Who is playing where on the pitch?
Payne up and down the other side working with Ishage inside him.
But reasonably fluid with Rufer and Conchie advancing to support play as need be.
My impression is we got more ball through the centre to Rojas and Ishage than we did in previous seasons. Still using Sutton and Payne for width, plus Nagasawa, but using the short passing route through the centre more.
I guess you could see it as a 4231 shape, except I thought both Ishage and Rojas were holding more centrally.
Thanks for that.
In your opinion how was the play overall? Good points + things we could have done better. That, and how did Nagasawa & Ishige look?
Sounds like a good quality hit out, which to be fair, is exactly what you want heading into the final few weeks of pre season.
Hard to say if we have got enough to really trouble good A League sides. But it also had the feel of a community day 45min run, so we'll see what they can do in the pre-season games in Aus. I'd like to hear we can score a few goals in those. But even then it's early days.
I thought Rojas, Ishage and Nagasawa all added something. Not forgetting Retre who didn't play. Didn't show the pace of an Old, but Olympic weren't running any sort of high line so not a lot of room to show that. Hard to say comparing those three to Kraev, Old, Pennington and a half season of Zawada. But a couple of them will need to score a fair bit and Kosta will need to have another good season. I'm not sure about all that. We're also short and that will affect our attacking game.
It will be interesting to see how we go. It looks like we intend to be a quick tempo passing side. How well that produces goals will be the trick.