Name ONE tactical error Selles makes - see how many we can get too!

[CarlMcBlade]

A good team should be full of little partnerships all across the pitch…The centre back pairing, the wingers and their wing backs and the midfield combinations were all like total strangers today.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Completely vacates the middle of the pitch O’Hare and Hamer naturally push too high up that leaves his holding midfielder (Peck or Soumare) completely isolated when we turn over possession (which we do a lot) this then means that the two advanced midfielders are completely out of the game and the opposition midfield can either run or pass around his holding player at will.

This also means we struggle to retain the ball as when the holding player receives the ball if he is pressed effectively the opposition can close the passing lanes to the two more advanced midfielders taking them out of the game completely either forcing the holding player to play backwards or side ways.

Having the two advanced midfielders so high up also clogs up the top of the pitch. We’re playing two inverted wide forwards whose instinct is to cut in on their favoured foot and drive towards the box in the channel between the CB and the fullback. However that space is already occupied by the advanced midfielder so when we do attack you make it nice and easy for the full back as both attacking players and in the same areas of the pitch so he can coordinate with his CB to contest that space even more and just mop it up. If you want to push our fullback up to try and create on overlap to compensate for this then yours leaving that entire side of the pitch wide open for a counter. This also seems to be having the effect that the wide players are staying wide to try and find space and that’s leaving the lone striker very isolated.

Just play a holding 2 for fucks sake and only one of Hamer or O’Hare as the 10 that frees up space for the wide forwards to cut inside and support the striker and lets our fullback overlap to create overloads outside without leaving us wildly exposed as the holding midfielder on that side can drop in to cover.

I think this is a really good analysis of our biggest problem. As soon as we saw the line up today I thought we were going to lose. I'm not wedded to the idea of playing two wide men, but it would surely work better with two deep midfielders and letting Hamer be the free man further forward.

Not only that but Selles never makes any attempt to change this basic shape of the team. Why bring Cannon or One on when we're losing and stick them out on the wing? Surely we'd be better if we tried two up top.

We've far better players than Wednesday and have about 16 players who could walk into their side, but incredibly even they look a better team than us.

 

[ATL Recs]

Playing Hamer as a sweeper (that’s how it appears )

 

[djbaldken]

Continues to insist on playing out from the back!

Our players aren't capable of doing this. Before we've gone 20 yards we've lost possession. So almost straight away we are on the back foot under the cosh again.
I fully understand the reasons for playing out from the back. In theory it means you keep possession. But our standard of players CANT keep possession.
I know with the long ball out its 50/50 who gets possession. But then youre 50 yards away from your goal with more of a chance of regaining the ball.
Our defense is under pressure straight away and ends up long balling it anyway. So FFS do it from the restart!!

 

[metalblade]

Well he picked the team to start with and of course that lame line up took 41mins to have a shot. He could have changed it at HT when we were lucky to still be 0-0 but no he waits until 58mins to bring on Oné for Barrie. Fair play to Oné he put our only two crosses into the box. On 69mins he brings on the hopeless Tom Cannon and leaves Ings sat on the bench. On 78 mins he brings on 3 subs, McCallum for Godfrey despite him looking lost at RB last game, Chong for O'Hare fair enough I guess and finally brings on Ings for Brooks but by this time nobody in the ground had a clue what the formation was or what he was trying to do even if they did at the start.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

We currently rely on Hamer to dictate play, whilst being at risk of selling (and not replacing) Hamer.

 

[moody1889]

Playing players out of position we have not had a a shot on target in 2 games and scored 1 goal in the league and conceded 7 that is horrific.

 

[Tony Currie]

Playing Hamer too deep.