Pretty much , yes. For instance once Lassogga came on Roofe dropped into the 3
behind the front man rather than joining Lassogga up top.The 3 behind the front
man do move around a lot and are interchangeable but we are basically playing
the same formation as got found out last year under Monk.That is why the 2
defensive midfielders are often overrunI did think following the comments
attributed to him in his interview for the job that TC would be much more
adaptable especially since he was supposedly a strict 4 4 2 man at his previous
job.
We do have to remember that he is totally inexperience in terms of Championship
football and is not that experienced as a manager overall so is still learning
his trade.
There is also the feeling around ER amongst fans (certainly the ones I speak to
) that this season is just one to lay the foundations for a real promotion push
next time, but we could be totally wrong in that idea. TO me it is very hard to
plan for the future in this way in our Division since any decent player is
always likley to leave for a Prem team (see Byram, Cook, and more recently Wood
and Taylor) How long will it be before Saiz or Pontus or maybe even Vieirra are
approached by a lower Prem team and find the lure too tempting (and who can
blame them ?)
TO me, IF we can find the players who can give us that bit more quality and
ensure we make the play offs we MUST go for them - poor January windows
prevented us in the past from really making the most of a good first half of
the season, but I do worry that this January will be no different and that the
Japanese lad who cannot play till next season (and even that depends on how
Japan fare in the FIFA rankings and how many games he plays for them) will be
the only addition
Dave
From: Greg Adams <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 January 2018, 12:07
Subject: Re: [LU] Forest
Cheers, Dave. Thanks as always for the reports. Am I right in thinking
TC always plays the 4-2-3-1 formation? Is there any indication that the
team is switching formations in the games?
Greg
On 02 Jan 2018 13:05, [email protected] wrote:
> A bit late with this one - yesterday was a long day and all the beer,
> morphine and lack of buses did not do me a lot of good !
> Anyway on to the game. One of those really mixed games, some good stuff, some
> very poor and at the end of it all two points dropped. It is hard when the
> opposition do not want to play - they stuck lots of men behind the ball and
> were niggly, dirty but very hard working throughout. This showed up our lack
> of guile and ingenuity. As others have said we need a quality midfield player
> - O'Kane and Phillips are too similar and both too lacking in certain areas.
> I thought the ref did us no favours - not sure how their number 2 (someone
> told me it was ex Leeds player Eric Lihaj) stayed on the pitch and the ref
> seemed to let a lot of stuff go but then managed to book Pontus for a tackle
> that looked fine from my spot, and then booked Saiz for arguing when he was
> definitely fouled in my view.
> None of that takes away the fact that we were disappointing for much of the
> game and whilst we always hoped and even thought we might score we were never
> really believing that we would. Again set pieces looked to be our best outlet
> but none of them quite worked out. First half the only real chance we had was
> a corner that Pontus headed with power but straight at the keeper who spilled
> it to Roofe who could only hook it over the bar
> Second half we did step it up at times and Roofe and Hernandez both should
> have scored when brilliant football by the mercurial Saiz (we cannot afford
> to lose him!) put them through on goal - Roofe hit the bar and Hernandez shot
> at the keeper. Lasogga also came close with a header from a cross by Sacko
> but it was just too high for him to get any power
> We were also guilty of some awfully wayward shooting - Phillips started this
> on the 47th minute when he blasted one high wide and not very handsome from a
> hundred yards out - ridiculous. His next attempt was closer both in where he
> shot from and where it ended up. Saiz, Roofe and Lassogga also had attempts
> from long range that threatened the crowd more than the goal
> At the other end Felix made three saves - a decent one in the first half, a
> good one that he tipped over the bar, and an everyday one that he parried out
> to our defender (thankfully) as Forest made no real attempt to win the game.
>
> So a poor start to the New year especailly when coupled with the defeat at
> Brum - of the last six matches these were the two real bankers and yet we
> only got one point from the six , thankfully we got 12 points from the other
> four. Two games without a goal is also not great to say the least.
>
> The 'wave your scarves' project looked decent again but not sure if it is
> going to be 'our thing' or if indeed we want it to be. I thought the crowd
> were very loud early doors but the atmosphere died as our football failed to
> impress.
> The fans have done their bit - another 30k plus crowd turning out to watch a
> game that was live on Sky so now it is over to Orta and Radz etc to make the
> most of the transfer window. I have heard lots of managers say that the
> January is hard and Orta in his long interview made the same points and
> indicated that we would not be planning to do much business in the window.
> Having said that we are still (just) in the play off position and only 6 pts
> off second (Wolves are untouchable) so if we can bring in the right couple of
> players we could make sure of a play off place minimum and that could be
> enough to get us up - the play offs being a bit of a lottery and anyone can
> win them (OK apart from us given our last four play off results - losing 3
> finals and one semi!)
> Anyway Happy New Year to all on the list and Leeds United fans wherever you
> are ALAW as they say !
> Dave
>
>
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