Scott Dann is taller than Dzeko.

Sorry to say, but I think he knows he was at fault for the first goal. If his weak kick out which lead to the first goal had been executed better it wouldn't have resulted in the pass and header.

Apart from that he didn't put a foot wrong!!!!

In my humble opinion as a Goal Keeping coach to Juniors:
a) Not at fault in my opinion. He was standing in the correct place to react to either a shot or cross. Scorer jumped up between two defenders (who could have intercepted ball or blocked his path to the ball)from an awesome pinpoint cross.
b) Striker headed the ball down and hard (like they're taught to) GK had no chance.

How do we stop these type of goals?
a) Mark the player attempting to pass the ball tighter (close his space to reduce his options).
b) The defenders on the striker need to get up in the air at the right time to deflect the ball or at least prevent the ball from reaching their striker.

It was a superb cross and quality header - we've perhaps got to accept sometimes the quality that we are up against.

Edited by coachmatt (28 Apr 2014 11.03pm)

That head by Dzeco was hard to stop.

I've played in goal and flashing headers like that close to your feet are a bugger to keep out as you don't know whether to go with your hands or feet.

He had no chance with YaYa's goal either.

He might have been 10 years ago, but no longer, he's quite a bit shorter.

nope, Jedi was his usual bulldozer self yesterday, just that Toure was bigger and more driven. An excellent perormance from Toure showing just how big the gulf between their team and ours is/was.

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