All hail the defensive gods

[joellufcprice]

Beat Burnleh at their own game, sit deep and soak up pressure. Just need a few more long balls. Shame we don't have a donkey like Wood upfront to miss chances either.

ALAW, **** off back over the pennines you poxy ****houses

[pete1967b]

Regardless of people having a go at Phillips, He and Ayling were superb defensively today, I feared their set pieces today but not once after the first one was i worried, Burnley were not bad in second half, maybe if they play football on ground they will do better, All in all brilliant and massive 3 pts, Job well done.

[WTF11]

Regardless of people having a go at Phillips, He and Ayling were superb defensively today, I feared their set pieces today but not once after the first one was i worried, Burnley were not bad in second half, maybe if they play football on ground they will do better, All in all brilliant and massive 3 pts, Job well done.

Haven't seen any posts having a go at Phillips, but agree that today he was immense, as was Ayling, adopting positions neither are exactly accustomed to, and really pleased that Struijk got a real opportunity to step up and be regarded as a 1st team regular, not just a stand-in. Can't expect them all to be "on song" every match, as long as they put a shift in that what we CAN expect.

[spaldy]

Strujik seemed solid as well.

they definitely were attacking the second half but he seemed to keep his composure.

[WTF11]

Strujik seemed solid as well.

they definitely were attacking the second half but he seemed to keep his composure.

100% agree, should be given much more game time.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

100% agree, should be given much more game time.

Big unit physically and can head the ball well in addition to being able to play. Injuries could allow him to force his way into more game time. Cresswell and Casey impressing in the U23 too and both bigger physically which is sometimes maybe what we lack.

[asturianblanco]

like what ive seen of cresswell.

[UbiqueLUFC33]

Maybe one day Sicknote Llorente will last more than a few minutes?

Phillips, Ayling and Strujk were all excellent. Phillips seemed to be playing as a sweeper at times and he reads the game and cuts out potential threats far better than anyone else we have. Unfortunately we miss him setting up forward transitions; particularly since Klich couldn't pass his way out of a paper bag at the moment. What we need to do is clone Phillips and play him in 3 different positions - easy.

[joellufcprice]

Regardless of people having a go at Phillips, He and Ayling were superb defensively today, I feared their set pieces today but not once after the first one was i worried, Burnley were not bad in second half, maybe if they play football on ground they will do better, All in all brilliant and massive 3 pts, Job well done.

Ayling to be fair to him has always done his best just sadly his best isn't always good enough but against Burnley it was.