You played as a CB in your football days Weasel.
What do you consider are our defensive problems are over the last three weeks?
How do we eradicate the errors?
Any solutions?
You played as a CB in your football days Weasel.
just been a stat on TV that Wolves have only used 19 players this season and they are playing in Europe, we must be running at a similar number.
Klich looks mentally and physically tired in my opinion but it's not surprising as I think he's played just about every game this season?leic white 63 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:08 am i think you can add klich to that list . not been at the races recently.
I disagree, better quality players to execute the philosophy will suffice. But that's another matter entirely...
BORING!!!1964white wrote: Time to get back to basics !
It is certainly a tricky one and for me our strength defensively this season has I think been down to more how we defend as a team, all the pressing etc, rather than our defenders and keeper. Kiko has been a big improvement on BPF (despite the wobbles of late), his reading of the game allowing us to push higher up the pitch as a team which means less space for the opposition and easier for us to close down. White has been a great addition although I think the way we have played most of the season has meant he hasn't been forced to be a defender in a lot of the matches, maybe he is a better ball playing defender than an actual defender. In recent weeks have we seen teams play differently against us and test our defence more?
Maybe boring Rab!rab_rant wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:09 pm BORING!!!
You want us to be playing draughts when we are more suited it chess moves by Bobby Fisher... playing the King's Indian gambit and making brilliant moves that look like mistakes, but turn out to be strokes of genius.
You want us to be playing tiddly winks when we could be swinging from the masthead like Captain Jack Sparrow... a twinkle in our eyes and a blade between our teeth... buckling swashes like nobodies business.
you want us to crawl inside a box and close the lid on ourselves so we can feel safe... whereas I would want us to spring out like a jack in the box joker laughing like a loon and scaring the Shite out of the opposition.
I am for the charge of the light brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. you are for standing still like the thin red line.
I am for the triumphant sounding Hallelujah chorus, while you stand in the corner whispering Baa Baa black sheep.
As the good book says. Without a vision the people perish.
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Fantastic post. Thanks.weasel wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:18 pm It is certainly a tricky one and for me our strength defensively this season has I think been down to more how we defend as a team, all the pressing etc, rather than our defenders and keeper. Kiko has been a big improvement on BPF (despite the wobbles of late), his reading of the game allowing us to push higher up the pitch as a team which means less space for the opposition and easier for us to close down. White has been a great addition although I think the way we have played most of the season has meant he hasn't been forced to be a defender in a lot of the matches, maybe he is a better ball playing defender than an actual defender. In recent weeks have we seen teams play differently against us and test our defence more?
I think the biggest factor that made us so tight defensively was that we weren't conceding many corners or free kicks - we were stronger at preventing danger than dealing with danger. Take yesterday and Ayling was great going forward but if he loses the ball at any point then he was way out of position, maybe we have lost our discipline a bit. The goal against Preston and Klich lost the ball on the edge of their area and they ran straight through us - that hasn't happened before this season but it did a lot last season. The third goal yesterday and Kiko comes for the corner and gets nowhere near the ball, but did he do that because of the 2nd goal where he had nobody protecting him when he made the initial save and was then clattered into (admittedly I don't think he was catching that but he probably would if he didn't have one eye on the player about to clatter him). All little things that we are starting to do wrong or not do properly.
At this stage, if I was in Bielsa's shoes, I wouldn't be panicking although certainly concerned. Having Bamford back for set pieces certainly helps as he tends to adopt a near post position and is good at clearing from that area which makes the opposition have to aim wider or higher with their delivery from corners. This simple factor makes it harder for the opposition to put a quality delivery into a more dangerous area. Some fans would look at a corner come in and it goes nowhere near Bamford and not realise that it is because of Bamford's position that the opposition haven't played it there. They just count stats and in that instance Bamford hasn't made a defensive clearance. So stats wise he has has done nothing but the fact he has stood where he has has made the opposition's corner far less dangerous. That is just one instance of how stats can be irrelevant. It is also one of the reasons why Bielsa is reluctant to make changes as all the players have duties that we as fans probably don't see. We probably see someone having a poor game but he could be Bielsa's man of the match because he has done what Bielsa has asked him to do and it has affected the way the opposition has had to play and in some ways it has made the game bypass that player so we see a player who has hardly been involved yet because of that the opposition has been far less effective.
Not sure I answered the question but hopefully conveyed the point that I don't think it is just as easy as saying the defence/keeper are to blame. Also worth noting that a few players have had iffy games so hopefully that is just a temporary thing and once they get back to their normal selves then hopefully a lot of problems disappear.
I think we're the best team as well dispite my negativity however we have always managed to hit the self destruct button very very regularly when the pressure mounts and I believe that this season is the last chance saloon to get promoted...fail and God forbid what will happen.1964white wrote: But we are a different set-up since Bielsa's arrival
First taste of championship football for Marcelo last season, a learning process you could say!
This season we appear a better unit in what is a poorer league imo!
Don't get me wrong I'm not blinkered enough to realise there are elements of out game & squad I'm concerned about however I do believe we are the best team in this league all down to Marcelo's managerial skills
I have a little inkling Cardiff will be up there soon, I've watched them a couple of times recently including coming back from 3-0 down against some other team can't remember , they haven't looked particularly outstanding but are getting results.1964white wrote: Can't see a Villa coming from nowhere too!