I don't think Ingram's long distance distribution is reliable enough to give him the confidence to move the ball out quickly,even assuming someone's there to receive it.
We also never use guile in setting up to play from the back, but hitting a long ball or vice versa. When Ingram decides to hit it long he virtually sends a telegram to the opposition.
We know Baxter is a better and quicker distributer of the ball. After Ingram's calamitous error for the first goal, I think it's time for a change.
If he does get dropped for 1 mistake after playing so well for 99.9% of the season , would you be happy to see Baxter dropped after 1 mistake if he'd been playing so well outside that mistake?
I don't think you can drop Ingram for that. He has to be given the opportunity at least to put it behind him.
Though the exact same. Held the ball for so long at times, I think back to Barnsley away last season how quick Baxter would pump the ball forward if he felt there was a chance.
Yes, absolutely that. Our central defenders have ample opportunity to play forward early, but by the time they've thought about it the gap is closed or the player marked. They don't have enough confidence in their own passing.
Utterly unbelievable. It's 2022, and you still think racist abuse is the same kind of thing as giving someone a v sign. Jesus.
Scouts of other clubs watch us, know we like to play it out of defence so closing us down quickly is the obvious answer, I thought on Saturday they pressed us well. It looked at times as though we never had a second on the ball before been closed down. On the other hand if we kick it forward we rarely win the header so that’s when the second ball is so important and that aggressive man in the middle is needed. We hardly got the ball off that big lad of theirs.
I think its five at the back that's the problem . We still are letting in too many goals and the rest of the team are easily marked and isolated. So they pass it to each other in defence before the inevitable ball back to ingram.
Competition doesn't need to bother with scouts, they can just come on here, plenty of folk posting what's wrong and how to beat us.
Its not just the error, it's his distribution. At the moment we are putting ourselves under pressure at the back and confidence looks to be on the wane. So we change something or we stay the same. I'd also give Mcloughlin a go over Alfie Jones if you must play 5 at the back ( I think Alfie's better as a DM) or think about going to 4. But it's Shota's call.
Every game we’ve been battered this season i.e. West Brom and QPR away and yesterday, the opposition in each of those games pressed us high up the pitch because they know how poor we are at playing out from the back. It’s an easy turnover of possession from the opponent’s perspective.
I think thats part of the strategy... to invite the press and then hopefully move it quickly forward... It actually worked twice yesterday and with the transfers I think we have people to take advantage of that.
Don't really think we can judge until we have a settled midfield - which we haven't had yet this season. We need a better understanding of when to play out and when to go long - but that's not going to develop overnight, especially when forced into constant changes.
Also what didn't help is every time we tried playing it out from the back almost every city player on the pitch stood still like a statue .
Re Oscar definitely spectacular I thought he was excellent in the first half especially shame he missed his chance at a a goal would have changed the game.
