game management

[AJC5]

We were so good in the City league game with 10 men at keeping the ball and possession in the dying minutes, they barely touched the ball let alone got a goal chance - perhaps knowing we were a man light made the players more careful?

The bloody frustrating thing is we clearly can do it, we just don't as often as we should!

City can't bombard the box like Chelsea can. They tried to play through us on the floor which we can deal with. We struggle when teams get the ball in the box because we are poor at heading and have a coward for a keeper

 

[Joey66]

Game management, give me a break!! How do you control player decisions? If Jags didn't mess up, we'd of been laughing,that goal gave them a lift, we were just very unlucky today, offside goal in the 98 minute,how often does that happen??

In our history horrible things happen to us - Clive Thomas! - Clattenburg - Pancake head etc!

 

[Eggs]

....I might have this wrong but there was an angle of the Costa goal yesterday which I believe showed Oviedo some 20 yards ahead of Lennon and very close to the Chelsea corner flag when Fabrigas hit a 50 yard pass over the top. We were 2-0 up. This is bad game management, Stones and Jagielka were exposed to a single long ball, Oviedo was possibly the furthest player we had forward.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Baines saying that despite the ref error, we need to be better at managing the game
https://audioboom.com/boos/4070051-baines-the-goal-was-offside-but-we-have-to-manage-games-better

 

[Little Ralphy]

....I might have this wrong but there was an angle of the Costa goal yesterday which I believe showed Oviedo some 20 yards ahead of Lennon and very close to the Chelsea corner flag when Fabrigas hit a 50 yard pass over the top. We were 2-0 up. This is bad game management, Stones and Jagielka were exposed to a single long ball, Oviedo was possibly the furthest player we had forward.

I said this earlier in the thread. At 2-0 up we don't need our full backs bombing on. They should be sitting in the full back position covering their defensive duties. When Fabregas hits that long ball it's no longer Costa vs Jags, it's Costa vs Jags and another defender and it doesn't happen.

 

[Eggs]

I said this earlier in the thread. At 2-0 up we don't need our full backs bombing on. They should be sitting in the full back position covering their defensive duties. When Fabregas hits that long ball it's no longer Costa vs Jags, it's Costa vs Jags and another defender and it doesn't happen.

....absolutely, just as you'd do on the local park on a Sunday morning.

 

[terraloon]

It's about the ability to manage shape, keep hold of the ball and when you get your noses in front at two nil setting up to protect the back four and not expose the keeper.The long ball over the top should have been dealt with by the central defender in truth it's the lack of pace that created the issue in that Howard was caught in two minds. As a aside watch Stones how he in effect just stops running his awareness is sadly lacking.
Game management is about having two covering defenders not moving your quickest central defender to the right, maintaining a wall in front of the back four,pressingPlayers in possession, not over celebrating when you go 3-2 up rather than getting back into shape and not giving the possibility of yet more time to be added on.

It's not just about what the manager does its how experienced players take responsibility to organise shape to stop players charging forward and despite all the claims about being a young team there is plenty of experience but not using that experience to manage the game and in truth that's what makes a team win things