York_Owl Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Anyone else think we are a little bit too gung ho away from home? If we are playing a 4-4-2 would we better having at least one defensive wide midfielder say Helan rather than two more attacking wide men, Matias and sougou? Or if we play both attacking wide men should we play the extra Man in midfield and just one up front? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoop Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I think it's a cup thing. CC doesn't seem to fancy replays, so he goes for it near the end of games, worked against Fulham but not yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darra Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Unless you have a player capable of playing the lone striker role which I dont think we have cant see the reason for doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEnchanter Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Going on the away league games this season we definitely seem to leave ourselves too open in my opinion. However, CC doesn't like to go defensive, he likes to show what we can do to teams rather than being concerned about what they can do to us. Can we find a balance in the last 10 or so away games? We certainly need to start picking up more wins or we'll simply not make the play-offs. Unless you have a player capable of playing the lone striker role which I dont think we have cant see the reason for doing it. So how did we manage last season then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IstillhateSteveBould Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Unless you have a player capable of playing the lone striker role which I dont think we have cant see the reason for doing it. This. We just never look good with a lone striker. Arsenal game aside where it worked to perfection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 We weren't gung-ho at Reading last week when we tried to defend a single goal lead for an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEnchanter Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 We weren't gung-ho at Reading last week when we tried to defend a single goal lead for an hour. True, and we didn't lose the game so ultimately it kind of worked. What was not good about that game was how under the cosh we were. We need to find a balance between being more solid and being able to still cause other teams some problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ever the pessimist Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Not been away that often but I have been thinking that when we have taken the lead we have not carried the threat on the break that I expected. We have clever ball players who I would hope could exploit such situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slow83 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Not convinced I'd label our away mentality as gung Ho. Quite the opposite, at reading we allowed a mediocre team to have the ball and tried to defend a 1 goal lead for 80 minutes..... It was painful to watch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEnchanter Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Not been away that often but I have been thinking that when we have taken the lead we have not carried the threat on the break that I expected. We have clever ball players who I would hope could exploit such situations. I too am surprised how we seem to be quite easy to keep quiet away from home. I mean it's not been a disaster, we are ranked 14th in the away table but looking at our remaining away games but also it's not good enough because we are due a couple of poor home results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theowlsman Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I think the only issue we have is not having the luxury to play Hunt, Pudil, Lees and Loovens every week. The defence wouldn't be an issue if we could play them as a unit every week. That's injuries for you. Need to improve the quality of our reserves in the summer to help manage outages better. Some of our 2nd string players are very average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Possibly, were not able to dictate play as effectively away from home. Might need to be a bit uglier or play on the counter attack, if we get another winger in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darra Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Going on the away league games this season we definitely seem to leave ourselves too open in my opinion. However, CC doesn't like to go defensive, he likes to show what we can do to teams rather than being concerned about what they can do to us. Can we find a balance in the last 10 or so away games? We certainly need to start picking up more wins or we'll simply not make the play-offs. So how did we manage last season then? Different line up this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEnchanter Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Is this where the much sought after 'enforcer' comes into play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 When we take the game to the opposition, we are a better side than when we are trying to defend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevdi9 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 sitting back after going 1 up is no good for us we can't do it just lately our defence is very prone to a mistake or two as we keep finding out ,our strength is when we attack teams that is when we are most dangerous .the old *play to your strengths* comes to mind for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York_Owl Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 We weren't gung-ho at Reading last week when we tried to defend a single goal lead for an hour.But we had a more defensive line up with Bannan out wide and Forestieri in the number ten role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York_Owl Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 Going on the away league games this season we definitely seem to leave ourselves too open in my opinion. However, CC doesn't like to go defensive, he likes to show what we can do to teams rather than being concerned about what they can do to us. Can we find a balance in the last 10 or so away games? We certainly need to start picking up more wins or we'll simply not make the play-offs? It's probably as simple as playing the reading line up tho personally I prefer hutch at CB and Bannan CM, Forestieri at ten. However we would need another winger; judge would be ideal but hopefully Mcgeady can do the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 But we had a more defensive line up with Bannan out wide and Forestieri in the number ten role. We also played some slick attacking football early on and dominated the play, until we actually scored and then just sat back and invited Reading onto us for the rest of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike312 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 We have shown we can't sit back and defend a lead. Cc has said he'd rather win 5-4 but we seem to score one and then sit back (away) our best players are all attacking players so why not go for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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