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whufc wrote:In this day and age its amazing when in that situation how many defenders still take the risk of fouling the opposition and getting the auto red despite the opposition still having to finish the goal.

More than ever teams are scoring from direct free kicks and refs are giving red cards 100% of time for those incidents.

I think defenders need to start to be willing to put on as much pressure as possible without giving away the foul, back your keeper in and stay on the park even if the opposition score, especially when your side is ahead.

legsman wrote:Reds gameplan appeared shot the moment they were reduced to 10 men.
For the amount of times it happens in a game, there doesn't seem to be much emphasis by teams to practice playing with 10 men.
Certainly not noticeable last night anyway, unfortunately for the 10,000+ that were there.

whufc wrote:

legsman wrote:Reds gameplan appeared shot the moment they were reduced to 10 men.
For the amount of times it happens in a game, there doesn't seem to be much emphasis by teams to practice playing with 10 men.
Certainly not noticeable last night anyway, unfortunately for the 10,000+ that were there.

I think its almost more of a mental advantage than a tactical one.

The team that has the extra man gets a massive confidence boost especially in last nights game where in one moment they went from looking like losing 5-6 nil to being back in the game.

The team with the man down then relies on a the utmost commitment for the rest of the 90mins. If a player gets a tad lazy or has a mental lapse there is little room for error.

Also thought the Djite for Van Dyk sub was a wasted one while ten men down.

Jim05 wrote:

whufc wrote:

legsman wrote:Reds gameplan appeared shot the moment they were reduced to 10 men.
For the amount of times it happens in a game, there doesn't seem to be much emphasis by teams to practice playing with 10 men.
Certainly not noticeable last night anyway, unfortunately for the 10,000+ that were there.

I think its almost more of a mental advantage than a tactical one.

The team that has the extra man gets a massive confidence boost especially in last nights game where in one moment they went from looking like losing 5-6 nil to being back in the game.

The team with the man down then relies on a the utmost commitment for the rest of the 90mins. If a player gets a tad lazy or has a mental lapse there is little room for error.

Also thought the Djite for Van Dyk sub was a wasted one while ten men down.

If he was on from the start we would have been 6 up. Cant understand Kossi's attitude towards him, far better than Djite.
Was impressed with Geronimo's little cameo, can see him being a real fan favourite