| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. 21:41 - Feb 21 with 4035 views | Dr_Parnassus |
What are they going to be tonight?
- I sense a snide jibe at the supporters while masking it with “they have every right” or something.
- The ref is going to get some blame for giving out yellow cards.
- The players are going to get blamed despite being made to play his awful way. We didn’t miss a load of great chances and Stoke deservedly beat us.
0.94 xG vs 2.80 xG (quite incredible).
That’s my guess as to the three pronged blame game at the end of it. Couldn’t possibly be him you see. Despite hauling off his star signing after 30 mins and making the same suicidal mistakes he made in game 1. |  |
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| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 08:47 - Feb 22 with 663 views | vetchonian |
| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 08:02 - Feb 22 by jack247 |
The short goal kick came back because they were pressing us with four or five players at times.
In theory, it should work a treat against teams who do that. As always, our problem is when we do manage to play around them and take players out of the game, we are way too slow getting forward. We either run out of options and go back, or we’re so slow, opponents get back into position. Either way it negates any advantage we’ve created by passing it around dangerous areas. |
Except last night the short free kick led to us being put under pressure... |  |
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| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 09:01 - Feb 22 with 635 views | jojaca |
| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 08:02 - Feb 22 by jack247 |
The short goal kick came back because they were pressing us with four or five players at times.
In theory, it should work a treat against teams who do that. As always, our problem is when we do manage to play around them and take players out of the game, we are way too slow getting forward. We either run out of options and go back, or we’re so slow, opponents get back into position. Either way it negates any advantage we’ve created by passing it around dangerous areas. |
Playing out from the back is the most overrated football tactic in the game, you used to have to work hard before to score goals, now teams just gift you opportunities . How many goals would have been avoided, If we played it safe. It's a buzz word in my house when watching games on TV "playing out from the back". I would love to see the statistic with goals scored vs goals conceded from playing out from the back across the big leagues and competitions. |  |
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| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 09:10 - Feb 22 with 606 views | Boundy |
| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 08:02 - Feb 22 by jack247 |
The short goal kick came back because they were pressing us with four or five players at times.
In theory, it should work a treat against teams who do that. As always, our problem is when we do manage to play around them and take players out of the game, we are way too slow getting forward. We either run out of options and go back, or we’re so slow, opponents get back into position. Either way it negates any advantage we’ve created by passing it around dangerous areas. |
Couldn't have put it any better , the times we drew them in but then kept playing short side way backward passes instead of looking for the ball out when the space was there was criminal at times , we don't have players in the team who have the vision to dictate the tempo nor create Grimes has possibly his worst game for us caught on the ball or just looking for the safe ball , disappointment doesn't begin to describe n my feelings about last night's performance and although a advocate of giving Martin time I'm now firmly in the camp that he has to go , for us to maintain our league status and his sanity | |
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| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 09:13 - Feb 22 with 599 views | OptimisticJack |
| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 21:48 - Feb 21 by union_jack |
That subbing of Darling seemed like the actions of a man who feels the end is nigh. He was making a decision to show how tough he can be and not afraid to make bold decisions.
Darling wasn’t playing well but taking him off so early is likely to affect his confidence. You rarely see it happening. |
It was a tactical decision and the correct thing to do at the time. | |
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| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 09:13 - Feb 22 with 599 views | jack247 |
| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 08:10 - Feb 22 by Dr_Winston |
There are short goal kicks, and there are short goal kicks like we play.
Taking a short goal kick is fine when the keeper spots an opening and wants to to try and exploit that. Taking a short goal kick when three or four opposition players are just outside our box, chops slobbering in anticipation of the panic to come perhaps less so. |
I don’t think anybody is happy with it. It patently doesn’t work. Not just the one two around the striker, the whole passing it intricately around a congested penalty area.
I can see how it could work, but we’d have to do it with more pace and precision than we’re capable of. If we had a back 5 capable of doing that effectively, they’d all be poached. | | | |
| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 09:19 - Feb 22 with 571 views | union_jack |
| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 09:13 - Feb 22 by OptimisticJack |
It was a tactical decision and the correct thing to do at the time. |
Making a change like that at that time shows he got his tactics wrong from the start. How often do you see that in games?
Martin is trying to advance his managerial career and using Swansea as his practice ground. He continues with the same style hoping to be picked up by a bigger club because they see the style he promotes and have the players to do it. Why else hasn’t he changed this? We are his experiment and he’s a mad professor! |  |
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| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 09:27 - Feb 22 with 558 views | jack247 |
| Let’s preemptively put the excuses to bed before they are made. on 08:47 - Feb 22 by vetchonian |
Except last night the short free kick led to us being put under pressure... |
Well yes, it invariably does.
There’s always going to be an element of risk in a tactic like that, no matter if you’ve got Wood and Darling or Xavi and Iniesta doing it. If you can create enough numerical advantages further up the pitch from doing it, then it’s worth taking.
We can’t and just shouldn’t do it. | | | |
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