Quote Originally Posted by Andy1968 View Post
Just watch our marking in midfield though...it's laughable...jockeying side on to the ball so getting beat every time...I want to like Powell as he has some energy but he doesn't cut passing lanes or get a foot in and when he's beaten just jogs back looking lost. I so want us to be better and not grumble all the time but we are so poor everywhere across the whole team combined with this long hoofball from the keeper every time he gets it...I can't remember us being so bad offensively since The Mark Druce Andy Hayward times.
I don't blame the players for the inability of the midfield to mark. We play periods when we press energetically, but it's not consistent. This half we are in 'stand-off' mode, with the result that their players are able to move into space and no one seems to pick them up.

We don't mark tight, we don't press. You can't blame the hard-pressed midfield for not knowing what to do.

The quality of the passing is another conversation.