Tactics for Wednesday

[redandwhiterob]

Anybody else reckon we should start with Crouch and Rooney up front and just bypass the midfield.

Our opponents just need a draw and will no doubt be 9-10 men behind the ball job and it has been shown that our midfield in not good enough to pass round this and create things.

Basically just kick and rush and then work off the scraps in the box/last 3rd of the field.

Not something I would advocate normally but one lucky bounce in the box could lead to a goal and then the whole mood of the players, fans could change.

Shit or bust time really

[Patch Lafayette]

Originally Posted by redandwhiterob

Anybody else reckon we should start with Crouch and Rooney up front and just bypass the midfield.

Our opponents just need a draw and will no doubt be 9-10 men behind the ball job and it has been shown that our midfield in not good enough to pass round this and create things.

Basically just kick and rush and then work off the scraps in the box/last 3rd of the field.

Not something I would advocate normally but one lucky bounce in the box could lead to a goal and then the whole mood of the players, fans could change.

Shit or bust time really

I'd be more inclined to get a five man midfield with Rooney up front on his own and some of our midfielders earning their corn and getting past him. I think Cole needs to be playing on the left. Get the ball to the full backs from the keeper a bit more too, I think we've two of the best full back pairings in the tournament if we use them properly

[redandwhiterob]

Originally Posted by Patch Lafayette

I'd be more inclined to get a five man midfield with Rooney up front on his own and some of our midfielders earning their corn and getting past him. I think Cole needs to be playing on the left. Get the ball to the full backs from the keeper a bit more too, I think we've two of the best full back pairings in the tournament if we use them properly

The way the players are playing at the moment I dont think we are capable of playing round a organised team who will be looking to frustrate and packing the midfield tbh

So if we are not capable of playing round them at the moment just bypass the fucker.

If we can get that one lucky beak and get a goal the confidence could come flowing back and then you never know what might happen

[the streaker]

Sod one up front Crouch is the only forward whose scored for us in about the last 6 months and he has to start...

We dont score we go home and hes the best bet to do that.....

[Mercia Blackcat]

Yes I tend to agree.

It's no good trying to do an Arsenal and walk the ball into the net. Their defence will be packed and their midfield will sit right in front of them, very deep, with them looking to hit us on the counter.

I would also tell our midfield to shoot on sight even if they can't hit the target, increased chances of deflections in a packed defence and corners to keep the pressure up.

Sometimes you have to just go for the throat through route one although I would have Gerrard sat just behind the strikers in an attacking midfield role. It's no good pumping in high crosses without someone tall enough to get on the end of them as we have seen so far.

A kinda 4-3-1-2.

I generally prefer a 4-5-1 with Gerrard the player behind Rooney but we are in the knockout stage and each game has to be taken in isolation now with the tactics chosen to set the tone for each opponent and specific circumstances.

[rowley2]

Pass it around at the back a bit, where there is no one pressing them, trying to look like international footballers. Then belt it high and hard up the pitch, whether Heskey's nut is here to bounce it off or not.

Get a one nil lead, and then concede a laughable equaliser late in the second half. And it will all have been the fault of the pitches, or the ball, or the racket of the vuvus, or the supporters, or the press, or the manager. Because, as we all know, the team has loads of world class players in it.

[Mainze]

I honestly don't give a flying fuck. My contempt for those wankers is beyond belief now. Working instead of watching.

[magnum]

Would be nice if we actually out footballed the opposition like.We will probably pinch a 1-0 in an italian style of play

[Riviera]

Heskey is almost always the nearest player to goal and is incapable of scoring.
Rooney, Lampard and Gerrard can finish but they can barely see the goals from where they're playing.
If we play Rooney in front of goal and Gerrard backing him up it'll certainly make the defenders shaky.

Algeria looked so comfortable against Heskey that even our lass was cringing.

[The Exile]

We've got to hold and give, but do it at the right time. We can be slow or fast, but we must get to the line.