Disagree. Markovic played with 3 cm's behind him. More likely maloney. We'd have been very weak with mbok, grosshitski maloney and markovic. That would be more 4-2-4. They werent unlucky they were poorly executed. He flattered to deceive yesterday. As Sid said id be happy to see him coming off the bench with 20 minutes to go.
As being reported we are waiting Sorry disagree, Maloney came in for Evandro and Elmo came in for Markovic. I have to agree Mbokani & Maloney didn't threaten enough, but that is mostly down to the way Burnley play and defend. When Hudd come forward we looked more threatening, he can play these nice one two's, as he did when Westwood pulled him back and Grosicki put the fee kick over the bar.
I dont know why Tom kept dropping so deep. My mate was convinced we were playing a back 3 first half. Way too deep. He needed to be in CM and drawing Barton into challenges. He kept pinging some lovely long balls but the player he hit was so isolated all the time. Then N'diaye was pulling to the touchline, proper head scratcher formation. Ad yet we were all over the place against a good old 4-4-2. Bizarre.
Disappointing result yesterday. We looked good in spells but it wasn't a fluent performance by any stretch. Burnley came for a point and got a point and their game plan worked. Certainly not as devastating as previous top flight encounters with them and yesterday probably provided a bit of a reality check. I guess we'll see in the next couple of weeks what the value of yesterday's point is; at least Leicester and Swansea are more likely to come out and attack than sit out for a point and stifle our play. Yesterday was a winnable opportunity missed but we seem to have enough about us to stay up. One poor result and the negative/pessimistic comments were flying about like confetti on Humberside and Twitter yesterday. I trust Marco to get things right for us. Roll on Leicester.
When Huddlestone, Frog and Maguire had the ball everyone ran up the pitch like a U12's team. Especially when we went two up top.
The only thing I can think of was Harry was definitely struggling with his knee, also Jak did something to his groan and wasn't able to kick the ball, so Hudd was coming back quite often to be there to pick it up from the keeper. As a matter of interest Harry said after the game that he had been suffering a knee problem for 4 weeks but they were managing it, but it was made worse when ****ing Boyd stamped on it. He didn't say ****ing my the way, just a bit of my poetic licence there.
Very true about Barnes Jak was also telling the ball boys to relax and not rush too much when we were winning (sadly that didn't last too long)
Must try harder Tigress See if you can figure out the words next time , and maybe hum the tune into one of those apps that tells you what the song is?!(Shazam?)
They bloody well do When we were winning start of the season they falling over themselves to rush the ball back to the opposition! Idiots
Felt like a defeat yesterday but it was a reality check without defeat and dropped points against a team who will not be relegated. We learnt a few lessons and still have time -whereas Burnley at home has signalled outr past two relegations. Dyche is their main man. Without him, their team would be of Championship standard. My manager of the year.
Tom wasn't dropping into the back four to defend though, he did it when we had possession. I think we did it to draw them out, and it worked a few times when we got Grosicki in behind them. N'Diaye seemed to pull wide to target Boyd's and Brady's weak tackling. The game wasn't much of a spectacle but it was a fascinating tactical battle. Burnley were just ridiculously defensive and time wasting, what a shower of twats.
N5 this season Dennis Was N4 last season Near the top, next to away fans The are N5 half way down There old enough go to home games on there own but can still mug at half time. Noise level only took off for 5 mins. Strange really
