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Said this before......

But if we put men on the post's when defending corners, we would have won yesterday.

posted on 11/8/19

Good point! Why don’t our team do this?

posted on 11/8/19

I think we will have many problems at set pieces.

posted on 11/8/19

Its a very good point indeed. Just had another look and we are set up for the corner with 8 leeds players in the box (including Kiko) and 6 Forest players. Have a look and i think its Pablo who is stood 5 metres from the corner taker jumping in the air trying to block the corner - wonder what the tactic here is? There is a Leeds player on the edge of the box which is normal but also another leeds player out near the touchline presumably stopping a short corner.

We are marking them man for man with Bamford covering the near post. Bamford does not move towards the ball. Whether the curve away from goal deceives him or its coming too fast who knows but he is there to defend near post corners.

Forshaw isnt tight enough to Ameobi who gets a yard on him. Its a mismatch in height mind too and like ive already said it would have been nice to be able to bring on a taller player to counter the fact Forest brought two on. As soon as the near post isnt dealt with we are in trouble.

So effectively we had 3 spare players meaning we would have had to have nobody on the edge of the box if we had two guarding the posts.

posted on 11/8/19

... Danny mills shares the view. So do I. I’d have one covering the blind side for a lot of free kicks as well (despite playing onside)

comment by tslufc (U12903)

posted on 12/8/19

The lack of a tall commanding CB (eg Jansson) is an obvious weakness which anybody can see. As Kebab says not dealing with the near post ball means we are in trouble straight away. Cooper was also fouling Dawson at another corner, Dawson shrugged him off and still managed to get a header in, luckily for us off target.
Having all the possession and dominating games as we do matters very little if we are going to be undone so easily

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