27-08-2023, 11:32 AM
(27-08-2023, 10:21 AM)Gerry Hatrick Wrote:(27-08-2023, 08:43 AM)DeepBlue Wrote:(27-08-2023, 08:26 AM)D'Alessandro dreaming Wrote: It would be a bit risky to start playing a wing back system when we don't really have wing backs against some of the better teams in this division. If there is a time to experiment with that sort of thing it is those home games against the weaker sides.
Swanson & Sparkes are both wing backs. It is quite possible.
But why anyyone should be so keen to move to a more defensive formation with only 3 attacking players in the team when we are OK at the back but struggling for goals is beyond me.
And as yesterday proved yet again, creating the chances is not the problem. It's taking them.
Creating chances IS exactly the problem at the moment!
Is it really ? The fact is that we created 14 attempts on goal so that says otherwise, especially if you add the two Bishop failed by inches to get on the end of, and the two that Sparkes nearly got to at the far post, plus the worst miss of all by Kamara. Not bad stats away from home, nearly as many as we created against Cheltenham. It only needed one of those to go in and no-one would be moaning, but our finishing is letting us down. Again.
And yes, most of those were in the first half so the second half was indeed poor but once again the game got disrupted by the sendings off and yet another ref injury, which doesn't help the rhythm of the game.