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#96 Brighton v Forest: post #96 nemesiz
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Why did Dougie Freedman play three defensively minded players in the middle? Mancienne, Tesche and Lansbury were atrocious last night, as like last season, failing to create opportunities for the lone striker, Blackstock to shoot. Instead it was a carbon copy of last season, which Chris Hughton, the Brighton manager exploited, as Forest continually passed to Antonio who had to contend with two or three opposition players man-marking him. So all the midfielder could do is cross ineffectively into the middle for Blackstock to header. It was only the introduction of Walker, and later Paterson that Forest appeared to have additional attacking options and the game opened up but it was too little, too late.
Concerning the goal, many forest supporters would criticise Lichaj, but the defender at times was struggling against Brighton who attacked with two or three players on the right wing, but without assistance from Ward, or Tesche (Vaughan) the player could only trackback, and cover the angles especially against the eventual winner scored by LuaLua.
If Dougie Freedman persist with playing this formation, the club will find itself fighting against relegation. There is no excuses, the manager has potentially a squad capable of players that could play free flowing attack minded football, but if he insists on playing one dimensional football the team will struggle to create clear cut chances for forwards to score.
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69 posts
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Location:Bracknell
Posted Today, 05:53 AM
Why did Dougie Freedman play three defensively minded players in the middle? Mancienne, Tesche and Lansbury were atrocious last night, as like last season, failing to create opportunities for the lone striker, Blackstock to shoot. Instead it was a carbon copy of last season, which Chris Hughton, the Brighton manager exploited, as Forest continually passed to Antonio who had to contend with two or three opposition players man-marking him. So all the midfielder could do is cross ineffectively into the middle for Blackstock to header. It was only the introduction of Walker, and later Paterson that Forest appeared to have additional attacking options and the game opened up but it was too little, too late.
Concerning the goal, many forest supporters would criticise Lichaj, but the defender at times was struggling against Brighton who attacked with two or three players on the right wing, but without assistance from Ward, or Tesche (Vaughan) the player could only trackback, and cover the angles especially against the eventual winner scored by LuaLua.
If Dougie Freedman persist with playing this formation, the club will find itself fighting against relegation. There is no excuses, the manager has potentially a squad capable of players that could play free flowing attack minded football, but if he insists on playing one dimensional football the team will struggle to create clear cut chances for forwards to score.
