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 Dangermouse  Hastings 15 Oct 17 11.10am |
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Personally the formation and players used was a masterstroke by Roy. Totally bamboozled Chelsea. Trouble is the cat is now out of the bag and everyone will now be set up ready, well as ready as you can be for a player like Zaha.
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| serial thriller The Promised Land 15 Oct 17 11.16am |
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It's a great ace to have up our sleeve. Still think our strongest formation will be to have a big man up top, but yesterday opens up a second option up top, something which we've been crying out for all season. Roy seriously earned his crust yesterday. Bold tactics, well organised, and terrified one of the giant teams of the league.
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| Dangermouse Hastings 15 Oct 17 11.16am |
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Originally posted by johnno42000
What I found interesting was how, at times, we dealt with a lack of height up front. Jules would launch the ball and we either didn't challenge or got beaten in the air. The great thing was it didn't matter as when they headed it out our midfield placed themselves in a position to get the ball from the header and start an attack. It was a very, very clever tactic. Edited by johnno42000 (15 Oct 2017 10.52am) Yes the midfield picked up 90% of Chelsea's headed clearances as we left them unchallenged most times. Playing with your back to a centre half requires a very specific type of player. They have to have no fear and willingly jump backwards into certain pain coming in the opposite direction, blind. Yesterday proved that Wilf definitely is not comfortable challenging for high balls with his back to goal, so he just ran a little interference to impede the clearance headers.
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taylors lovechild  15 Oct 17 11.27am |
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A big factor yesterday was that Wilf was clearly not match fit. Had he been we would have won by more. Chelsea got lucky
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| Mr. Mainstand west norwood 15 Oct 17 11.54am |
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Originally posted by crvenaeagle
The Spanish Waiter will be all over this game plan for the next week. It worked wonderfully yesterday but Newcastle will be expecting it when next Saturday comes around, so we absolutely must have a Plan B that we work on before then. Yesterday's plan A of Wilf and Townsend up front was forced on us by Benteke's injury. But it's a very viable plan B and at least Roy seems to be working on options - something we've been sorely, sorely lacking recently. COYP!
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| eddiqc Tunbridge wells 15 Oct 17 1.29pm |
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I'd be quite happy to see us use the same team as yesterday, except I'd replace schlupp with RLC, the difference in quality between them is significant imo.. Plus even if he was fit I'd bench beneteke and keep zaha and Townsend up front. I'm not the manager though!
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| Shifty97 Croydon 15 Oct 17 4.45pm |
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I'm a big fan of the formation and I thought when we lined up in the same way in the cup against Huddersfield (with Sako and Lee) it worked really well then too. It worked really well yesterday especially due to the fact that Chelsea can't really cope with wide forwards, we played Wilf and Benteke up top last season at the bridge in a similar formation and Allardyce revealed in an interview that he told them to mainly start off wide and Chelsea couldn't really cope with it then either. I think it could work in the future however, I would prefer to have Wilf on the wing so we can get him on the ball more
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| eagle@ tn34 hastings 15 Oct 17 5.04pm |
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Originally posted by johnno42000
What I found interesting was how, at times, we dealt with a lack of height up front. Jules would launch the ball and we either didn't challenge or got beaten in the air. The great thing was it didn't matter as when they headed it out our midfield placed themselves in a position to get the ball from the header and start an attack. It was a very, very clever tactic. Edited by johnno42000 (15 Oct 2017 10.52am) I noticed this too but was it a tactic or just that we were quicker on the second ball. COYP
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johnno42000  15 Oct 17 5.31pm |
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Originally posted by eagle@ tn34
I noticed this too but was it a tactic or just that we were quicker on the second ball. COYP I'm giving it as a Roy master plan
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| Brentmiester_General Front line in the battle against t... 16 Oct 17 8.34am |
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Originally posted by Dangermouse
Personally the formation and players used was a masterstroke by Roy. Totally bamboozled Chelsea. Trouble is the cat is now out of the bag and everyone will now be set up ready, well as ready as you can be for a player like Zaha. Thing is, the team have now proved that they can play in a fluid fashion. Meaning that they can now be moved around into a few different formations and hopefully produce the goods. This could make it very hard for defences to be set up in a way that will shut us out of the game. Edited by Brentmiester_General (16 Oct 2017 8.36am)
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| hastingseagle67 16 Oct 17 2.08pm |
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Big Sam actually came up with this tactic last season at the Bridge. Although it was Wilf and Benteke up top, he still played them out wide which confused the hell out of the back three of Chelsea.
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