Match Day Thread Derby v Hull City

Ndala off for the second half?

 

Thought we were doing ok in a rearguard action sort of way, but they've scored. Gelhardt, Drameh and Ndala have all been a bit toothless, careless with the ball. Let's see what second half brings.

 

Bring on Brown. He’ll run at them

He won’t come on though

 

Nothing much between the 2 sides IMO, I just get the feeling if we can up the tempo slightly we can get at them.

 

First half stats
Goals: 1-0

Shots: 5-1

On target: 1-0

Off target: 0-1

Touches in the box: 6-0

Fouls: 7-4

Corners: 4-1

Possession: 50-50%

Attendance:

 

We've done brilliantly without McBurnie, Belloumi and Millar upfront, plugged manfully by Gelhardt on his own, but it always felt like this would be a game too far. Hope I'm proved wrong.

 

How do we improve?

We're playing 3 at the back in order to get the wing backs forward. Not happening.

2 maraudering wide men. Neither maraudering.

Midfield players bursting forward to create the extra man? No bursting apparent.

Target man through the middle. Not being a target and not in the middle.

 

The only attacking players on the bench are

Akintola, brown and destan..

 

Old Tibetan writing “ better to be a tiger for a day rather than a sheep for a lifetime

 

He might need to go 4 at the back and try to go through them a bit more with an extra midfielder.
5 was probably to try and contain their front 3 which largely worked - goal was a set piece and Ajayi was out muscled.
Derby are a decent side.

 

I read that as Bring on Bowen.


If only...

 

No point knocking long balls to Joe and Joseph in the air . Elder is all over Joe quickly

 

I would put Gelhardt through the middle, KJ out left for a short while see how it goes, then swap Akintola for Ndala and put him on the right. We are limited.

 

Drameh and Gelhardt not working well together imo, Coyle on for Drameh maybe?

 

Tbh do t think we've done that bad, got outmuscled for the goal, and Jospeh getting bullied up front, can see us getting back into it though, or at least hope. In Serj we trust.

 

Proper forwards header that goal
Our man weak as piss

 

5 of the top 7 losing at half time.

Including Coventry, who are on the way to losing back-to-back games. Something they did 5 times last season - go on a winning run then lose 2 in a row.

 

Don’t know what we can do to swing this more in our favour, to be honest.

 

Physically dominating us

 

Weve not played bad perse
Just lacking that bit of quality from the injured players

No lack of effort, just cant really create anything

Proper old style championship game