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Ok, not seen this analysed anywhere.  Looked at the footage and there are four Derby players up around the penalty box (one on left and three on the right - all unmarked) plus Hughes with the ball.  Five players involved. Against four defenders - and no-one else.  Eventually Wes and Tettey turn up to try and help, but it''s too little too late.  Talk about stretched.  Why were the back four so deep in the first place and where were our covering midfielders?  The radio commentary said we were good up to the five minute spell when they scored, when we started to look fragile, so what happened during that five minutes? Concentration? Fear? Fitness? 

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[quote user="lake district canary"]Ok, not seen this analysed anywhere.  Looked at the footage and there are four Derby players up around the penalty box (one on left and three on the right - all unmarked) plus Hughes with the ball.  Five players involved. Against four defenders - and no-one else.  Eventually Wes and Tettey turn up to try and help, but it''s too little too late.  Talk about stretched.  Why were the back four so deep in the first place and where were our covering midfielders?  The radio commentary said we were good up to the five minute spell when they scored, when we started to look fragile, so what happened during that five minutes? Concentration? Fear? Fitness? 

[/quote]Probably more along the lines of ''Couldn''t give a f*ckness'' as much as I''ve witnessed.

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If good is registering one shot one target, which is all we had managed by the 5 minute spell, then our standards have truly fallen through the floor.

All bookies had us as either the 2nd or 3rd favourites to win the league this year. To make a comparison with the Premier League, that makes us like the Championship equivalent of Chelsea.

Can you imagine Chelsea going 270 minutes without scoring a goal from open play, as we managed a few weeks ago. Can you imagine Chelsea losing 5 league games on the bounce. Can you imagine Chelsea not getting a shot on target for almost an hour against a mid-table Premier League side?

Can you imagine all that happening to Chelsea and having a manager patted on the head by the board?

It''s beyond a joke.

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[quote user="lake district canary"]Ok, not seen this analysed anywhere.  Looked at the footage and there are four Derby players up around the penalty box (one on left and three on the right - all unmarked) plus Hughes with the ball.  Five players involved. Against four defenders - and no-one else.  Eventually Wes and Tettey turn up to try and help, but it''s too little too late.  Talk about stretched.  Why were the back four so deep in the first place and where were our covering midfielders?  The radio commentary said we were good up to the five minute spell when they scored, when we started to look fragile, so what happened during that five minutes? Concentration? Fear? Fitness?  [/quote]
It''s hard to pin down exact factors but yes there were large parts where I thought we''d gone for a stroll in the park, midfield really let down the defence for the goal, who had repeatably done their job well. Especially disappointed in Tettey, who seems to be one of a few players who possibly just don''t want to be here anymore.

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[quote user="canarydan23"]If good is registering one shot one target, which is all we had managed by the 5 minute spell, then our standards have truly fallen through the floor.

All bookies had us as either the 2nd or 3rd favourites to win the league this year. To make a comparison with the Premier League, that makes us like the Championship equivalent of Chelsea.

Can you imagine Chelsea going 270 minutes without scoring a goal from open play, as we managed a few weeks ago. Can you imagine Chelsea losing 5 league games on the bounce. Can you imagine Chelsea not getting a shot on target for almost an hour against a mid-table Premier League side?

Can you imagine all that happening to Chelsea and having a manager patted on the head by the board?

It''s beyond a joke.[/quote][Y]

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[quote user="can u sit down please"]Tettey and Mulumbu should be in and around that area.

You are taught from a young age to win your second balls. Schoolboy[/quote]Or at least one of them, if we are pushing forward.

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Listening to the Canaryworld commentary, we had enough possession to be the dictators of the game.

But Chris Goreham and Mark Robins repeatedly told us that we lacked any punch and really did not look like scoring.

If you have the lion''s share of the ball, our defence should be defending on the halfway line and marking tight.

But this stupid reliance on our full backs being our main attacking threat out wide means when the inevitable bad pass goes to no-one because there is no-one in the box, then our two CB''s (perm two from four and none can admit to possessing pace or recovery , sit deep not particularly marking anyone.

Thus we are stretched the length of the pitch with no shape and no support when we have the ball.

AN must change his tactics or he will be out of work. I think it is time anyway but if he just admitted he has been wrong so far and change then he could turn it around.

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For the goal, I think we had won back possession and were trying to play it out but lost it back to them around half-way, so our midfielders were caught out of position leaving our back 4 exposed.  TBF to them they looked to have dealt with it but for a super striker by BJ.  And a little disappointing that Ruddy was beaten by a straight shot from that distance.

 

As has been pointed out, one of Tettey and Mulumbu should have stayed a bit deeper.

 

Up front it''s fair to say we were lacking in conviction throughout - I never felt we looked likely to score even when we had good openings.

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its stinks of ill discipline and lack of commitment working back.

If we has the ball on the half way line then its reasonable to expect one of the two defensive midfielders to sit deep and both provide an out ball for him if pressure and more crucially provide a shield for back 4 should we lose possession.

That we s was then one of teh first back on the scene just heaps more scorn on Mulumbu & Tettey.

I thought Bassong defended the situation reasonably well, he and bennett were unlucky for it to fall to the following up player (unfortunately in white) who took a shot that benefited from a deflection to help make it bradleys only effort on target - thats how luck goes when on a bad run.

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Fair enough on the deflection, I didn''t spot it.

 

As you say bad luck that the tackle from RB pushes the ball out to an attacker.  But there''s also the question that the Derby players were in that position more quickly than any of our defensive midfielders.  If we''d had more players rushing back, there would''ve been a much better chance of us not being unlucky.

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Fair enough on the deflection, I didn''t spot it.

 

As you say bad luck that the tackle from RB pushes the ball out to an attacker.  But there''s also the question that the Derby players were in that position more quickly than any of our defensive midfielders.  If we''d had more players rushing back, there would''ve been a much better chance of us not being unlucky.

[/quote]If we had been lucky enough to get the two penalty shouts we may have won the game....

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[quote user="Ginja"][quote user="lake district canary"]Ok, not seen this analysed anywhere.  Looked at the footage and there are four Derby players up around the penalty box (one on left and three on the right - all unmarked) plus Hughes with the ball.  Five players involved. Against four defenders - and no-one else.  Eventually Wes and Tettey turn up to try and help, but it''s too little too late.  Talk about stretched.  Why were the back four so deep in the first place and where were our covering midfielders?  The radio commentary said we were good up to the five minute spell when they scored, when we started to look fragile, so what happened during that five minutes? Concentration? Fear? Fitness?  [/quote]
It''s hard to pin down exact factors but yes there were large parts where I thought we''d gone for a stroll in the park, midfield really let down the defence for the goal, who had repeatably done their job well. Especially disappointed in Tettey, who seems to be one of a few players who possibly just don''t want to be here anymore.
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