thought Lenny the lion looked very nice in his kilt!
thought town were poor in the first half very slow and ponderous , Dundee played high up the park and parked two wingers on the half way line nuliffying the wing backs , i cant remmeber either of our wings backs getting over the half way line that often and they wont when they have to mark two wingers.
whilst towns defence communicate and are a lot more vocal than last season, they got opened up three times with a diaganole pass and a well timed run also on two occassions from corners / crosses Williams did pick not the player who dropped off him to then get a free header.
i thought the player was off side but Dundee scored from a penalty.
town looked to play it from the back but due to no out ball , they passed it from side to side or back to the keeper and were very slow and ponderous and were limited to a number of route one balls.
Vincelot was trying to be a link up player but the midfield was rather congested, thought town were lucky to get a soft penalty and Okenabirhie emphatcily smashed it home. town lucky to go in equal when Dundee hit the bar.
town really lacked a midfield general today, no real plan B for town in the first half and too many long balls.
a much better second half by town, better pace ,better movment , played higher up the park with some good runs from the wing back. Ricketts spent a lot of the second half screaming "play wide and press." morrison and Okenabirhie linked up together Okenabirhie who was very brave to go for a header with a good chance he was going to get a knock.Walker came on for Vincelot i thought Walker had a good game but he was not put under the sustained pressuer that Vincelot did.
lot of subs by Dundee united, town did really well to limit the chances and possession by Shankland only had one chance were fortunently for town he scuffed his shoot. town again caught out by not picking the players who drops off the defenders for corners / crosses.
we played Dundee's second string for 70 minutes.
some warning signs today that Ricketts will need to work on in training otherwise we will be punished by Portsmouth. both Villa and Dundee emplyed similier tactics to nuliffy the wing backs
thought town were poor in the first half very slow and ponderous , Dundee played high up the park and parked two wingers on the half way line nuliffying the wing backs , i cant remmeber either of our wings backs getting over the half way line that often and they wont when they have to mark two wingers.
whilst towns defence communicate and are a lot more vocal than last season, they got opened up three times with a diaganole pass and a well timed run also on two occassions from corners / crosses Williams did pick not the player who dropped off him to then get a free header.
i thought the player was off side but Dundee scored from a penalty.
town looked to play it from the back but due to no out ball , they passed it from side to side or back to the keeper and were very slow and ponderous and were limited to a number of route one balls.
Vincelot was trying to be a link up player but the midfield was rather congested, thought town were lucky to get a soft penalty and Okenabirhie emphatcily smashed it home. town lucky to go in equal when Dundee hit the bar.
town really lacked a midfield general today, no real plan B for town in the first half and too many long balls.
a much better second half by town, better pace ,better movment , played higher up the park with some good runs from the wing back. Ricketts spent a lot of the second half screaming "play wide and press." morrison and Okenabirhie linked up together Okenabirhie who was very brave to go for a header with a good chance he was going to get a knock.Walker came on for Vincelot i thought Walker had a good game but he was not put under the sustained pressuer that Vincelot did.
lot of subs by Dundee united, town did really well to limit the chances and possession by Shankland only had one chance were fortunently for town he scuffed his shoot. town again caught out by not picking the players who drops off the defenders for corners / crosses.
we played Dundee's second string for 70 minutes.
some warning signs today that Ricketts will need to work on in training otherwise we will be punished by Portsmouth. both Villa and Dundee emplyed similier tactics to nuliffy the wing backs
