Alex Venters
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Said at the game we couldve done with Docherty on the bench for his energy and running power as a sub.Docherty is just completely out of the picture it would appear.
Said at the game we couldve done with Docherty on the bench for his energy and running power as a sub.Docherty is just completely out of the picture it would appear.
I just think we dropped off too much. Up to exactly 60 minutes we were playing the best football I’ve seen us play in years, then we just stopped pressing, dropped off and made Morelos isolated which is why the ball kept coming back.
It’s a strange tactic I’ve seen us do 5 or 6 times and I don’t think it works.
Let’s hope we can recover for sunday
Gerrard needs to use the squad
I’d hope he starts Stewart and maybe even defoe sunday
we certainly need to freshen things up
hard hard game
I just think we dropped off too much. Up to exactly 60 minutes we were playing the best football I’ve seen us play in years, then we just stopped pressing, dropped off and made Morelos isolated which is why the ball kept coming back.
It’s a strange tactic I’ve seen us do 5 or 6 times and I don’t think it works.
Is your ice cream too cold? Constant negativity. Have you put in type anywhere that it’s a great achievement by the teamAbsolutely running on empty in the last 30mins.
The squad is thin, as we saw last night. Their substitutions changed the game and we failed to conteract that. SG's use of,or lack of use of, his bench is the one worry I have.
Ojo for Kent changed nothing. One empty jersey for another on the night. No change is shape or formation and therefore no effect on proceedings.
I would've been tempted to use the other two subs simply to get fresh legs on to the pitch in the last 15mins. We got lucky in the end.
We had Arfield and Aribo unable to have any effect on the game in the last 20mins. They should've been replaced by Halliday and Stewart.
The back four were tremendous last night and they kept us in it towards the end.
It's not a tactic ffs. Its physically impossible to do it for 90 minutes, especially against a good team who needed the 3 points. Plus when they brought their big centre forward on they went direct to him so there was no point pressing, we had to drop deeper to make sure we had enough cover if he won a high ball (which he pretty much did every time).
We defended really well, their goal was extremely lucky (I know we got a bit of luck with ours too).
Yes, this is where the likes of Docherty and King should really be coming in ... if they are not good enough they need punted and replaced ... it was clear that Jack and Kamara were knackered for the last 20 minutesIt’s weird that we seemed to have loads of centre midfielders , then last night With Davis missing we literally had no one to come on a play that position ( Halliday could possibly but hasn’t for a while )
That's an unknown.It’s not a popular opinion on here but the only slight criticism I have of SG is not rotating squad in earlier games. I think these calculated risks would have put us in better shape for games like Sunday. Defoe, katic, Stewart, flann, etc could have all had more game time this season without a massive drop in overal team performance
I’ve said this many times.Jock Wallace will be rotating in his grave if he reads this thread.
The team did look knacked in the last half hour but really there is no excuse. They are highly paid professional athletes, two games a week should not be beyond their fitness.
At tennis tournaments the top guys play every other day for anything between 2 and 5 hours. And that’s without team mates to give them a breather.
Still work to be done within the squad. We still have some players that we need off the wage bill, but we are finally at a stage where we should be looking at a couple of quality players who going straight in to the starting 11.
This place is bizarre at times. Still getting some complaining about Gerrards subs, form amongst other stuff.
We have just qualified for the knockout stages, we outplayed the scum for 90 mins and I’ve heard that big investment coming.
He should be slowing the game down and interrupting their game by using subs. Everyone does it except us.
No wonder we looked tired Aberdeen away,cup final v tramps and young boys in just over a week and people on here can say what they want young boys are no mugs.Think it would have been totally different if Davis had made it.
Jock Wallace will be rotating in his grave if he reads this thread.
The team did look knacked in the last half hour but really there is no excuse. They are highly paid professional athletes, two games a week should not be beyond their fitness.
At tennis tournaments the top guys play every other day for anything between 2 and 5 hours. And that’s without team mates to give them a breather.
Gerrards use of subs can be horrendous at times. They had made 3 subs by about 70 minutes whilst we still hadn’t made one.
Everyone could see we were starting to tire and needed fresh legs.
Then for the only sub we did make to be the most useless guy on the bench as well.
Can we afford to rest Morelos on Sunday? I don’t think we can.