Harry comment: We were about to go three at the back..........

[stevenqoz]

Interested to hear Harry say that they were about to change things up and go three at the back before we suddenly got ourselves back in the game. The Australian commentatory team had said that Pav was stripped and ready to come on but we went with Livermore instead. Just wondering how exactly we would have gone with the back 3 because it was always VDV about to come off in spite of the substitute change.
Earlier in the season when we down against Stoke he took off BAE and brought on Bassong. Clearly this was not the plan yesterday. I can only surmise that King Kabboul and BAE would be the centre backs while Bale and Walker would be wing backs. I suspect he was going to go 3 4 3 instead of the Stoke 3 5 2.........
.....Kabboul King BAE
Walker Parker Modric Bale
......Lennon Pav Defoe

If true, it would have been another variation on the Harry does 'tactics/formations' theme. Barcelona have actually started with three at the back several times this year and I wonder if it might be the way to go for us at home when teams come to park the bus. As it turned out we scored twice, got back into it and Harry brought on Livermore rather than Pav.

 

[jamesc0le]

wtf is he talking about. he may have wanted to take a chance, but at 2-2 he threw as many defensives on as possible and kept telling people to dig in and not to attack. which was f embarassing as we had them on the rack abit. and with all the defensive players he had on the pitch he could have urged the attackers to pile forward and there still would have been a shitload of defenders covering any counter attack. a great second half, slightly spoiled at the end in my opinion..

this is what he should have said after the last sub..

pienaar son dig in there , protect the team.

modric - get forward son, ferkin attack!

Jake - box to box mate wanna see some sweat!

walker - stay back!

etc

 

[Kendall]

Interested to hear Harry say that they were about to change things up and go three at the back before we suddenly got ourselves back in the game. The Australian commentatory team had said that Pav was stripped and ready to come on but we went with Livermore instead. Just wondering how exactly we would have gone with the back 3 because it was always VDV about to come off in spite of the substitute change.
Earlier in the season when we down against Stoke he took off BAE and brought on Bassong. Clearly this was not the plan yesterday. I can only surmise that King Kabboul and BAE would be the centre backs while Bale and Walker would be wing backs. I suspect he was going to go 3 4 3 instead of the Stoke 3 5 2.........
.....Kabboul King BAE
Walker Parker Modric Bale
......Lennon Pav Defoe

If true, it would have been another variation on the Harry does 'tactics/formations' theme. Barcelona have actually started with three at the back several times this year and I wonder if it might be the way to go for us at home when teams come to park the bus. As it turned out we scored twice, got back into it and Harry brought on Livermore rather than Pav.

Livermore at the back with BAE going off... ?

 

[stevenqoz]

Yes that would have been logical but the commentators said here "VDV is still the one to come off....it is Livermore to come on rather than Pav though".......

 

[punkisback]

Interested to hear Harry say that they were about to change things up and go three at the back before we suddenly got ourselves back in the game. The Australian commentatory team had said that Pav was stripped and ready to come on but we went with Livermore instead. Just wondering how exactly we would have gone with the back 3 because it was always VDV about to come off in spite of the substitute change.
Earlier in the season when we down against Stoke he took off BAE and brought on Bassong. Clearly this was not the plan yesterday. I can only surmise that King Kabboul and BAE would be the centre backs while Bale and Walker would be wing backs. I suspect he was going to go 3 4 3 instead of the Stoke 3 5 2.........
.....Kabboul King BAE
Walker Parker Modric Bale
......Lennon Pav Defoe

If true, it would have been another variation on the Harry does 'tactics/formations' theme. Barcelona have actually started with three at the back several times this year and I wonder if it might be the way to go for us at home when teams come to park the bus. As it turned out we scored twice, got back into it and Harry brought on Livermore rather than Pav.

Might as well say hello to no ball retention here. A Midfielder off and a forward on i a team that uses proper wingers only gives possession back to City. With Livermore on at least we could keep possession. More strikers does not automatically equal more goal attempts especially when they are as impotent as ours.

 

[stevenqoz]

All speculation on whether it would be 3 5 2 or 3 4 3 but only the former gives you continued midfield parity in this case. The interesting thing was that for a moment he would have considered BAE in a back three.......

 

[striebs]

....at 2-2 he threw as many defensives on as possible and kept telling people to dig in and not to attack. which was f embarassing as we had them on the rack abit.

If that's what Harry was trying to do then I think he was right .

We didn't need to win yesterday .

We could have drawn the battle and gone on to win the war .