Telford-Feb-85
Player Valuation: £5m
Having the ball after you have just scored takes the sting out of the opposition's willingness to respond quickly. Possibly?
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Having the ball after you have just scored takes the sting out of the opposition's willingness to respond quickly. Possibly?
I wouldn't mind that for a 5 minute period, but even Burnley managed to build up a decent head of steam against us after our goal. Chelsea are superb at keeping possession and still threatening the other team, they are the model to follow. Funnily enough, even they broke their own mould against united and sat back the last 5 minutes, and look what happened there too.
I'm not sure it's a factor we can control. A lot of games have that dynamic because of a shifting mindset in both teams. How often do you see teams who are behind by a goal find the impetus to lay siege to their opponent's penalty are in the last ten minutes of a game? I think when you have nothing to lose going in that end of a game, you're more likely to take risks because you have nothing to lose, while the team ahead as everything to lose.
My post on the previous page says what I meant better than the above mate.
Outrageous first prediction.
Ah. I still think what I said kind of applies. The problem is, as you have said, we are never tonking the other team by 3 or 4 goals. If the opposition are never really out of the game, there will always be periods when they'll have the belief to drive at us. Chelsea kill the game well, but they have a ridiculous squad. Every other team, including City, United and Liverpool suffer the same problem as us.
Edit: It's difficult during those periods to counter because we're being pressed in our own half and they have momentum. I'm not really explaining it well. Football happens. We play the football. Then the other team footballs right back at us until we finally close off the football with some defensive footballing.
Shameless flirt you rascal.Outrageous first prediction.