Not impressed with reverting to one up again. But this is one we should be winning however we line up.
Match Day Thread Ipswich Town vs AFC Wimbledon
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Common sense. This system was a disaster for us last season. Why persist with it? This is the most inferior opposition we have met in the league in the modern era.
Tony Cottee poor sod is bored as arseholes!
18,000 there tonight!
just wish our team was as fabulous as our support!
18,000 there tonight!
just wish our team was as fabulous as our support!
Wtf is Donacian doing, fecking useless twat, how he is ever a pro footballer...
Can we bin your attitude first?
This is the biggest shovel of s I have ever seen from a Town side.
We have some good options on the bench - Dozzell should be nowhere near the first team.
The manager has got the options to win the second half by two clear goals but we need immediate changes and reaction.
Can we bin your attitude first?
Mick Mills is saying exactly what I have been saying, albeit in a more polite way.
Poor first half.
Slow build up play and not enough width. Rowe is hugging the touch line and I like that. Trouble is he's got Donacien playing behind him and is suffering for it. Janoi has been really bad, he is reluctant to play the ball forward and Rowe is suffering because of it. El Mizouni is in the game but not wide enough at times, Kenlock has had a lot of the ball but has to go back inside instead of down the line. Dozzell hasn't done much, Downes a little better.
Wimbledon didn't make it easy for us in the opening twenty, keeping everybody behind the ball and closing the gaps. They then grew into the game and their front two offer more threat than our front line.
Here's hoping we can step it up in the second half
Slow build up play and not enough width. Rowe is hugging the touch line and I like that. Trouble is he's got Donacien playing behind him and is suffering for it. Janoi has been really bad, he is reluctant to play the ball forward and Rowe is suffering because of it. El Mizouni is in the game but not wide enough at times, Kenlock has had a lot of the ball but has to go back inside instead of down the line. Dozzell hasn't done much, Downes a little better.
Wimbledon didn't make it easy for us in the opening twenty, keeping everybody behind the ball and closing the gaps. They then grew into the game and their front two offer more threat than our front line.
Here's hoping we can step it up in the second half
Don't worry Spanish, it will be Vincent-Young and Garbutt in those positions soon enough. Rowe's performances will improve with KVY behind him.
I imagine we will take off Dozzell for Jackson and bring on Judge or Edwards for El Mizouni at half time, and go to 4-4-2 and maybe squeak an equaliser.
What is evidently clear is that this system has not been taught to these players. Either that, or they have no idea what they’re supposed to do out there. Regardless of how we’ve lined up this season, we’ve consistently opted for long, diagonal balls this season. If we are going to do that with one striker up front, then it’s pointless. Play two banks of four and two up top and play long ball football. If it gets us promoted, there won’t be many complaints.
The wider point is that we are five games into this season and we’re on course for winning only one of them. Lambert has had long enough to get his ideas across. It is coming up to year since his appointment and there are no clear signs of improvement on the pitch, even at a level below the Championship. Not good enough.
What is evidently clear is that this system has not been taught to these players. Either that, or they have no idea what they’re supposed to do out there. Regardless of how we’ve lined up this season, we’ve consistently opted for long, diagonal balls this season. If we are going to do that with one striker up front, then it’s pointless. Play two banks of four and two up top and play long ball football. If it gets us promoted, there won’t be many complaints.
The wider point is that we are five games into this season and we’re on course for winning only one of them. Lambert has had long enough to get his ideas across. It is coming up to year since his appointment and there are no clear signs of improvement on the pitch, even at a level below the Championship. Not good enough.