| Blackburn have only won 1 away all season. on 17:26 - Oct 29 by SullutaCreturned |
I remember Gillingham coming here and they hadn't won away in 2 billion years, they beat us 1-0 in the most boring game I have ever seen at the Liberty.
I have gone 0-1. |
We played Gillingham in the 2024–25 EFL Cup first round it was a 'given" at 2-0 up against a team who had been reduced to 10 men, low and behold we we continued to attack with no concern for defending and they pulled one back in the 87min and then should have scored again as we continued to throw caution to the wind , we did score right at end to make a scary night look like a comfortable win.
Leeds came here and secured a dramatic 3-4 away victory against Swansea City in the EFL Championship on November 24, 2024, we led twice in the first half goiing in at half time 2-1 up managed to go 2-3 behind grabbed the 90 min equaliser but lost 4-3 against a team who got promoted that season.
My point is that at times in games you need to secure your position in a game and not go all 'Gun ho! "
The fact that the likes of Burgress Cabango and now Welsh are being single out for "own goals" or "bad displays " is because at times we over commit players forward without safe guards or adequate cover in place to counter our mistakes , these are mistakes that any team makes against well organised teams and punished more so against so callled better teams, Coventry and Ipswich last season, are they games that we should have lost, you can take instances of games where at times we haven't played percentage football, 0-0 against Millwall at home a couple of years back conceding a late goal because we went looking for a goal to win the game, we were on top and looked as if we could score but we gave the game away by unnecessarily by over committing and not show enough caution to guard against mistakes.
Did we do the same against QPR, we could have got back into the game, we almost could have scored in the first fifteen instead but we ended up 3-0 down, did we go all " Gun ho!"
Many have complained about different tactics or the lack in depth of a squad but Martin's and William's tactics threw games away how often did teams score goals against us within minutes of us scoring a goal. Cooper teams remained defensively resolute in games although in the play off final we tried to attack from the off and got punished. Then Fulton lost his head , did that happened again last Saturday the team lost it head, trying too hard to attack getting caught too high up the pitch as a whole and suffering because of mistakes.
Matos has to now sit down and make sure the team does not make the same mistake as other managers , Sheehan comes to mind initially doing good jobs twice then lost his way.
We are in the promotion positions because of his management and a bit of luck in the unpredictable volatile Championship, long may it continued.
Earlier in the season did we give more possession away playing more balls forward quicker, I think so but did we put more pressure on teams doing so? [Post edited 30 Oct 8:42]
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