We've been pretty poor again so far this evening. Passes going astray, overhit crosses, poor set-pieces, players getting caught offside unnecessarily - just generally off the pace. Everything's so languorous and lacking in spark and quickness of thought - the amount of time we take over throw-ins, for example, is ridiculous.
It obviously isn't working. Surely Kenny won't wait before making changes tonight?
Don’t think Stevens or Christie are fully fit. Both not near their full pace. Strange game. Not awful but when we don’t score after a good start it’s same old story. Ref loves the Ukraine! Agree on Collins being at times incredible and then making really basic errors. Hoping to see a change or two to freshen it up again.
In fairness I never thought I'd say it but Bielsa is spot onQuote:
Originally Posted by Bielsa´s irish
Unchanged at HT. How long Kenny waits before making changes is really critical here, he always seems to wait too long.
Its the final third where we are being let down. Knight is not being supported by Ogbene or Robinson. Both had great chances to play balls through to a supporting runner and either didnt see it or fluffed the execution. Really disappointing. Knight very dynamic but his head seemed to drop a little as the half went on.
Stevens is terrible for the reasons i mentioned above and Christie hasnt done anything - good or bad.
In some ways we seem to recycle the ball for the sake of recycling it (quite a lot like Bohs over the last season and a half) which looks fine but doesnt achieve anything and gives the opposition too much time to find their shape. For that reason, I'd go a lot more direct in this half and play ball into the channels for our forward 2 to run onto.
If we really want to throw caution to the wind...
Ebosele or McClean to LWB, Obafemi for Ogbene and let Robinson roam in from wide positions (or for Robinson and let Ogbene stay out wide). I'd stick with Christie and put on Ebosele or McClean for him after 60 mins if no improvement.
Oh dear Kelleher…..
I’ve been Kenny in all along and still am but I’m going to start having doubts if changes aren’t made at half time, it’s quite evident that this will only end one of two ways at this rate and a Irish win isn’t one of the two likely results. Get someone like Obafemi and Parrott on and stop backing journeymen, I would shift Ogbene to RWB and take off Christie and get Robinson off.
Very silly goal to concede. Kelleher seems like he's expecting his defence to deal with it, and isn't ready for the possibility that they might not. Now what SK?
Sorry but a keeper shouldn't be getting beaten there
And that is why you need multiple senior league games to gain experience for crosses like that. Bad keeping. Travers and Bazunu clearly ahead of him until he starts regularly anywhere. Period.
Lol Karma for not changing things.
Rubbish.. Ogbene makes a hames of a cut back.. and Kelleher makes a balls of the cross
Im ready for the “reactive” substitutions from Kenny again, rather than the “proactive” ones needed at this level
Bad judgement from Kelleher there, crap goal to concede.
fupp me.. we're on a counter, Hendrick has Knight five yards ahead of him.. and he passes five yards back to Cullen
Duffy tests the keeper, one of only two players so far, correct? This has the makings of a bad night. The players look ****ed off, too much going to ground and throwing the arms up with the ref isn't interested. Get on with it.
We seem to be back to relying on set pieces to provide our only likelihood of a goal. We're so short of a goalscorer, it is killing anything Kenny is trying to do.
You don't see too many crosses like that quality to be fairQuote:
Originally Posted by tommy_c12000
Especially if you are not playing.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
We potentially have one on the bench but ofcourse we are still backing the journeymen who let Kenny down days ago…Quote:
Originally Posted by centre mid