19-10-2024, 16:13
For me, recent performances have been far too negative given the quality we have in our squad now.
We play with 3 attacking midfielders, yet we never really see any "football". Maja holds the ball up nicely and shows some nice touches, but he's not getting any decent service.
Where is the interchange? The passing and moving? Finding dangerous pockets between the lines where we can thread a ball through?
We tend to have a lot of possession passing side to side in our own half, but where is the excitement up the other end? With the exception of Fellows getting to the byline and putting a cross in, we never really look like creating anything from open play. None of our plethora of attacking midfielders seem to have the ability to play a through ball and even if they did, we're far too pedestrian moving the ball from back to front. Last year we had Kipre who could thread a pass from deep to beat the opposition press, but we don't have that this season, yet insist on playing between the back 4.
It was an excellent goal from Grant, a good long range shot, but we can't rely on spectacular goals. Corberan needs to figure out a way to get us playing some football.
And I really don't understand why we insist on playing backwards passes, often playing ourselves into trouble, when there are easy forward passes on. I can't help thinking that if we just played normal today, attempting to get the second goal, we would've seen the game out. Instead, consciously picking out the "safe" ball, we played ourselves into trouble and gave away the throw in which lead to the equaliser. No disrespect to Oxford, but it didn't feel like it was a game where we needed to avoid committing men forward at the end.
Corberan has done a great job to date, but this season is a different animal. We should, on paper, be one of the better teams. Despite that, it feels like our philosophy is no different from when he inherited Bruce's bottom of the table side. Things need to change...
We play with 3 attacking midfielders, yet we never really see any "football". Maja holds the ball up nicely and shows some nice touches, but he's not getting any decent service.
Where is the interchange? The passing and moving? Finding dangerous pockets between the lines where we can thread a ball through?
We tend to have a lot of possession passing side to side in our own half, but where is the excitement up the other end? With the exception of Fellows getting to the byline and putting a cross in, we never really look like creating anything from open play. None of our plethora of attacking midfielders seem to have the ability to play a through ball and even if they did, we're far too pedestrian moving the ball from back to front. Last year we had Kipre who could thread a pass from deep to beat the opposition press, but we don't have that this season, yet insist on playing between the back 4.
It was an excellent goal from Grant, a good long range shot, but we can't rely on spectacular goals. Corberan needs to figure out a way to get us playing some football.
And I really don't understand why we insist on playing backwards passes, often playing ourselves into trouble, when there are easy forward passes on. I can't help thinking that if we just played normal today, attempting to get the second goal, we would've seen the game out. Instead, consciously picking out the "safe" ball, we played ourselves into trouble and gave away the throw in which lead to the equaliser. No disrespect to Oxford, but it didn't feel like it was a game where we needed to avoid committing men forward at the end.
Corberan has done a great job to date, but this season is a different animal. We should, on paper, be one of the better teams. Despite that, it feels like our philosophy is no different from when he inherited Bruce's bottom of the table side. Things need to change...