Great read, and it seems he knows more about our team than some of our own fans! http://www.thisisanfield.com/2013/11/opposition-analysis-hull-city/?
Interesting reading. It highlights the fact that we are putting a lot of crosses into the box, which are not being capitalised on by our forwards.
Yep, unbelievable eh. If our forwards cant score from that number of crosses during a game then maybe we have the wrong forwards.................or the wrong tactics, or both nb This site is doing my nut in today!
To be fair, they need to be in position in the box waiting for the cross to come in. Sagbo does so much running outside of the area, that he can't get in a position to get an effort on goal. Unless it's cut back like his goal at Everton. We need a goal scrounger. I'm all for City keeping the ball (we made the 2 Sunderland players make those reckless challenges doing that) as long as we create something from it.
Agree with you about the slow build-up play.Perhaps it is to some extent because everything has to go through Huddleston and nobody else is prepared to initiate attacks without him being involved?
well we haven't really got a proper centre forward have we we all know that, it is a good read and i must expect a 2 or 3 to 0 scoreline, we do go down the wings but are not buzzing like we were before the Southampton game i hope we have more pace on the wings for this game and if he plays i hope Brady is back to his best, i also think we won,t have a lot of possession so will have to catch them on the break but with Aluko out have we got the pace to do so. Also the defence is going to come up against forwards that play everything on the ground with pace which will be difficult. Overall i just hope we compete well and that means going for the full 90 mins not just the first ten, its going to be a very very hard game and i hope the crowd play there part and drive the lads on. Hopefully the team an fans will give 110% and even then will it be enough lets hope so
Could be right about Huddleston. At a team like Spurs he would play with forwards that would find the spaces - an outlet for his creative passes. If forwards are not looking for that gap in the defence the options are limited, making him less effective.
He needs to play a bit further forward. And we need to play Boyd, Brady & Koren in their proper places. otherwise they're wasted.
You really are such a prick at times, you ought to enter BGT as a super prick, you have all the attributes to win it.
Statistics dont mean much unless you look at the game. That's why I'm not a great ProZone fan. It can help to understand formations and threats but little else. Three dangerous crosses are more useful than 30 poor crosses. I think there's a lot of sense talked on this thread. You need a poacher and somebody supporting him and players getting into crossing positions from out wide. We've only had one forward in the middle and the wide players rarely achieve dangerous crosses - more likely hopeful lobs. Look at when we had Windass and Campbell working together and even some games last season. Too often this season players have been isolated - that's why the Premier League is so different for us.
It doesn't matter how many Elmo crosses when they've all been ****, we need a right winger that will take on a man and cut into the box or mix up the way he crosses the ball instead of just floating it in towards their CBs
Thing is, are they good crosses that just aren't attacked properly or are they poor crosses? I can remember 4 or 5 this season just from when Elmo was in front of the East Stand that he's put a good ball in behind the centre backs in front of the keeper that have just trickled out for throws because no one was in any sort of position to attack the ball. He could put the ball in the perfect position but if there's no one in the box to get on the end of it there's no point.
It's a bit of both. Certainly he's not running at his man as much as last season and is just crossing from deep instead, which is easier to defend. Even last year when he crossed it from deep it was a lot more effective than it has been this season. Some of them are still accurate and go into great areas but no one attacks them. Gedo showed us last season he can do that.
He can still put in a good ball from deep, like the one he put in for Prossys goal against Ipswich, but I agree about him getting down the line at his man. A lot of times last year he'd take a man on and get a good ball into the back post or win a corner from putting his man on his arse. For a lot of players I'd say its a confidence thing like it is with Graham, but Elmo doesn't seem the type to suffer with confidence to me.
