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Posted October 12, 2015 04:13 · last edited October 12, 2015 04:14

martinb wrote:

el grapadura wrote:

Tegal wrote:

el grapadura wrote:

Tegal wrote:

having not seen the game, I'm finding all this "why didn't we shoot?" Talk strange as we had 14 shots,10 of which were within the penalty area. Seems like we shot at goal rather a lot? Quality shots too, rather than low percentage speculators from outside the area. 

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Not only that, but Ernie's repeatedly stated that he prefers an approach that gets you smaller number of high quality chances, rather than shoot on sight type situation which leads to lots of shots, but many of which are little more than waste of possession. This is how we've played under Ernie, sometimes with success, sometimes not so much. But that's how it is under Ernie, it ain't gonna change while he's the manager.

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Pretty much. I wouldn't even call 14 shots (10 of which were in the box) a small number of opportunities. 

I wouldn't either, which is why the complaints are all the more surprising.

Compared to last year we had a lot of shots into a congested box it seemed, even from inside the box. I think the stats make them seem much better than they were. I don't remember that many howling misses (peno aside) , but I do remember a lot of shots into traffic, and a couple of weak-ish headers. That said I don't think Krishna had that bad a game, just that he isn't Burns.

A problem for me was that our main tactic is now pass it to Krishna who will hopefully outpace his marker.

We use that tactic last season too; but Burns was a dangerous outlet that draw defenders away and gave Krishna more space. Not the case this season. Lets hope the Jeff turns out to be that man.

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And I just don’t like having Lia in there,I think albert is much better when he sits deeper on his own

I actually really liked Riera in that role slightly further forward. He was very busy covering in defense and creating options in possession, and provided a great link (with Roly) between attack and defense (which is where we often struggled last year).

I thought Riera had more involvement in that game than most games last season. He was very good.

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valeo edited October 12, 2015 04:14
martinb wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
Tegal wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
Tegal wrote:

having not seen the game, I'm finding all this "why didn't we shoot?" Talk strange as we had 14 shots,10 of which were within the penalty area. Seems like we shot at goal rather a lot? Quality shots too, rather than low percentage speculators from outside the area. 

Not only that, but Ernie's repeatedly stated that he prefers an approach that gets you smaller number of high quality chances, rather than shoot on sight type situation which leads to lots of shots, but many of which are little more than waste of possession. This is how we've played under Ernie, sometimes with success, sometimes not so much. But that's how it is under Ernie, it ain't gonna change while he's the manager.

Pretty much. I wouldn't even call 14 shots (10 of which were in the box) a small number of opportunities. 

I wouldn't either, which is why the complaints are all the more surprising.

Compared to last year we had a lot of shots into a congested box it seemed, even from inside the box. I think the stats make them seem much better than they were. I don't remember that many howling misses (peno aside) , but I do remember a lot of shots into traffic, and a couple of weak-ish headers. That said I don't think Krishna had that bad a game, just that he isn't Burns.

A problem for me was that our main tactic is now pass it to Krishna who will hopefully outpace his marker.

We use that tactic last season too; but Burns was a dangerous outlet that draw defenders away and gave Krishna more space. Not the case this season. Lets hope the Jeff turns out to be that man.