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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2014 22:04:58 GMT
I liked this accidentally. I can't stress that enough. Press the like button again and magic happens. Much obliged.
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Post by Clem Fandango on Jan 8, 2014 22:21:56 GMT
The most frustrating element for me is that crouch often goes to the far post when a winger is putting a cross in which means that crosses tend to have to be more looping for him to get his head on it because of that keepers and defenders get a better chance of getting under it.
As for him not getting much from refs it annoys me that crouch insists on draping his arms over opposition defenders which I think does very little in terms of advantage but gives the ref something to penalize him for. In that sense he does himself no favors.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2014 22:23:40 GMT
I blame Kitson
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Post by Billy the kid on Jan 8, 2014 22:25:43 GMT
Im not a huge fan of walters, but his crossing has come on, he crossed 3-4 in the first half against everton that were bloody good crosses.
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Post by mickstupp on Jan 8, 2014 22:26:10 GMT
The most frustrating element for me is that crouch often goes to the far post when a winger is putting a cross in which means that crosses tend to have to be more looping for him to get his head on it because of that keepers and defenders get a better chance of getting under it. As for him not getting much from refs it annoys me that crouch insists on draping his arms over opposition defenders which I think does very little in terms of advantage but gives the ref something to penalize him for. In that sense he does himself no favors. Agree. Crouch always goes back post which doesn't help matters at all. The occasional change to a front post move would keep defenders guessing and allow midfield to get to the back post.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jan 9, 2014 0:13:55 GMT
Do you not think that Crouchie's movement to the back post is as much about creating space in the middle, and to create a bit of a back stop for the deflections and over hit crosses. For all his faults 'footballing intelligence' isn't one of Peter's problems. No one is exploiting the space Crouchie creates,. It's as much to do with us playing with a false No.9. i.e. We havn't got one.
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Post by swampdog on Jan 9, 2014 0:16:07 GMT
Perhaps we should sign some taller players?
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Post by lordb on Jan 9, 2014 13:25:57 GMT
Tall centre forwards should nearly always head for the far post Thorne scored plenty where he would head Bjarni's crosses back accross goal. Cross from the left keeper facing that way,cross goes to back post,keeper has to turn. Providing the cross is good & the striker heads it cleanly then more often than not the keeper will have no chance.
However:
That works best when playing two strikers,tall guy heads for back post & the other striker heads for the near post dragging at least 1 defender away from the guy at the back. Now we (& almost every team) plays 1 striker then said striker will find himself having more defenders to deal with as such regardless of teh quality of the cross there are less headed goals from crossses to the far post.
The answer is either go back to 2 strikers or at least 1 midfielder has to get into the box on a frequent basis
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