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Was Jules at fault for first goal?
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 Booted Eagle  Bristol 28 Apr 14 5.47pm |
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Quote coachmatt at 28 Apr 2014 2.57pm
In my humble opinion as a Goal Keeping coach to Juniors:
a) Not at fault in my opinion. He was standing in the correct place to react to either a shot or cross. Scorer jumped up between two defenders (who could have intercepted ball or blocked his path to the ball)from an awesome pinpoint cross.
b) Striker headed the ball down and hard (like they're taught to) GK had no chance.
How do we stop these type of goals?
a) Mark the player attempting to pass the ball tighter (close his space to reduce his options).
b) The defenders on the striker need to get up in the air at the right time to defect the ball or at least prevent the ball from reaching their striker.
It was a superb cross and quality header - we've perhaps got to accept sometimes the quality that we are up against.
Unfortunately our defence wasn't its usual Iron Curtain self yesterday. Toure had all the steel and their quality showed as suggested.
“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
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| dg1937 28 Apr 14 6.10pm |
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I think this thread demonstrates that we've got so used to Jules pulling off miracle saves that some can't quite believe it when he doesn't.
As several others have said the fault was giving Toure too much time and space to pick out a perfect cross. The trajectory and pace of the cross meant Jules couldn't have got to it and the downward header was pretty much perfect. Dann or Mariappa needed to have got closer to Dzeko and put him under pressure, they only gave him a yard of space but it was enough.
The 'mistake' for the second goal was letting Toure bulldoze through the defence. The man's almost unstoppable when he's on a charge as plenty of other defenders have found out this season. I don't believe Jules had any chance with that goal either.
I didn't think City were at their best on Sunday but they have class all over the pitch, Toure in particular was the difference. Sometimes you just have to hold your hand up. Palace were not disgraced.
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