31 Oct 2020 00:48:44
Guys i've purposely waited till a good performance before commenting over the last few weeks.
I want to make 3 points.
First is our formation, i want to go 433.
I think this will suit our style and players.
Also playing this way we can let teams come onto us a bit more and defend from 40 -50 yards out be more compact and if we steal the ball there we have open grass to run into which will suit the pace we have.
Imagine we have eddy griff and forest for eg waiting to pounce or
eddy moi and ryan.
Depending on oppononents ryan and moi for eg can slip into more midfield positions to defend, i feel it makes us more fluid.
Same with midfield, calmac ryan rogic is very attacking but calmac soro brown against tougher teams so much more fluid again.
Point 2. Shane duffy. Never agreed with this signing simply because he is a backs to wall defender. Wants to defend his own box, where we defend very high up the pitch and Duffy does not want that. He has played for teams all his career who are more defensive. 433 may help that right enough.
Then again playing tough opponents like Lille he made 3 glaring schoolboy mistakes in first 30 mins or so.
Number 1 in first 10 mins he goes chasing a header in rb position taking himself out the game when he missed it.
Resulting corner gave Lille a huge opprtunity to score as they
had 3 or 4 strikes on goal and we got lucky to survive.
2 he dived in to his first tackle 25 yrds out and gave away a dangerous free kick.
3. The penalty. Yea ok. it wasnt but still a stupid foul to give away when no danger.
In Europe against tough teams u make 3 mistakes like that usually you lose goals. Amazingly some said he had a good game. Simply not good enough. Imo he only playing cis nobody else available.
3. Scott Brown. Now here is my thoughts. 2-0 up and your thinking well SB is in the team its perfect for him as we will drop off and he can organise cajole and harry the life out of them.
Nope didn't happen, too many times they got thro us and we didn't press them 30 -40 yrds out. We let them get 25 out before we engaged.
On a few occasions they crossed we headed it out and it came to a Lille player. I only saw calmac race out to engage. Brown was either walking out or jogging. That tells me his legs are gone, he looked done when he got subbed. Again these type of mistakes get punished at this level.
Now all of this may sound harsh but its what i saw and we can't keep ignoring these obvious mistakes.
Only by removing the mistakes/ players do we get better. The performance was def better but just think how much better it could have been.
Surely Lennon must be seeing this, its time to get younger fitter players in the team.
31 Oct 2020 07:45:34
We don't play a 433 it's a 4231 formation. Duffy is a coo and his loan should be terminated with immediate effect. I was saying this at work the other day that we never press teams. I think with Lennon's training methods the team wouldn't be fit enough to play a high press!
31 Oct 2020 09:30:16
Aye malky cracking idea terminate his contract with two of our centre half’s our injured . Hopefully he comes on to a game I still feel he can do a job so you not?
31 Oct 2020 10:14:34
He’ll settle down soon, his defending has been erratic at times but I think he’s trying too hard to make his move permanent that he’s making rash decisions. I’ve been too critical of him and Lennon but I’m putting that down to my own nerves this season.
31 Oct 2020 10:52:43
I feel for the guy as he was so keen to join us and actually started out very well - with a couple of goals - but his defending and decision-making are well short of an International player at present.
We are very thin on the ground for CH's so he needs to settle down and just get the basics right and show his character.
31 Oct 2020 11:05:24
Celtic mad there is a good player he just needs to keep it simple no rashness.
31 Oct 2020 11:41:57
I agree with Brown, he’s a player down in midfield (still better than Ntcham) when we are playing majority of sides that we will have majority of ball against so I’d go Christie and Mcgregor with Rogic in the CAM against most teams and play Brown in games where we are on the back foot just sitting in front of back 4 in a 4-1-4-1 formation.
31 Oct 2020 12:33:44
It’s positive news that Ajer is in the squad for the game tomorrow.
I feared he would be out for a month or two.
I would play Bitton and rest Ajer.
31 Oct 2020 13:06:09
Gggg that’s what I sayed mgregor rogic and Christie midfield 3.
31 Oct 2020 13:52:35
Rogic should be gone. No where near good enough to hold down the no. 10 role. Poor assist and goal record never mind his injury record. Agree with the posts around fitness though. Standards have definitely dropped since NL came back.