Cambridge Vs Bolton: Match Thread

Very good summary rtf and illustrates my point that no striker is going to be successful without either being played to his strengths or heavily assisted by the players around him providing chances. For me our strikers are wasted chasing around defenders instead of working on being in the right place, you can’t do both. Concentration is essential and if you know where your colleagues are going to put the ball you can anticipate it and work on being there but if your attention is constantly on chasing after a defender you’re rarely going to be in the right position and when you are you’ll just snatch at it which is what’s happening. I know Evatt has a system he wants to play and sometimes you have to persevere until it’s right but for me at the moment, we’re going backwards instead of getting better. It also means we don’t play players who don’t adapt like Dapo, Sadlier and John whilst playing the “workers” like Charles, Kachunga and Iredale. We’re not even a patch on what we were last season and I’m certain that if we were able to play ourselves from then, this current team would lose comfortably. We might be 7th in the league but which of us can seriously say that it’s not without a fair amount of good fortune? I’ll still back Evatt to get it right but he has to lose his ego first, accept he needs to change his plan and at least start our best players in their best positions.

exactly Rioch, don't know if you saw Match of the day at the wk/end with City v Brentford.
Brentford murdered them as they just weren't willing to fall into their traps.
here's some hi-lites of it i've found off youtube. unfortunately it goes into some weird 9 screen cam
probably to avoid copyright issues. but love that bit at 1.32.
Brentford goalkick...are they gonna be stupid enough to walk straight into the press, and play out from the back.
no they are not. City commit men upfield. so best thing to do..wallop...........bypass the bloody lot of them
hit Toney who is great for winning aerials.
3rd best stats in the Div for aerials won. Mitrovic also a beast in the air, which is a big reason why Fulham will probably stay up too.
Fulham are clever with their style. not all long. play a fair bit of footie, but not afraid to use the aerials too.

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I think about pressing a bit like -coming to the net at tennis. if you've got someone on the back foot, you can advance and get into the net.
which is effectively what you're doing when you push up to pin someone in. if you advance to the net, you'd got to be sure you can't be lobbed, otherwise you are in trouble.
it's just utter madness from a re-start, like a goal kick, to volunteer yourself into that heavy press, when they 've got 4 or 5 waiting for you. it'd be like someone
serving really short in tennis to your opponent pushed up high to the net, waiting for you to hit it short, so they could instantly clobber your ball
out for a winner. how demoralising for Citeh must it have been, to set up with 4 or 5 high up the pitch at each goal kick, to instantly be
bypassed. you're killing their strategy and making them look like mugs. it's not about long or short, right or wrong, it's just good tactics.
force your opponent to do something they don't want to be doing. Brentford are not going to win against them by outpassing them. it wasn't all big hoof,
the other goal was a clever counter using pace & almost got another in same style. etc. but the 1st was a set piece and aerial. BSA must have been rubbing his hands if he watched it. doesn't work now does it, game moved on has it !??


clearer vid here, but just the main chances, not tactical stuff. 8 shots on target they had AWAY at man city & many were big chances. don't know how they cocked up that last one. should have been 1-3.

I suspect the reputed £600k a week Ronaldo is on may have something to do with it?? 🥴

Looks like Luton are going for Rob Edwards. Who has landed two jobs a league above this season.

Do think it would be a good way to part if a club came in. Amicable. Let him move on, bit of money back for him and his staff, do they want Santos in Jan? £1M will do nicely and we look for a team with the appetite to start with basics and build up. Rather than Pretend Pep.

I'd happily see him at Wigan. James Mclean might not

Sure FV are wondering where the bids are. This really is supposed to be phase 2. They must wonder why thier assets Dapo, Morley are on the bench and Charles badly misfiring .

I don't know too much about Fleetwood. Scott Brown and Josh Vela in makes me think that theyll have a certain way of playing that doesn't bode well for us.

Really got very little faith atm, draw?