Movement

[pnewortham]

But for the first fifteen/twenty minutes we took their flat back five system apart,playing football on the floor, attacking with pace and creating three or four great chances.We then played right in to their hands slowed the game down,went sideways and backwards and punted long hopeful balls forward to a lone striker.
We let them back in to the game played to a style and system that gave them the ball back time after time and created next to nothing.
We continued to play in this style for the remaining 75 minutes or so and Millwall were more than happy for us to do so as it suited their system.

Yes. This.

 

[Mer5eywhite]

So that when they get tackled numerous times by fellow championship defenders you can shout at them and tell them they should be passing instead.



The problem there however is when there is five defenders and two holding midfielders playing deep, they just don’t move. There’s no space to run behind because they’re so deep. There’s minimal space between the lines because they’re so compact. So the ‘backwards and sideways’ patient approach is the best way to go about it. You just need your quality to be up to scratch. We made a good few chances from being patient and probing.

It’s either that, or bypassing the midfield all together by smacking balls up to a lone striker against three giant centre halves. Pointless.

IMO the problem today was the execution, not the tactics. I’d have started Gally since we passed it a lot first half and they were very deep. But in that first 20 minutes we had a few good openings but the quality just wasn’t there unfortunately.

There were opportunities to play the ball in behind or overlap later on (not many but there were some). We ignored them and went backwards again.

Similarly bringing Maguire on instead of Stockley to battle against three centre halves made no sense.

 

[LancasterRed]

I see the Twitter snowflakes have found this thread...



Given how useful a quick throw-in can be and how bad we are at taking them I'd say it's a valid point to be discussing.

 

[Thracia]

I see the Twitter snowflakes have found this thread...



Given how useful a quick throw-in can be and how bad we are at taking them I'd say it's a valid point to be discussing.

Suggest for reasons of time, space and general forum sanity we don't try to take into account the tortured dribblings of every random Twitter account with 8 followers.

 

[Sid Snot]

I see the Twitter snowflakes have found this thread...



Given how useful a quick throw-in can be and how bad we are at taking them I'd say it's a valid point to be discussing.

Enough to make you want to throws ups.

 

[26-0]

I see the Twitter snowflakes have found this thread...



Given how useful a quick throw-in can be and how bad we are at taking them I'd say it's a valid point to be discussing.

Yes, marginal gains.

 

[bowlandwhites]

What really worried me yesterday was how much control millwall had on the game & how little we could do about it .
None of our players had a clue what runs to make or tactics to change the game there defence was so much in control.
Hard lesson for us some of our players arnt as good as they think they are. Harsh lesson yesterday the kick up the arse they need.

 

[Realistic]

Maybe Millwall are better than their current position suggests. If we'd taken one of our early chances, it probably would have been different but (like others have said), it was worrying to see us run out of ideas for three quarters of the game. Personally, I'd have left Sinclair on. He might not be playing well but you know the potential's there when a chance arises.

Seeing as we got the points at Stoke and results went for us elsewhere yesterday, the damage is limited.

 

[kbd_pne]

In hindsight we should have changed to 2 up top to combat the 5 at the back.
For me Nugent on his own doesn’t work, he’s had about 2 decent sub appearances since he’s been back.
I’d also like to see Sinclair further up the field.

Nugent has scored 1 goal in his last 43 Championship appearances.

In a season in which the club are expecting a push for promotion, he’s the only striker we’ve signed.

Shows what AN is up against really.

 

[Lee Trundle]

Nugent has scored 1 goal in his last 43 Championship appearances.

In a season in which the club are expecting a push for promotion, he’s the only striker we’ve signed.

Shows what AN is up against really.

In a rotation with a guy who has 1 in 25.

We have the least threatening strike force in the division

 

[spender]

saturdays result at home to millwall was a terrible result, just what Alex Neil was thinking about i don't know.

If ever there was a game for STOCKLEY to start then that was it, Millwall have massive giant defenders so we should have had STOCKLEY in there to upset and ruffle them but what does our superb manager do, he continues with small strikers and the team hoof it in the air, hey presto no impetus from us and they do a smash and grab on us.

What was also disappointing is that NUGENT, SINCLAIR & DJ all flufffed their lines when it looked easier to score.

i love Tom, CLARKE and he has been magnificent for us but he is not a right back and opposing teams suss us out all too easily. Play players in their proper positions. RAFFERTY should have been at right back and I would say that on present form and match fitness then Alan BROWNE would have been better deployed there, i am sorry to say this but I think this is TC's last season just like HUNTS, both have been fanatstic servants.

Having had the euphoria of beating a dirty Stoke side we then slip to the depths saturday in letting that pub team turn us over. It would have been massive if we had won now its all pressure on saturday, nothing less than a win and its curtains.

Alex Neil said it was his fault, it doesn't take einstein to work that one out, he's made some appalling errors this season.