Plan B

[slack_pie]

Nit sure if it constitutes a plan B, but most teams in L2 when needing a goal late on will go direct and launch balls into a big guy in the box. It's rather primitive but actually quite effective. Even if the target man doesn't win the header, the second ball is up for grabs in and around the area. We just don't do that.

Imagine if we'd been leading against Wimbledon with 15 mins to go. They would have absolutely bombarded our goals until we inevitably crumbled. When we needed a goal, we changed nothing.

[Med Pie]

Nit sure if it constitutes a plan B, but most teams in L2 when needing a goal late on will go direct and launch balls into a big guy in the box. It's rather primitive but actually quite effective. Even if the target man doesn't win the header, the second ball is up for grabs in and around the area. We just don't do that.

Imagine if we'd been leading against Wimbledon with 15 mins to go. They would have absolutely bombarded our goals until we inevitably crumbled. When we needed a goal, we changed nothing.

Exactly.

[upthemaggies]

Many a wise old manager has said that football is simple game. Far too many geeks involved now over-complicating it. When it reaches the point where almost everybody is doing the same thing (and we might be already there, even at this level), most teams are going to find that this approach fails, then fails again and keeps on failing.