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Originally posted by Painter
Benteke and Luka werent defenders, so whats your point? Anyway our key defensive lynch pin is out injured, Doucoure, its all gone tits up without him. Benteke was pretty much guaranteed to head the ball at corners at either end! He’d have made a decent centre half!
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Andersen and Guehi aren't as good as some initially thought. Slow and poor in the air. Add to this a keeper whose efforts to date are frankly risible, a left sided full back who keeps getting caught out with the ball to the back post, and we are where we are. At least there seems to be a positive in the right back position.
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Amen. One of our posters commented that we had the best triangle of keeper and CBs in the league. What happened?
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Originally posted by antipodeagle
That particular problem predates Roy. We were terrible from corners under PV as well. Roy hasn't been able to fix it. It started when PV changed our CB's from defenders to footballers .Possession football is all very well if you have got the ball ,its not a lot of cop when you haven't and your defenders can't defend . We not only concede easily at set pieces we never even win a header in open play .
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Originally posted by southnorwoodhill
Andersen and Guehi aren't as good as some initially thought. Slow and poor in the air. Add to this a keeper whose efforts to date are frankly risible, a left sided full back who keeps getting caught out with the ball to the back post, and we are where we are. At least there seems to be a positive in the right back position. Fair enough but in defence of our full backs they are asked to defend very narrowly (to help the CB's) which does leave the back post exposed to a decent cross .
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On the first goal Andersen should have been goal side of Dunk but instead stood in front of him. Schoolboy defending
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Richards should get a chance now with MG injured. He can’t be any worse and may actually play into our favour as he is better in the air.
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Originally posted by southnorwoodhill
Andersen and Guehi aren't as good as some initially thought. Slow and poor in the air. Add to this a keeper whose efforts to date are frankly risible, a left sided full back who keeps getting caught out with the ball to the back post, and we are where we are. At least there seems to be a positive in the right back position. Been saying that for a long time, even before this poor run. They’re both excellent footballers,but as far as good old fashioned defending is concerned they can be pretty poor at times. Just shows how much protection Doucoure gave them. Also PV’s first season with Gallagher covering the miles in midfield and us always looking to be on the front foot their frailties didn’t show
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Originally posted by EddieMac
Richards should get a chance now with MG injured. He can’t be any worse and may actually play into our favour as he is better in the air. Hmmm - remember the Emirates a couple of weeks ago ?
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Ward has many detractors on here and there's no doubt that he's not an attacking threat nor, at his age, a long term solution.
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Originally posted by PatrickA
Ward has many detractors on here and there's no doubt that he's not an attacking threat nor, at his age, a long term solution. I was thinking the same thing. We need grit. He has more than the rest put together. Others would need to cover the miles but I wouldn’t be offended if he came back in.
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Originally posted by EddieMac
Richards should get a chance now with MG injured. He can’t be any worse and may actually play into our favour as he is better in the air. On his past performance he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the RB position!
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