seagullwedgee
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- Aug 9, 2005
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Gus is the man, and this is not a crtiticism, just my view of why it went so wrong at the Dons.
Gus said before that the Dons liked to play proper footie, and play on a good surface. Why did we go in 433? Other than the first 90 seconds when he had a half chance we were completely over-run in midfield. It didn't hlp that Dicker was having such a shocker, but they just came raining through us down the middle and down both flanks, whilst our 3 centre forwards stood up field waiting for the others to mop up. And when we were trying to play out from the back we could never find a spare man in midfield because they pushed high up and outnumbered us, so no outlets.
I kept thinking he'll change it soon and go 442 to even it up, and maybe give us some width (yes I know we missed Noone and Kish) but every tactical change was more and more bizarre, to the point where we had taken off both our full backs, and were still playing with three centre forwards against 10 men - and still we had less and less width as the game went on.
The only tactical change that went on at the Dons (if you can call it that) is that we resorted more and more to high balls lumped in from 45 degree angles (rarely got to the byline).
So formation wrong, tactics wrong, but the players need to look in the mirror.........
Gus said before that the Dons liked to play proper footie, and play on a good surface. Why did we go in 433? Other than the first 90 seconds when he had a half chance we were completely over-run in midfield. It didn't hlp that Dicker was having such a shocker, but they just came raining through us down the middle and down both flanks, whilst our 3 centre forwards stood up field waiting for the others to mop up. And when we were trying to play out from the back we could never find a spare man in midfield because they pushed high up and outnumbered us, so no outlets.
I kept thinking he'll change it soon and go 442 to even it up, and maybe give us some width (yes I know we missed Noone and Kish) but every tactical change was more and more bizarre, to the point where we had taken off both our full backs, and were still playing with three centre forwards against 10 men - and still we had less and less width as the game went on.
The only tactical change that went on at the Dons (if you can call it that) is that we resorted more and more to high balls lumped in from 45 degree angles (rarely got to the byline).
So formation wrong, tactics wrong, but the players need to look in the mirror.........
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