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Thread: Bulgaria V Republic of Ireland - Thursday, 3rd September 2020 - UEFA Nations League

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    Quote Originally Posted by geysir View Post
    Midfield and holding onto possesion was always our bone of contention and now our salvation is to play with 3 up front

    When Bulgaria scored, most of the focus went on who made the last mistake, who can we blame, the useless so and so.
    The first mistake was the suicidal cross field pass, bad mistakes in midfield can happen but then whatshisnameov received the ball in an acre of space and could deliver the peach perfect pass though the gap between the centre halfs, because we had no covering midfielder who would have been in that space ready to put pressure on him.
    The midfield 3 were working on different scripts.
    iI the 2 or 3 televised games i saw with Jack Byrne, he likes to receive the ball anywhere on the pitch. To claim he's not of the standard to play against Bulgaria or Slovakia for that matter doesn't make sense.
    I think he just doesn't fit into this particular vision of 433.
    The last line is where I'd disagree with you. Kenny built his first league-winning Dundalk team around Richie Towell doing exactly what Byrne does - basically being the first link with the defence and the last link with the attack. He changed after Towell left not because he'd changed his ideas but because he didn't have anybody as good as Towell.

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