Ebosele must look crap in training or something.
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Ebosele must look crap in training or something.
Not that there is any dangerQuote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
But am I right in saying obafemi after today will be permanently a rep of Ireland player? With no other options
Yep, today is his 3rd appearance after turning 21. He's locked in if he plays today.
Wouldn't be worrying as you said though!
Kelleher
Browne
Duffy
Egan
Collins
McClean
Cullen
Molumby
Knight
Obafemi
Parrott
Browne at RWB, even though he’s played there, is baffling ahead of Festy. Rest of it: whatever, we’ll see how it goes.
That’s official line out or expected from Dan McD?
O’Shea for Duffy, Ebosele for Browne and that is a solid side. Alan Browne at RWB, has Kenny lost his marbles? Love the Cullen, Molumby, Parrott, Obafemi, Knight selection.
Ukraine with a stronger but not full-strength team against Armenia today - Yarmolenko an unused sub but Zinchenko played most of the match.
They won 3-0, so that helps us in the goal difference stakes at least. But I think they'll have a stronger lineup on Wednesday than they did last week
I like the team. Could it be a 433 with Collins right back and Browne in midfield 3?
Could be, but I would be surprised
I watched it here this morning. I won’t say they were lucky, they were by far the better side, but Armenia were resilient and Ukraine found them fairly difficult to break down for large parts of the game. Armenia had a great chance to equalize but keeper clawed it back.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
At one point, I thought to myself, I might have to correct myself with Pineapple that maybe we are in actual relegation trouble. Thank god they scored and spared me the shame :D
Official. It’s being presented as a 3-4-3Quote:
Originally Posted by tommy_c12000
I'd like to see that team as a narrow front 2 with parrott Central behind obafemi and then knight as the more advanced of the midfield 3 not a front 3. Leaves space out wide when we attack for the full backs to push high and get into. I'd like to see Cullen not drop back onto duffys toes which turns us into a back 6 . That set up let's us join the midfield to the front and gives is some chance of having some midfield control
I think we are in relegation trouble to be honest, which is why its absolutely imperative that we get something from todays gameQuote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
It's looking likely that neither us or Armenia will get anything from Ukraine or Scotland.. so relegation could be down to H2H.. and there's no guarantee we'd beat Armenia by two clear goals
My biggest fear for this evening is that Shane Duffy hears so many Scottish accents... and turns into the "Celtic" Shane Duffy
Spot on.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
He already is…Quote:
Originally Posted by Insidetherock
Why call Festy up and not even put him on the bench? He could have played for the U21’s, but actually should be on the pitch ahead of Browne. This is a deeply depressing and regressive selection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
Agree with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommy_c12000
James McClean...
Agree with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
Hopefully it'll be more of the 3-4-2-1 you describe or a 3-5-2 than the tried-and-failed 3-4-3.
We need to be a lot more compact - both offensively and defensively - play a higher defensive line than we've seen (difficult with Duffy in the team, as he likes to drop off), compress the space a lot more and attempt to press - as a unit - higher up the park. Whatever happened to the high press Kenny initially promised by the way? The long-range strikes we've been conceding aren't simply misfortune , as Kenny has suggested, but a direct result of our lack of compactness in midfield. We developed a soft centre; it's too easy to get at our backline, and that needs to change
As you say, we need to keep our wingbacks as high and wide as possible, which we haven't been doing. I totally agree that in the 3-4-3 we've been playing, rather than dovetailing with the wingbacks the wide forwards are both ineffective and getting in the wingbacks' space.
I believe Ebosele would have given Robertson, or whoever, a far more difficult time than Browne will, whose skillset, such as it is, seems totally unsuited to a wingback role. I've got no idea what Kenny's thinking is there.
Please remove Duffy now if Kenny wants to persist with playing football, he cannot be on the pitch
Absolutely disastrous. A liability to the way SK wants us to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommy_c12000
But Kenny by picking Duffy as continued to give the impression that it’s okay to keep screwing up as he won’t be punished. It willQuote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Probably take a goal coming from Duffy’s mistake for action to be taken.
Yessssssssss
Now, ten behind the ball
We’ll take it
That's one of the worst goals I've seen. He scored it by accident almost.
But beggars definitely can't be choosers!
Except (and call this a damning indictment of the Kenny method if you want) Duffy remains by far and away our offensive weapon.
No player had more touches in the opponent's penalty area than Duffy against Ukraine, and he was closer to scoring than any other player too.
If we could get more balls into the box, Gordon doesnt look up to much at all
O’Shea, Egan, or Collins would have provided that assist too. Pity Browne scored it and not one of our up and coming. Good start though, let’s see if they can keep it up
It’s been 50/50 for the most part. Not playing great but nice to fckin score anyway.
What would Kenny's record be like without Duffy's goals and assists? It's brutal enough as it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommy_c12000
Normally we’d be the ones conceding these goals! Nice for the shoe to be on the other foot for a change!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Why hasn’t Duffy been removed yet? Please explain… unless Kenny wants to go hoof ball
What a goal
What a goal. Super play from Obafemi, great finish from Parrott
Eh up.
Long live King Kenny!
Came here to bitch about Duffy, realize we scored!
That’s part of the reason come the new season I’d seriously considering bringing Mark McGuinness in, he seems like the kind of player in time that could replace Duffy plus he’s so much better on the ball!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
Great stuff!