3-0 up at half time was an ideal opportunity to try a plan B - say Varney and McLoud up front, especially as their centre halves were not the quickest. Instead we continued to lump it up to Iwelumo and get lucky with second balls. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure big Chris did not have the ball under his control at any stage during the 90 minutes.
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Apart from the time he stuck it in the corner of their net...
Spot on, exactly what we were saying....great time to go 4-4-2 with Varney and McCleod given a chance, instead we sat back and invited them on for 20 mins and were lucky it wasn't 3-3.....and Big Chris knew nothing about his goal, it just hit him !!!, thought he was pretty poor saturday.
I sorry, thats total cock. He stooped and chested the ball in.
Thought he had an excellent first half, and was a major contributor to creating all sorts of problems for them. In the second de Vos was often all over him and as usual he got little protection from the ref.
We even deviated from the standard red army and the droning CAFC at times!
It's not a problem so much away because the team play more packed together in midfield - so the knockdowns are more often picked up - and the quick break is on.
But at home, we tend to be far more open and should have wide men available & looking. Ball to feet is more or less essential - look how lethal we were on Saturday with ball to feet for the first goal:
Sam wins the ball well, runs with it, Holland overlaps as Sam lays the ball into his path. A first class cross - from
the BYELINE, always hard to defend - and Ambrose can't miss with the header.
It really can be that simple.
And generally much more effective than just lumping a high ball to Big Chris on his own when surrounded by defenders.
agree that we were a bit fortunate it wasn't 3-3 ten minutes into the 2nd half, after they missed a pen, hit the bar and then scored...