from fulham's point of view, easy all too fucking easy. I'm sure the media will praise fulham's solidity but we handed that point to fulham on a plate.
I remember listening to a liverpool football match where ronnie moran with the pundit and you could here the frustration in his voice, 'where are you going, pass it', 'give it easy'. everything was slow and pounderous and for a man breed on pass and move it must have been difficult to watch.
and that was liverpool today, too slow, too ponderous and a fucking piece of PISS to defend against.
when they have parked the bus you need to do the following;
1) move together in units
play one touch triangles in and around them to drag them out of position. pull the center backs out to the flanks.
2) stretch them by switching play
if it is congested on one side of the pitch switch it to the other side of the pitch, the opposition will get tired chasing the ball and eventually will make mistakes
3) get the center backs to take the ball as far up the pitch as possible
if they pass the ball to others rather than moving forwards with the ball themselves the opposition dont have to break up their defensive positions, the second a center back moves forwards they (opposition) HAVE to break formation to engage them (center backs)
4) get players to take the ball down the line and drag the ball back into the penalty box
seriously how much of the above did we do? did fulham look stretched at any point in the game?
too much of the play went through the middle so fulham didn't have to break formation.
too many touches on the ball so fulham had the time to get back and organise themselves.
too many crosses from deep which was frankly idiotic when their center back is 6 foot fucking five.
all too fucking easy.
moving onto to rafa subs, what was the is the point of subbing like for like when fulham have clearly come for a point? carra and the greek aren't going to give you anything going forwards and in regards to fulham's attacking intent our center backs may as well have tea on the edge of our penalty area so fucking take one of them off, move agger into the center who WILL give you something going forwards and bring on another attacker, fuck getting caught on the break, a point is no good to us now it really should be all or nothing. kuyt for aqua, yossi for babel, ngog for patches is not adding attacking impetus. you bring on more attacking players and they will be further up the pitch where they can hurt teams with sheer numbers or a moment of magic.
we had loads of attempts but how many of those where speculative shots from distance? we needed to gamble more and we need to show more ambition.
rafa may as well concentrate on europa now because 4th has well and truly gone and if we aren't finishing 4th I don't really give a fuck where we finish in the league.
lastly I think insua is a rubbish fullback but he would have allowed agger to move into the middle so the greek wouldn't have been needed leaving agger to defend higher up the pitch and start attacks, and insua would have supported the attackers better than agger did. all in all a very frustarting game.
I remember listening to a liverpool football match where ronnie moran with the pundit and you could here the frustration in his voice, 'where are you going, pass it', 'give it easy'. everything was slow and pounderous and for a man breed on pass and move it must have been difficult to watch.
and that was liverpool today, too slow, too ponderous and a fucking piece of PISS to defend against.
when they have parked the bus you need to do the following;
1) move together in units
play one touch triangles in and around them to drag them out of position. pull the center backs out to the flanks.
2) stretch them by switching play
if it is congested on one side of the pitch switch it to the other side of the pitch, the opposition will get tired chasing the ball and eventually will make mistakes
3) get the center backs to take the ball as far up the pitch as possible
if they pass the ball to others rather than moving forwards with the ball themselves the opposition dont have to break up their defensive positions, the second a center back moves forwards they (opposition) HAVE to break formation to engage them (center backs)
4) get players to take the ball down the line and drag the ball back into the penalty box
seriously how much of the above did we do? did fulham look stretched at any point in the game?
too much of the play went through the middle so fulham didn't have to break formation.
too many touches on the ball so fulham had the time to get back and organise themselves.
too many crosses from deep which was frankly idiotic when their center back is 6 foot fucking five.
all too fucking easy.
moving onto to rafa subs, what was the is the point of subbing like for like when fulham have clearly come for a point? carra and the greek aren't going to give you anything going forwards and in regards to fulham's attacking intent our center backs may as well have tea on the edge of our penalty area so fucking take one of them off, move agger into the center who WILL give you something going forwards and bring on another attacker, fuck getting caught on the break, a point is no good to us now it really should be all or nothing. kuyt for aqua, yossi for babel, ngog for patches is not adding attacking impetus. you bring on more attacking players and they will be further up the pitch where they can hurt teams with sheer numbers or a moment of magic.
we had loads of attempts but how many of those where speculative shots from distance? we needed to gamble more and we need to show more ambition.
rafa may as well concentrate on europa now because 4th has well and truly gone and if we aren't finishing 4th I don't really give a fuck where we finish in the league.
lastly I think insua is a rubbish fullback but he would have allowed agger to move into the middle so the greek wouldn't have been needed leaving agger to defend higher up the pitch and start attacks, and insua would have supported the attackers better than agger did. all in all a very frustarting game.
