Tactics today

Expat Smoggie

Expat Smoggie

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To be fair NW did a fairly decent job today with team setup and tactics. He switched players constantly throughout the game and made the subs at the right time. Ok we got lucky with the penna non-decisions but overall this was a shot in the arm for the Barnsley game. I’m still confused with the roles and positioning of both Payero and Sporar — maybe Sporar comes good soon as he’s been a bit unlucky in the past few games.
 
Expat Smoggie said:
To be fair NW did a fairly decent job today with team setup and tactics. He switched players constantly throughout the game and made the subs at the right time. Ok we got lucky with the penna non-decisions but overall this was a shot in the arm for the Barnsley game. I’m still confused with the roles and positioning of both Payero and Sporar — maybe Sporar comes good soon as he’s been a bit unlucky in the past few games.
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Lucky with the penna?
 
I'm sure they do. McNair said in his post-match interview that Posh started with an unexpected shape and it took them ten minutes to get to grips with it.
 
Big mitigating factors with so many injuries and more than half the team playing out of their usual positions but honestly, I thought we were as disorganised as I've ever seen us.

To be expected somewhat with everyone playing in weird positions.

But seriously, I think without Bamba we could have lost that. The shape was chaos at times. Crooks was disciplined and held it together, but Bamba's composure was class.

I felt like Sporar & Uche didn't know where they were supposed to be playing, in a 2 or a 3 or Sporar dropping off; Watmore and Payero were all over the place - both wanted to play number 10 and Watmore went left wing a few times, where Hernandez was supposed to be; Tav just did what he wanted; and McNair's positioning was random at times, saw him closing people down on the right wing or in the middle a few times - wtf is he doing there for a left-sided centre back.

Someone in the match thread said it was like watching basketball, it was a bit.
 
I thought we were poor yesterday, it was lucky we were playing one of the worst teams in the league.

We were all over the place at the back, which you can possibly excuse with the injuries, but we also over-hit so many simple passes and every set piece or throw-in was wasted.

I genuinely think they'd have been booed off at half time if Hernandez didn't have a shot cleared off the line in the last second.

Great second goal, Bamba was excellent again, but I don't think it should mask the overall performance of the team.
 
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TeaCider said:
I thought we were poor yesterday, it was lucky we were playing one of the worst teams in the league.

We were all over the place at the back, which you can possibly excuse with the injuries, but we also over-hit so many simple passes and every set piece or throw-in was wasted.

I genuinely think they'd have been booed off at half time if Hernandez didn't have a shot cleared off the line in the last second.

Great second goal, Bamba was excellent again, but I don't think it should mask the overall performance of the team.
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I don’t disagree but you’re still being a bit harsh
With so many changes at the back because of injuries it’s understandable that we would look disjointed. We got the win because of the manager yesterday and not in spite of him
 
Ex Footy Legs said:
I don’t disagree but you’re still being a bit harsh
With so many changes at the back because of injuries it’s understandable that we would look disjointed. We got the win because of the manager yesterday and not in spite of him
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Are you seriously saying we won because of Warnock? Injuries as an excuse we were disjointed doesnt cut it. 2/3 of the back three played in their regular positions and Howson's played there before loads of times. We also played a newly promoted team who hadnt even got a point away from home and should of had a penalty. Our penalty was a "seen them given" type but not stone wall. Without help from the ref it was heading for a draw at best and although im pleased for Coburn and Payero, the score line flatters us and Warnock as Peterborough were better team throughout the first half and we would of been ripped to pieces by a better team. Warnock did nothing to win that game and soonee hes gone the better
 
Ex Footy Legs said:
I don’t disagree but you’re still being a bit harsh
With so many changes at the back because of injuries it’s understandable that we would look disjointed. We got the win because of the manager yesterday and not in spite of him
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Yeah I’d say the opposite, we got the win because our players are individually far better than theirs. The manager for me didn’t help one bit.
 
He made substitutions that changed the game in our favour, TBF. Jones is a breath of fresh air and Coburn is a genuinely exciting talent. But the general performance over 90mins was abysmal. We were outplayed by Peterborough and they should've had a penalty at 0-0. I don't think Warnock deserves much credit at all, aside from the subs and even then you could make a case to say Jones should actually be starting games instead of sitting on the bench.

But we won and we can look ahead to hopefully another 4 or 6 points from the next two games and get some confidence built up.
 
Expat Smoggie said:
yep-- probably both the Posh and our decision could have gone in reverse.
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It was a penalty. They had done the exact same thing from the corner previous, pulling shirts, the ref gave their defenders a chance, they then went and stupidly did the same thing next corner. Penalty.
If anything we were fortunate that they are a League One team defensively who can play nice football up top.
 
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