10 game review

[laddo]

A thought provocing post from Nigel especially the first sentence.

4-4-2 was never in the plan, probably never considered and we shouldn't try and get to that formation IMO.

3-5-2, 4-3-3 and variations of those were however and can still work with some fine tuning. Last night appeared not to be about the above though more the (lack of) mentality , lack of experience and professionalism, poor game management from players, good finishing and coach, plus never coming to terms with the loss of a GK and 2 CBs simultaneously. The last two games could easily have been very different if any of the above had been significantly improved. I realise that offers very little crumbs of comfort but the contrast of first 70 and last 20 minutes of the last two games couldn't have been starker if you wrote the script yourself.

[the_anticlough]

3-5-2, 4-3-3 and variations of those were however and can still work with some fine tuning. Last night appeared not to be about the above though more the (lack of) mentality , lack of experience and professionalism, poor game management from players, good finishing and coach, plus never coming to terms with the loss of a GK and 2 CBs simultaneously.

Good summary. I think Nigel is wrong. We played 4-2-3-1 last night. It wasn't the problem at all and R and R fit very nicely into it...and both did well...
To add to your list on why we failed, I'll say 3 or 4 very poor individual performances we're sprinkled in there

I think he's right about planning for a formation and abandoning it, though. This is an almighty f*** up. Some breakdown between club executives, recruitment and coaching team that left us without key players for the chosen system. If the squad's going to be this small, we didn't need both of Nemane and Mitchell, another holding midfielder and a proper RWB were higher priorities

[Elite_Pie]

Good summary. I think Nigel is wrong. We played 4-2-3-1 last night. It wasn't the problem at all and R and R fit very nicely into it...and both did well...
To add to your list on why we failed, I'll say 3 or 4 very poor individual performances we're sprinkled in there

I think he's right about planning for a formation and abandoning it, though. This is an almighty f*** up. Some breakdown between club executives, recruitment and coaching team that left us without key players for the chosen system. If the squad's going to be this small, we didn't need both of Nemane and Mitchell, another holding midfielder and a proper RWB were higher priorities

Obviously formations and tactics are very important, but so is guts, passion and desire. We only seem bothered with the first part, but it’s not working because our opponents also focus heavily on the second part.

[jacobncfc]

Obviously formations and tactics are very important, but so is guts, passion and desire. We only seem bothered with the first part, but it’s not working because our opponents also focus heavily on the second part.

I think it can be too easy sometimes to put everything down to guts, passion and desire. If anything last night I would say we got too interested in getting involved in a scrap following their red card, when we just needed to use our brains to win the game.

[Rainbowpie]

Good summary. I think Nigel is wrong. We played 4-2-3-1 last night. It wasn't the problem at all and R and R fit very nicely into it...and both did well...
To add to your list on why we failed, I'll say 3 or 4 very poor individual performances we're sprinkled in there

I think he's right about planning for a formation and abandoning it, though. This is an almighty f*** up. Some breakdown between club executives, recruitment and coaching team that left us without key players for the chosen system. If the squad's going to be this small, we didn't need both of Nemane and Mitchell, another holding midfielder and a proper RWB were higher priorities

I agree that R&R fit well into the 4-2-3-1 formation going forward but defensively the 3 offer no protection to the 2 midfielders and full backs.
This is partially down to IB wanting to focus on creating attacks rather than players dropping back to close gaps but sometimes this is needed to close games out
Some players last night looked lost in no mans land