I've just said the same thing on the motm thread! Way too slow to be thinking he can carry that extra wheight and get away with it!
Oh so now its changed to 'towards the end'... As i said, nothing wrong with drawing away in the first leg as long as its a score draw.
I actually think the Stuttgart performance probably changed SB plan of what team to put out against Lokeren, probably won't make that mistake again. If we had lost or performed poorly against Stuttgart then I am sure the team would have been different at Lokeren.
BCC made my point better than I could. It's not that I have s problem with any of tuose individuals playing, I do think 9 changes is excessive but could live with it if the team still looked good enough. But resting both our strikers when we don't have any cover was stupid. We looked totally blunt for 65 minutes and that wasn't a surprise at all given the line up. It's the inevitability of it that's frustrating. You could see we'd struggle to get an away goal with Sagbo on his own. The last few minutes showed how much better than them we should actually have been.
Given Brucey's priorities (which are abundantly clear), the lack of cover means there's more reason to rest/protect his first-choice strikers, not less.
If we'd come away 0-0 we'd be disappointed, as at Zilina, but not annoyed. McGregor's blunder made the whole thing feel worse, without that they wouldn't have scored. We just need to play a stronger team at home and win 3-0 for a comfortable gap, 2-0 and defending after would make a very nervy finish. If we can't beat them at least 2-0 at home we'll deserve to go out. The question is, will he put a stronger team out (which should be good enough) or name a similar team, which might lack attacking bite again and fall short?
Can't have been that bad then as NFU held us to a 1-1 draw when we had a £12m larker to score for us!
Well yeah I explained why I said towards the end. They were constantly knocked out otherwise trying to go toe to toe with the other big European sides away from home. So he took a more cautious approach to the away leg. Most English teams do now.
Interesting. I seem to recall him winning it twice at times that were nowhere near 'towards the end'.
