OK...... Pizzas, indian takeaways, new dive, double glasing, proper decent wall insulation and lots of catalogues for naughty gear will be incoming........ You normally have to be the prince of Namibia to get such personal details... top work Ristac.
Given you decided to eventually agree with me that it was a matter of not jumping and challenging and not being a matter of not being goal side i was bound to agree with my earlier point and your belated revion agreement with it....
Where have I agreed to this I stand by what I said he let vokes get in front of him thus giving him a free header which no keeper would have saved
Had a wee look at he goal myself, chaps, and seriously believe that even if Bellusci had followed your various advices, he still wouldn't have got near that ball. t was a peach perfect cross to a tall attacker in the most perfect place. It was either a goal or a penalty - Bellusci had no chance. Interestingly, I noticed that one of our players (bad quality video - couldn't tell you who it was) was sauntering back down our left, and with a bit of effort, could possibly have stopped the cross. Wanna have another look & see if I'm being unreasonable? (I'd also like to know who our player was).
There was as I originally said.( I do impressions) plenty of chance to get a tackle in on the wing before the cross came in....
60. Fair point. Even if Bellusci had done more to make his jump difficult would have helped. Real shame because I thought we were worth the win.
WJ. I agree with you, the problem was poor defending by two players on the touch line. He turned them in a very tight area. One of them should have taken ball or man.
I wasn't talking about the two on the touchline (and you're right btw - they should have put ball & man in the stand at that stage of the match!), I was talking about our 3rd man who was nonchalantly ambling back on our left side - he should have shown some urgency and intercepted on the touchline.
I watched it again on Youtube, if we had scored that goal we would have all agreed great cross perfect header, we would never have blamed poor defending. I don't think we have to really blame anyone for the goal, certainly not Bellusci
There were two unmarked guys inside the mysterious ambling Leeds player (I don't know who it was either!) so I'll cut him a pass for not closing down darikwa. I'm not a bellusci hater (I want to like him because he can play, but the accidents keep happening) but that one is on him for me. He Had vokes well covered before the cross came in. Vokes attacked the ball, he didn't. It was a great cross and a great header, but even if he's out jumped he needs to be making it difficult.
Milkyboy, it's all about opinions as they say. Is the fault the CB for not making the header or the RB for not cutting out the cross. For me, the two out wide should never have let him turn in such a narrow space. That was the place to make the tackle (foul) and regroup, much like their player did on Cook when he looked like making a quick break at their back four. That's just experience and our young lads will have learned from it.
.. As ristac said, we'd be saying great goal if we'd scored it. The burnley fans will be questioning the guy that got turned by antenucci, and the keeper's positioning! Always two sides to the coin. My take is the two guys double teaming Boyd are there to stop him getting a cross in and not the lay off and will think they did their job. Though there was definitely an argument for putting him through the hoardings. Be interesting to know who got the biggest b*llocking for it! All of them probably.
It looks like Cook to me. It's definitely someone wearing a 20+ number on his shirt, so at the time of the goal that means we would have Taylor 21, who was out on the wing, with the guy who played it back to Darikwa , Adeyemi 24 who's on the edge of the box, Berardi 28, who is in the box with their number 11, so that just leaves Cook with number 23. As for the goal don't think it is fair to single out any single player, there were enough players out of the left to have been able to stop any cross coming in, if Bellusci had put in a more determined challenge, it may have just been enough to put Volkes off, but as Ristac says, if we had scored that goal, we would be talking about the excellent attacking play and making no mention of the oppositions poor defending.
Not saying he was the only one to blame but he didn't jump. He didn't attack that ball when it came in, he was almost flat footed. You need to compete for every ball and he didn't even try. Definitely takes some blame for that.
