23-11-2017, 13:17
Poor old Binnom-Williams got better and better in our supporters' eyes simply by not playing. Tuesday was his second proper outing since the trip to Portugal. I think he got 10 first team games last season. He's very inexperienced and he's been injured a lot. Did we think he would come in and be the Division 2 Paul Pogba? We can expect him to make a mistake or two, he will if we play him further forward too ........ but they'll cause an attack to break down rather than a goal to be conceded.
It's hard to distinguish between taking your foot off the gas and closing out a game like the Italians. Last ten minutes they'll play possession, slow the game down, waste time and expend very little energy doing that. They will however close the opposition down very effectively when they lose the ball. Now the fact that Forest Green only managed three efforts on goal in the whole game suggests we didn't do a bad job of stifling a lively attacking force.
Getting the ball forward can be an effective way of keeping the opposition from your goal, BUT it is often the most certain way of giving them the ball back. If you get the ball upfield in these circumstances you have to be capable of holding onto it ....... or speeding away to score another goal because you have sucked the defence forward. Do either of those sound like us?
It's hard to distinguish between taking your foot off the gas and closing out a game like the Italians. Last ten minutes they'll play possession, slow the game down, waste time and expend very little energy doing that. They will however close the opposition down very effectively when they lose the ball. Now the fact that Forest Green only managed three efforts on goal in the whole game suggests we didn't do a bad job of stifling a lively attacking force.
Getting the ball forward can be an effective way of keeping the opposition from your goal, BUT it is often the most certain way of giving them the ball back. If you get the ball upfield in these circumstances you have to be capable of holding onto it ....... or speeding away to score another goal because you have sucked the defence forward. Do either of those sound like us?