by Hound »
05 Jan 2018 09:17
FiNeRaIn genome I still maintain that when you have little to no attacking threat or pressure, it pushes your defenders into making silly mistakes.
It does, but teams are scoring after having absolutely zero pressure on us. It's not as if we are going forward, losing the ball and then being left under siege. Both Burton and Birmingham scored their first goals out of absolutely nowhere and both were set pieces. That is 100% on the defence for being utterly useless. There are countless goals like that under Stams reign. Innocuous game, not much going on, we start to take control, the other team ventures into our half and randomly scores out of nowhere and its game over.
Exactly that. We aren't a terrible side who are constantly being put under pressure from the oppo. The majority of play is in our possession round about the half way line. Most games the oppo has about 3 or 4 shots on target against us.
countless games this season - Hull, Boro, Norwich, Burton, Birmingham to name some off the top of my head, its happened exactly as described there. The team seems to be fully aware we are going to drop a bollok and concede at some point, which is partly why i think we are so tentative. They then also know our record at coming back from a goal down is rubbish.
Last season at home esp this just didn't happen. We'd plod along, safe in the knowledge we'd not concede, until we snapped up a chance of our own and went from there. There was no panic if we didn't score early, as we inevitably did at some point. And if we didn't, we'd take the 0-0 and the point and move on to the next game.
Its interesting that someone bumped up the QPR game - as that was literally the only time last year that the pattern of this season actually happened. The only game i can think that came close was Rotherham where we ended up winning
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Hound on 05 Jan 2018 09:20, edited 1 time in total.