- Jan 17, 2008
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For me the most frustrating thing is our passing patterns and how slow and predictable they are.
If you look at way that we try to break down defensive teams and compare it to Man City and Liverpool the difference is light and day. Unless one of our players has a moment of creative magic, we just pass the ball slowly from side to side. I appreciate Poch is playing percentage football and we're not going gung-ho, but even teams like Norwich look much more well drilled and inventive in their passing moves.
However, I'm hopeful that, while things wont magically get better, today was a raging cocktail of shite:
- No (good) creative players in the lineup.
- A very deep, defensive team who scored with their only chance of note in the game.
- A terrible refereeing decision costing us a pen.
- 2 or 3 awful misses you'd expect us to score.
It's rare that this many things will go against us, and, even though we'll inevitably play badly in plenty more games this season, it's unlikely that we'll have to suffer this particular brand of spunk-tinted White Russian on a regular basis.
If you look at way that we try to break down defensive teams and compare it to Man City and Liverpool the difference is light and day. Unless one of our players has a moment of creative magic, we just pass the ball slowly from side to side. I appreciate Poch is playing percentage football and we're not going gung-ho, but even teams like Norwich look much more well drilled and inventive in their passing moves.
However, I'm hopeful that, while things wont magically get better, today was a raging cocktail of shite:
- No (good) creative players in the lineup.
- A very deep, defensive team who scored with their only chance of note in the game.
- A terrible refereeing decision costing us a pen.
- 2 or 3 awful misses you'd expect us to score.
It's rare that this many things will go against us, and, even though we'll inevitably play badly in plenty more games this season, it's unlikely that we'll have to suffer this particular brand of spunk-tinted White Russian on a regular basis.