It’s a pre season friendly

[Bergen Blade]

If we've ever got into the idea, we need to get out of the idea of playing 3-5-2.

It has to be either 3-4-1-2 or 3-4-2-1.

Even in the promotion season the flat 3 saw us playing dogshit until Duffy came in and we went 3-4-1-2.

We looked to change to 3-4-2-1 after an hour at Mansfield, although Ndiaye and Brewster were swapped from the second line up above. We got Berge on the ball a couple of times (good run before Brewster's disallowed goal), but struggled defensively and conceded twice in ten minutes. A bit before the 75 minute drinking break we seemed to have scrapped it and gone back to 3-5-2. We kept that after that short break with Couliably, Arblaster and Fleck in midfield.

Barnsley will be the last chance to really test something other than 3-5-2.

I think the 3-4-2-1 can make us press better high up and possibly find more space in attacking central areas. But we will have to show we can cope defensively in that formation if it is to be a viable alternative.

 

[Davalon]

 

[jt64]

Too many bad penalties end up as goals, making the best of good fortune.

What happened to the good old days of always going for the corners?

Keepers started to realise that if you wait to react, you're not going to save any half decent pen, hence they started to gamble one way or another, either through prior analytics (cf. Forest's water bottle), or taking a best guess to dive to the dominant side. Hence if you hit one down the middle, you score pretty often, unless as in this instance the keeper has stayed where he is to balance his range, and the taker ends up looking like a bit of a tit. Simple game theory.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Has anyone missed a pre season game due to sunburn?

 

[Champagneblade]

Keepers started to realise that if you wait to react, you're not going to save any half decent pen, hence they started to gamble one way or another, either through prior analytics (cf. Forest's water bottle), or taking a best guess to dive to the dominant side. Hence if you hit one down the middle, you score pretty often, unless as in this instance the keeper has stayed where he is to balance his range, and the taker ends up looking like a bit of a tit. Simple game theory.

Of you hit them hard enough in the corners though the keeper can do what the fook he wants!

Duffield used to put them in the top corners. Keeper could guess right all he wanted!

 

[Varkanoid]

Has anyone missed a pre season game due to sunburn?

No but I missed watching the Lincoln one as I was working.

Oh you mean the players ?

 

[Brewster Cost £70 million]

Stick it on honours board

 

[SUFCScorecard]

I think the 3-4-2-1 can make us press better high up and possibly find more space in attacking central areas. But we will have to show we can cope defensively in that formation if it is to be a viable alternative.

100% agree. Berge is wasted playing CM, the game just passes him by and he looks like a bog-standard championship CM. Further forward he's a menace and can get us 15 goals this season, I hope we plan to to play 3-4-2-1 all season.

The real challenge is who pairs with Norwood. I assume a fit Doyle will do, but it remains to be seen when/if he stays fit, and whether he can do the job at this level. I know everyone is excited about him (me too) but we were also excited about Woodburn. I would really like us to bring in another at CM so we don't look quite so flimsy at that position.