Good point. I kind of doubt RH was telling them to lump in crosses from useless deep positions in Adelaide, which would bolster my argument.
no but, we played much more on the deck in the attacking third which he must have stressed more today you would think. Or perhaps Danny, Dannyiel and eMannyiel had better games...
As I saw it, it was still essentially the same "wide ball crossed in" game. I was a bit frustrated in the first half that no-one could get on the end of one of those crosses. But there was more on the deck in the second half. No goals from crosses in from wide - one from a corner, one penalty, one from a good intercept and one piece of Ifill magic.
I thought today we attacked deeper to the byline much more often before we pulled it back/crossed/won a corner. v Adelaide I'd say our crosses were from a lot deeper and more aerial more often. Pretty hard to get on the end of those more aerial crosses from in front of the defence when their CBs are big guys and we can't match up well - and I think we saw that again several times today. Also today I think we ran more balls into the box and we played more balls in behind the back four to the edge of the box today. Just my impression.
Not sure why you suggest it was disciplinary issues re Smith for Adelaide, but you may be right, I just took Ricki's comments at face value - and it did seem to be reflected in our play that day imho. And in his subs.
Today seemed significantly different to me. Same formation, but we got further forward, crossed later, kept it on the deck more and kept more attacking players on the field later in the game. So it still seems to me Ricki IS more conservative away. A bit less so than in the past maybe, but I'd still say so.
Any case a good win and like you say, we ARE scoring a heap of goals, at least at home. Just woudl like to see more of that away.
mjp22012-01-04 19:27:50
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