Blades v Bury - Match Highlights - The Goal

[Iceybabey]

Who plays at Bramhall Lane?

I Wrote it on a previous post and now I have adopted it. Sorry

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

I Wrote it on a previous post and now I have adopted it. Sorry

I like that. Think I'll use cunts instead of pigs.

 

[Damski]

Thank fuck EEL took the initiative tonight, because him and Fleck aside, nobody can take much credit from this.

Yes I went beserk when we scored, and I'm fucking chuffed with the victory, but it doesn't change the fact that it was a very disjointed display. We won't be playing relegation dogfight sides with 9 men forever....

This sums up my thoughts from last night - Absolute carnage in the Kop when the goal went in, most I've celebrated a goal all season, and a fantastic moment. But we were really lacking on clinical finishing. We got bodies in the box for all those crosses and nothing came of it, fair enough that was down to a good handful of saves from their keeper and a couple of goal line clearances, but still, a lot of huffing and puffing for nothing, then when they actually had a go at some 1 touch passing in the box to open up some space - the goal happens.

We were playing the wrong strategy against Bury. They came to snatch a point, and as such played a narrow, defensive game. We played into their hands by allowing them to force us on to the flanks and punt crosses in, when we should have been running at players and getting through the middle. There wasn't enough direct football, Bury were able to comfortably set up their defense while we wasted passes in midfield. If we'd have pushed more, threaded balls through the middle and not given them chance to regroup on 2nd and 3rd balls, we may have won 2 or 3 nil. We were fine against the team with the worst form in the division, but against a team who are actually trying to score, we may come a cropper by playing so conservatively.

 

[Bladesman]

Bladey Tube highlights:

 

[Pinchy]

I thought that was down to the poor quality of our previous goalkeepers?
On tv, every long-range shot ends in the goal.
In reality, attacking teams don't usually get anything back from a long-range shot, you're just surrendering possession.

I'm not against "having a pop" but players were being urged to shoot in circumstances where they were in no position to do so with any hope of success. Unless you are a truly exceptional player you have to 'give yourself a yard' and preferably have a sight of the target rather than a wall of opposition shirts. The numpties, instead of screaming "fucking shoot" may as well have shouted "fuckingiemagoalkick"

Now, whether we could have done a little more to create proper shooting opportunities, yes, but we're a work in progress.

 

[8lade]

That truly is cool football for the 93rd minutes and needing a goal.

 

[Grappler]

This sums up my thoughts from last night - Absolute carnage in the Kop when the goal went in, most I've celebrated a goal all season, and a fantastic moment. But we were really lacking on clinical finishing. We got bodies in the box for all those crosses and nothing came of it, fair enough that was down to a good handful of saves from their keeper and a couple of goal line clearances, but still, a lot of huffing and puffing for nothing, then when they actually had a go at some 1 touch passing in the box to open up some space - the goal happens.

We were playing the wrong strategy against Bury. They came to snatch a point, and as such played a narrow, defensive game. We played into their hands by allowing them to force us on to the flanks and punt crosses in, when we should have been running at players and getting through the middle. There wasn't enough direct football, Bury were able to comfortably set up their defense while we wasted passes in midfield. If we'd have pushed more, threaded balls through the middle and not given them chance to regroup on 2nd and 3rd balls, we may have won 2 or 3 nil. We were fine against the team with the worst form in the division, but against a team who are actually trying to score, we may come a cropper by playing so conservatively.

Said the same last night, that game was tailor made for a big, strong, attacking midfielder to run straight through the middle of the park and into the box, cause mayhem. They dealt with most of the crosses into the box because they were a group of big, tough players,

 

[bartman]

Could watch that a thousand times

. We were fine against the team with the worst form in the division, but against a team who are actually trying to score, we may come a cropper by playing so conservatively.

Surely the point is that if Bury had come out to attack and try and win the game we would have had more space and created more chances to (hopefully) score.

Any team that tries to attack will in effect play to our strengths

 

[sitwell]

I Wrote it on a previous post and now I have adopted it. Sorry

It was Brameel lane on Tuesday