3-5-2 at home?

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Re: 3-5-2 at home?

Post by truewhite15 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:28 pm

What you're seeing here is how bad 3 at the back can get. Without proper wing backs as outlets, there is no pace, no width. Olkowski is trying manfully, but Grounds is totally pinned back on the other side.

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Re: 3-5-2 at home?

Post by twilight » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:31 pm

He has had a chance to play wing backs tonight if he wanted surely?

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Re: 3-5-2 at home?

Post by truewhite15 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:35 pm

twilight wrote:
Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:31 pm
He has had a chance to play wing backs tonight if he wanted surely?
Who? Mark Little on the right, maybe, though you'd be dropping Olkowski. But who on the left?

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Re: 3-5-2 at home?

Post by twilight » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:41 pm

I thought Olkowski played across the back 4...am I wrong? Mark Little right

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Re: 3-5-2 at home?

Post by truewhite15 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:43 pm

twilight wrote:
Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:41 pm
I thought Olkowski played across the back 4...am I wrong? Mark Little right
Olkowski could probably play CB at a push. I'm not aware of him ever playing LB, let alone LWB.

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Re: 3-5-2 at home?

Post by twilight » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:46 pm

ok fair enough, I thought I'd read he could play across the back 4

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Re: 3-5-2 at home?

Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:47 pm

truewhite15 wrote:
Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:43 pm
twilight wrote:
Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:41 pm
I thought Olkowski played across the back 4...am I wrong? Mark Little right
Olkowski could probably play CB at a push. I'm not aware of him ever playing LB, let alone LWB.
I think GhostoftheBok('s mate) said he had played on the left when they signed a new RB. Might be wrong.

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Re: 3-5-2 at home?

Post by TANGODANCER » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:55 pm

Questions:

Is Grounds suffering from Nerves and will he settle in and improve? Are his problems related to our defensive play and constant pressure (as the possession figures show) ? Boro have blatant wingers who Pulis must have thought could exploit such a set up as ours. If we are going to lose anyway, then why not do it for being a bit/lot more attack minded? If teams get edgy when attacked, then why not get in there first instead of waiting to be one/two goals down and facing uphill all the time? We lost no points by losing, just those around us who won are leaving us behind after such a good start. We surely can't blame any of that on money alone and neither can we lump it on Sammi's injury. Croatia reached the World Cup final and almost won it by constant attack and hassling the opposition all game, not for 20 minutes. Even our decent players are going to want out with persistently losing to soft goals and fortress, bus-parking mentality. We need to fight....
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