tronnogull
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- May 17, 2010
- 602
You must be correct because that is what they did. But we are talking goal kicks here, and I seem to recall that NF did drop back for goal kicks. I could see hoofing it down the pitch if there are less than 5 minutes left but there were 25 minutes including the stoppage time. Oh well, this is just a matter of opinion which two reasonable people could disagree over.As I said in my post above - Notts were playing a very high press at that point and we were in a low block absorbing hit after hit - they were right on top of us in and around the 18 yard box - there was no ‘back’ to speak of - and there was no space between the lines - therefore no time to play nice passing (and risky anyway) football from the back - and - our players were getting knackered, especially deep into injury time - you don’t risk counterattacks in that situation, you defend defend defend (IMO!) - we needed time to catch a breather which booting it long gave us - it was the right tactic I believe for the 15-20 minutes it was an issue,