13-11-2023, 10:14 AM
Been thinking about this and what people are saying about the quality of set pieces which I agree with. To be honest I am much more annoyed about yesterday’s result than I was about Luton.
Luton was just one of those freak results that happens in football, we got a bit complacent and backed off, changed what we were doing and it bit us on the arse. It doesn’t happen often.
Yesterday we put the effort in the whole 90mins, there was clearly a game plan, we got ourselves in front when we knew it was a proper battle in an even contest. Yet what we did was give the ball away, allowed far too many set pieces. Surely that should have been part of the plan to not let them have a dead ball in our half or give away corners if possible but we just seemed to let it happen. Agree with Cooper that some of those set pieces we didn’t defend well either, don’t know if it was lack of desire as he said but we weren’t getting to the ball first. Im hardly an expert but it was pretty obvious what West Hams threat was and how they would score and in my opinion we didn’t do nearly enough to stop it happening.
As for our own set pieces, think MGW getting a hard time but we know JWP is simply the best in the league at a dead ball so its a tough comparison. Yes I think someone else should take at least a few and mix it up a bit though, would give MGW a chance to get in the box and do something special himself.
Luton was just one of those freak results that happens in football, we got a bit complacent and backed off, changed what we were doing and it bit us on the arse. It doesn’t happen often.
Yesterday we put the effort in the whole 90mins, there was clearly a game plan, we got ourselves in front when we knew it was a proper battle in an even contest. Yet what we did was give the ball away, allowed far too many set pieces. Surely that should have been part of the plan to not let them have a dead ball in our half or give away corners if possible but we just seemed to let it happen. Agree with Cooper that some of those set pieces we didn’t defend well either, don’t know if it was lack of desire as he said but we weren’t getting to the ball first. Im hardly an expert but it was pretty obvious what West Hams threat was and how they would score and in my opinion we didn’t do nearly enough to stop it happening.
As for our own set pieces, think MGW getting a hard time but we know JWP is simply the best in the league at a dead ball so its a tough comparison. Yes I think someone else should take at least a few and mix it up a bit though, would give MGW a chance to get in the box and do something special himself.