[Albion] Team selection today - Humble Pie

[GT49er]

PM me and I'll give you GP's number. I'm sure he will be most appreciative.

It's OK, I've already emailed Paul Barber!

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Lots of humble pie here ... it's almost like he sees the players week in week out in training and has some experience of managing a Premier League football team compared to someone who could barely manage to turn up sober for a Sunday league match

 

[oldboyroy]

To be honest I thought we would get hammered at city when I saw the line up but what do I know!! I was surprised at how well we managed to play despite a narrow defeat

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

I had a big slice and came back for seconds. I clearly know nothing about football [emoji23]

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[darkwolf666]

Having read this thread in its entirety, all I can say is that you can never please some people...

 

[Machiavelli]

We got the result, but it’s not to say we were stronger for not starting biss.
I thought we looked instantly more solid when he came on.
If he was tired or injured then fine, but imho there can never be tactical justification for not playing him.
He’s our best player and, if fit, should start every game

Well, at least you've qualified it. Do we know whether he was fully match fit?

 

[Machiavelli]

To be fair I was thinking the worse when I saw our starting 11 today - but fair play to Potter - He got it spot on today - outwitting the best manager the world has ever seen !

Anybody else snacking on the humble pie ?

Top man for starting this thread. I said pre-match that Potter better get a result with that line-up. Somebody else said that he's got some cojones for doing it. I think that was better put.

 

[Frankworthington]

Disagree. Yes, Leeds were poor, but I thought we were very solid against them. I certainly don't think we "scraped" it, or that it was a "win ugly" performance. The defence were excellent and supremely well organised. Sanchez was so well protected and barely had a save to make against the team who are second in the PL in terms of the number of shots on goal they've had this season. You think Leeds looked crap: do you not think we had something to do with that? This is a team who have outplayed some of the top sides and won plaudits from every tedious pundit in the business for their "attacking style". We restricted them to a few half arsed efforts, and not by parking the bus either.

I was somewhat surprised by the line-up before the game, but there was a very clear change to the usual tactical plan on view, which can only have been instigated by Potter:
-goal kicks were going medium to long, and Burn was notably being pushed forward to win those balls
-Mac Allister was playing an advanced role in the very large hole between Leeds' midfield and their defence, and running at them (we have been so bad at running at teams recently)
-we binned off the annoyingly unsuccessful short corner routine in favour of balls into the six yard box against a team with an even worse record than us at defending set pieces
-Gross was both solid and creative in the central midfield role that I'm sure most of us would have picked Bissouma for

Somehow, Potter the amateur has completely out-thought the Greatest Manager The World Has Ever Seen.

This

Nailed it

 

[dazzer6666]

...even a lot of Leeds fans on Twitter are saying they were tactically outwitted.

 

[Perkino]

The tactic of closing Leeds down quickly and crowding them in the centre of the pitch worked very well in the first half. They couldn't match our ability to play one touch accurate passes when under pressure so we swamped them. I believe we still would've achieved this with any of Bissouma, Propper or Alzate in the centre of midfield. I'm a big fan of White and
Webster as ball playing centrebacks and would prefer to see them either side of Dunk if we are to play 3 CB's, Burn isn't as good with the ball at his feet. In all honesty I saw the starting line up and shrugged the only surprise being no Bissouma

 

[BrianWade4]

Big slice for me please

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I was concerned at 2pm I’m not going to lie.

Out of interest what it’s the view on the logic of starting Gross rather than Bissouma?

I’ve see the quarter back role and set pieces mentioned but Shirley that’s why MacAllister starts?


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[vagabond]

I was concerned at 2pm I’m not going to lie.

Out of interest what it’s the view on the logic of starting Gross rather than Bissouma?

I’ve see the quarter back role and set pieces mentioned but Shirley that’s why MacAllister starts?


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I don’t think anyone’s fully worked it out other than it clearly was a tactic GP thought carefully about and it worked [emoji1]

It was me who likened Gross’ role yesterday to a quarterback. I could be wrong, but that’s how I saw it. Because it played to his strengths. whilst he’s slow he’s so good at pinging the ball about from the middle, allowing White and Mac to overlap him and he could play it short or long on either side. It was super effective as a counter attack strategy and letting Leeds have the ball.

 

[One Love]

I don’t think anyone’s fully worked it out other than it clearly was a tactic GP thought carefully about and it worked [emoji1]

It was me who likened Gross’ role yesterday to a quarterback. I could be wrong, but that’s how I saw it. Because it played to his strengths. whilst he’s slow he’s so good at pinging the ball about from the middle, allowing White and Mac to overlap him and he could play it short or long on either side. It was super effective as a counter attack strategy and letting Leeds have the ball.

Also the heavy long grass pitch helped him enormously. He struggles on the carpet like fast pitches because of his lack of pace.

So if this was a factor in his selection then that was genius.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

To be fair I was thinking the worse when I saw our starting 11 today - but fair play to Potter - He got it spot on today - outwitting the best manager the world has ever seen !

Anybody else snacking on the humble pie ?

If you follow The Herd, you get Humble Pie. But then you Come Alive and Show them the Way to beat the best in the world..