198 viewsmart_Goblin

It’s really simple , but if you don’t do the most basic of footballing fundamentals like win your duals, win second balls, keep the ball, move the ball quickly, have good movement, attack the ball etc etc etc etc etc then you lose football matches.

We don’t do any of these well enough
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Fundamentals on 15:57 - Oct 20 with 1072 viewsDWQPR

Number 8 is a bit unfair. When you have someone like Paul Smyth who crosses before he looks or thinks then it is hard for a forward to anticipate. There was one instance late in the game when Smyth hit a ball that was neither cross or shot, which had no bend or direction for a forward to get onto. It also boils my pîss the lack of pulling the ball back from the byline for oncoming midfielders to strike a shot, although based on yesterdays shooting I suspect that H&S for the supporters in the upper tier have to be considered!

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Fundamentals on 17:08 - Oct 20 with 1018 viewsBenny_the_Ball

Fundamentals on 11:54 - Oct 20 by ozexile

No.10 kills me. Hope Pep decides to go long with every kick soon so we can get rid of this nonsense. It's ok occasionally but to do it everytime when a team is set in front of you is crackers. No wonder fans are bored rigid.


It makes even less sense when you consider that we don't have central midfielders who are comfortable receiving the ball on the turn in tight areas and can get the team moving up the pitch. The defenders inevitably have to go long so Nardi may as well go long to begin with. In our current set-up going short increases the risk when there is no reward to be had.
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