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Post by ukcstokie on Oct 2, 2015 0:26:35 GMT
Are these becoming less often? I seem to remember seeing the likes of Bertie, Steino, Carruthers (cough) being through on goal, one-on-one with the keeper at least once per game.
You don't see that type of chance too often now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 6:10:48 GMT
That's because our build up play is so slow.
You still get the odd breakaway from a corner like Diouf at Man C last season but generally teams don't defend with a high line against pacey strikers
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Post by StoKeith on Oct 2, 2015 6:28:44 GMT
Maybe, but both our goals against Leicester were from one-on-ones, so I was pleased that Bojan and Walters were so level headed with their opportunities.
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Post by Robo10 on Oct 2, 2015 6:33:15 GMT
You see less in general full stop - possibly I think due to defensive tactics changing
The old days of a high line and players running from halfway dont happen now until much later in a game when teams are chasing (they were standard tactics from the start at one point! Arsenal, all 4 defenders hands aloft for offside!)
Now defenses sit deeper, protected by 1 maybe 2 CDMs that are all the rage - moved on from 442 to new fangled 4-2-3-1 or similar.
Am sure we will go back at some point!
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Post by carruthers1on1 on Oct 2, 2015 7:20:40 GMT
Every time MC went through I truly believed that this could finally be his moment. And almost every time my boyish dreams were dashed. Football really was character building in those days
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Post by thestatusquo on Oct 2, 2015 12:06:19 GMT
Every time MC went through I truly believed that this could finally be his moment. And almost every time my boyish dreams were dashed. Football really was character building in those days He probably had a conversion rate on 1 in 10 ! |
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Post by Northy on Oct 2, 2015 12:22:31 GMT
If only Mahoney and Greenhoff could have finished off their one on ones at Hillsborough in 71 ....
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Post by Jamo on the wing on Oct 2, 2015 12:32:58 GMT
Every time MC went through I truly believed that this could finally be his moment. And almost every time my boyish dreams were dashed. Football really was character building in those days Someone put a picture of Jigsaw on Twitter this week. It all started so promisingly as well with that absolute snorter against Mansfield in the League Cup. |
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Post by foster on Oct 2, 2015 12:41:20 GMT
Teams know what to expect when they play us so they tend to park the bus in order to negate our free flowing and dominant attacking style.
Hence, why we don't get many one on one situations.
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Post by Gods on Oct 2, 2015 12:43:19 GMT
I think fitness levels and speed have increased beyond recognition. There is no space anywhere on the pitch these days. Watch a bit of the 1966 World Cup Final if you get a moment, there are spaces the size of an airfield all over the pitch and that was the pinnacle of the game at the time. As for Carruthers ridiculous as it may seem you are right, I remember being at Reading for our first FA Cup win against anyone for about 20 years and MC bore down on the goal all alone and finished with aplomb for the only goal of the game. There were grown men who looked like they had seen a ghost    |
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Post by Gods on Oct 2, 2015 12:45:36 GMT
The other thing you never see, certainly not from us anyway, is a corner coming over and a center half rising like a salmon to plant a header straight in the back of the net.
I think that is partly down to personnel but it rarely happens for anyone these days and I think that is down to the all in wrestling match which accompanies every corner these days.
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