GreasyChipBeattie
Well-Known Member
Individual technical ability - check
Able to press successfully - check
Able to counter at pace - check
Strong, agile and quick thinking - check
Able to put corners and free kicks into dangerous areas - check
Prepared to defend like your life depends on it.
A half decent goal keeper and able to bounce back after a humiliating home defeat.
OK by now you've probably guessed I'm talking about the opposition today and not us.
We are slow, predictable and/or technically inept in far too many areas.
We simply cannot cope with being pressed, neither can we press effectively.
While ever we have a poor goalkeeper, a wasteful careless left back, a midfield of disinterested and easily dispossessed, or hit and miss ineffective frightened-to-run-forwards-with-the-ball players, and attackers who don't know whether to head it or kick it so end up doing neither, we will struggle...bad.
Clear the dross Slav, it's the only way.
Able to press successfully - check
Able to counter at pace - check
Strong, agile and quick thinking - check
Able to put corners and free kicks into dangerous areas - check
Prepared to defend like your life depends on it.
A half decent goal keeper and able to bounce back after a humiliating home defeat.
OK by now you've probably guessed I'm talking about the opposition today and not us.
We are slow, predictable and/or technically inept in far too many areas.
We simply cannot cope with being pressed, neither can we press effectively.
While ever we have a poor goalkeeper, a wasteful careless left back, a midfield of disinterested and easily dispossessed, or hit and miss ineffective frightened-to-run-forwards-with-the-ball players, and attackers who don't know whether to head it or kick it so end up doing neither, we will struggle...bad.
Clear the dross Slav, it's the only way.
