[Albion] Game Management

[albionalex]

Two poor pieces of game management today.

The first, from the players, to concede just before the half.

The second, from Potter, not making the final sub after we scored the equalizer.

Otherwise great performance.

 

[El Turi]

We do seem to lose our heads when we score as the same thing happened after we equalised against Chelsea.

 

[Silverhatch]

Absolutely - we are clearly a good side but we are not switched on/clinical/cynical enough.

 

[Scappa]

Considering the space we were given out wide, and the number of balls crossed straight onto the heads of their centre backs, I wonder whether we ought to have brought on either Veltman or Burn and moved one of the big lads up front

 

[albionalex]

Absolutely - we are clearly a good side but we are not switched on/clinical/cynical enough.

I remember a game last year when Spurs scored a last minute goal and, rather than celebrating, Mourinho went racing down the touchline to grab a sub to throw on to kill the clock. That might have been the difference today between 1 point and 0.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Two poor pieces of game management today.

The first, from the players, to concede just before the half.

The second, from Potter, not making the final sub after we scored the equalizer.

Otherwise great performance.

That second point is a really good one. Hadn’t thought of it. Wish Potter had as he could have killed the game. Hopefully we learn from it. Could get very wearing watching us outclass teams and still not get any points.

 

[HP Seagull]

That second point is a really good one. Hadn’t thought of it. Wish Potter had as he could have killed the game. Hopefully we learn from it. Could get very wearing watching us outclass teams and still not get any points.

Even more so after the corner was conceded. Why leave Maupay marking Maguire when we’ve got Dan Burn sitting on the bench?

 

[portlock seagull]

Absolutely - we are clearly a good side but we are not switched on/clinical/cynical enough.

Since 1901...

 

[Icy Gull]

We are a work in progress, it WILL be addressed

I imagine Potter expected the final whistle, but yes he should have made the substitution when the corner was given. Maybe you need to give notice?

 

[jimhigham]

I think you mean this.

 

[dingodan]

It's fair enough to say we could have used the sub to wind down the clock, but would it have made a difference before the kick off? I doubt it. The ref was always going to allow that passage of play which followed. Only other time he could have done that would have been when they got the corner, and you don't make subs just before defending a corner. Had we conceded and he did make a sub just before the corner he would have been slated for that decision anyway.

However, we do look too soft just after scoring. They say that's when you are most vulnerable and we are proving it. Now we need to figure out a way of fixing that. With all of that said, we are so f*cking good right now, I think it's a small criticism, and although significant, it doesn't compare to the massive credit we deserve for the way we are playing, and unlike last season we are doing it for 90 minutes instead of 30 at the start or 30 at the end.