Chutney
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Wasn't that in a 4 though. Am hoping this formation sticks.Before Jones injury, I recall Ayling playing deeper down the right, feeding Jones the ball higher up and doing well.
* The Unofficial "Official" Boro v QPR [03/24] Match-Day Thread *
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I am hoping this formation changes as a good team today would have run us ragged as there was so much room down our wings so easy to get in on goal as the radio commentary said.
Glover_elbow
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Having dieng back makes a massive difference. The calmness he brings is fantastic we seem to have sorted the playing out from the back dropping glover and Barlaser
r00fie1
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As it stands:
Three points off Cardiff and Preston with a game in hand.
We also have a better goal difference compared to both of them.
Preston's upcoming games are against those in the bottom half of the table, battling for their lives.
They finish the season against Leicester[Home] and West Brom[Away], so don't worry about them.
Three points against Brum and three at home to Blackburn, could see us only a matter of a few points off the top six with eight games to go.......
Could we.....?
We also have a better goal difference compared to both of them.
Preston's upcoming games are against those in the bottom half of the table, battling for their lives.
They finish the season against Leicester[Home] and West Brom[Away], so don't worry about them.
Three points against Brum and three at home to Blackburn, could see us only a matter of a few points off the top six with eight games to go.......
Could we.....?
sherlock
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We don’t have a game in hand on Preston.
BoroMart
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Yes, he was a 7, tired badly I thought at about 60 mins,worked hard wnough but wasn’t particularly influential today
BoroMart
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Horses for courses
But true.
r00fie1
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Perhaps I should have made that clearer for you.
That's why I pointed out we shouldn't worry about them - because they won't win their final games.
sherlock
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You mean you got it wrong?
Rofesleg
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Or you maybe shouldn't have said we have a game in hand on them. That would have been clearer. And more factual.
r00fie1
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"Preston's upcoming games are against those in the bottom half of the table, battling for their lives.
They finish the season against Leicester[Home] and West Brom[Away], so don't worry about them."
Means they have no chance of being a threat because all the clubs they face are having to battle to
stay up and their last two are against West Brom and Leicester - so they are no threat [Game in hand or not]
sherlock
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"Preston's upcoming games are against those in the bottom half of the table, battling for their lives.
They finish the season against Leicester[Home] and West Brom[Away], so don't worry about them."
Means they have no chance of being a threat because all the clubs they face are having to battle to
stay up and their last two are against West Brom and Leicester - so they are no threat [Game in hand or not]
r00fie1
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r00fie1
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Marti Cifuentes discusses Middlesbrough's tactics in Loftus Road win
QPR boss Marti Cifuentes felt the switch to a five-man defence was the key to Middlesbrough’s 2-0 victory at Loftus Road yesterday.
Cifuentes’ side went into the game in excellent form, having lost just one of their previous nine matches, but they were outplayed as second-half goals from Emmanuel Latte Lath and Marcus Forss earned Boro a deserved success.
Having played with a flat back four for the vast majority of the season, Michael Carrick switched to a back five for last week’s home win over Norwich and opted to stick with the same formation against QPR.
And while Cifuentes anticipated that Boro would line up with a five-man backline, he accepts his side’s failure to come to grips with the Teessiders’ system was a major factor in determining the final outcome.
“There are many factors,” said the QPR boss. “The first is that they (Boro) defended very well in a back five, which is something they have done in recent games.
“They lost three with a back four and then won two with a back five. We expected them to play that way, but with the fixtures as they were, there was not much time to plan for how to attack that of defence.
“We struggled to beat them after creating a couple of good chances early on. In the second half, we wanted to introduce a little more energy at a moment that the game was turning, but it was not good enough.”
Cifuentes also bemoaned his side’s defending for both of Boro’s goals, with Latte Lath scoring the first after Matt Clarke recycled a cross back into the box and Forss heading home the second after he was left unmarked at the back post.
“The first goal comes from a sloppy goal conceded, and we don’t defend well in the second phase,” he said. “The second goal comes as we’re trying to attack, but there was just no clear way of how to beat that back five that stayed very low, with two fast players at the top of the pitch.
“You have to try and keep that balance to not concede while still trying to chase the game. In the end, it was not a great game.”
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Cifuentes’ side went into the game in excellent form, having lost just one of their previous nine matches, but they were outplayed as second-half goals from Emmanuel Latte Lath and Marcus Forss earned Boro a deserved success.
Having played with a flat back four for the vast majority of the season, Michael Carrick switched to a back five for last week’s home win over Norwich and opted to stick with the same formation against QPR.
And while Cifuentes anticipated that Boro would line up with a five-man backline, he accepts his side’s failure to come to grips with the Teessiders’ system was a major factor in determining the final outcome.
“There are many factors,” said the QPR boss. “The first is that they (Boro) defended very well in a back five, which is something they have done in recent games.
“They lost three with a back four and then won two with a back five. We expected them to play that way, but with the fixtures as they were, there was not much time to plan for how to attack that of defence.
“We struggled to beat them after creating a couple of good chances early on. In the second half, we wanted to introduce a little more energy at a moment that the game was turning, but it was not good enough.”
Cifuentes also bemoaned his side’s defending for both of Boro’s goals, with Latte Lath scoring the first after Matt Clarke recycled a cross back into the box and Forss heading home the second after he was left unmarked at the back post.
“The first goal comes from a sloppy goal conceded, and we don’t defend well in the second phase,” he said. “The second goal comes as we’re trying to attack, but there was just no clear way of how to beat that back five that stayed very low, with two fast players at the top of the pitch.
“You have to try and keep that balance to not concede while still trying to chase the game. In the end, it was not a great game.”
QPR boss on Carrick call that 'made the difference' in Boro's win at Loftus Road
QPR boss Marti Cifuentes felt the switch to a five-man defence was the key to Middlesbrough’s 2-0 victory at Loftus Road.
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