They targeted Naughton put a big and fast forward on him, in one on one situations he struggled with height and pace for all his experience hence the first booking.
They did the same in the second leg of the play off semi final, can't remember if we change around in the second half of that game but we did play better or maybe they dropped off.
Could we change it in the second half and not bring Bennett on if he was worried about him, yes bring Manning on for Naughton and drop Bidewell into the back three, Manning seem to link well with Hourihane.
A lot of games we dominated the back three have pressed high up the park winning the aerial battle and not given the forward time on the ball,the only reason I can see not to do that would be worrying about the pace of the forwards to capitalise on through or over the top balls, is Cooper worried that against the better teams we will be unable to stop them?
Derby (being low in the league) against us were the better team on the day, did Cooper get the tactics wrong, more often than not this season he has got it right and if not changed it, some have worked some not.
Work in progress, new players in will give him options but hopefully not upset the balance of the team.
We all want to see nice flowing football but we also want the wins, hopefully for rest of the season we can have both. |
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