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Match Thread Away v Leyton Tue Nov 24 7.00pm

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Keefly Bantam, Nov 23, 2020.

  1. Keefly Bantam

    Keefly Bantam Important Player
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    Looking at our ever increasing injury list I can see a very youthful team being sent out at Leyton Orient tomorrow night.

    Good chance to get more game time for the kids.

    Will we go 442 and look to nick a draw? Not how Stuart says he wants to play but surely needs must right now?

    Or go 352 and get opened up at will just like Saturday.

    Will he drop BRE (completely) and put Sikora in, who I thought did well when I saw him play.

    This will be a sign of how Stuart and Kenny are reacting under some considerable early season pressure.
     
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  2. trevor

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    4-4-2 for me with Evans and Donaldson up front, Evans looks poor in midfield but has proved himself as a scorer so put him where he can naturally play instead of a kid who does not look up to the mark
     
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    We don’t have the personnel for a 4-4-2 , you need decent wingers who track back to play what is a very old fashioned system and certainly Ismail and DMH won’t do that. I think he will play with his usual 3-5-2 with possibly one of the kids at the back and give Scales his full league debut in a midfield role. Evans up front is very likely.
     
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  4. Rcbantam

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    Go for draw :joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:
     
  5. Stafford Bantam

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    There, I've tidied that up for you.

    I can see nothing but a defeat, and probably a heavy one, for this match.
     
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  6. trevor

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    We have plenty of players to play 4-4-2 or a variation of it (4-3-3 ) It is a much simpler and effective system, I would argue we do not have the players to play 3-5-2 as we have no wing backs in the club and our downfall has been trying to play full backs there who have been caught in no mans land time after time,
     
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  7. Dennis

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    I can imagine Evans playing alongside Donaldson, say, because of injuries etc but it's a long time since he played in that role. He was played as a winger, wide midfielder and full back at Pompey and most of the goals he scored were as nominated penalty taker. Why we brought him in as a striker has defeated me as SMc recognised shortly after he joined us.
     
  8. JonButterfield

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    Daniel Johnson has scored 12 goals in 17 games in all competitions this season. That suggests not only is he on hot form (scored a hat trick in the last game), but that he is getting supply.

    They seem to play 4 3 3 which could be a nightmare for us.

    I think whether we get a draw or a tonking will depend a lot on how long we can hold out for, and how badly heads drop if we concede.

    I'm going to forecast a 1 1 draw though.
     
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  9. Onside87

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    Why are people asking for 4-4-2 HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Make your minds up!!! Who are these wingers we are expecting to play???
     
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  10. trevor

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    You are old fashioned, You do not need 2 wingers to play 4-4-2, Usually teams just play with one or use it as an extra midfielder to tuck in especially away, 4-3-3 is also a variation that most top sides use
     
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    Who would you play wide though Trevor in a 4-4-2. The perfect 4-4-2 team was with Beagrie and Lawrence in the promotion team of 98/99 Thompson and Reid could do it as well as they were effective going forward and tracked back, but there is nobody in this squad who could do that. 4-3-3 is a possibility but I then don’t think he will risk a young kid with just 2 centre backs and I think he’s poised to bring one in.
     
  12. Bronco

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    We had 5 midfielders at the weekend and created nothing apart from a Donaldson header that came from a cross from the wing. If you play central midfielders out on the right and left then they have a tendency to move inside. We have seen this problem before when McCall was chopping and changing every week and people called for 3-5-2 or 5-3-2 which ever way you want to interpret it. If he goes 4-4-2 tomorrow and we get beat then he gets murdered.
     
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    Zeli if fit ?.
     
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    He’s never fit and his version of tracking back is watching a player fly past him.
     
  16. bantam65

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    A reet tonking coming up for us methinks.....
     
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    Last 6 away LDWLLL

    3rd worst away record in L2 in last 6 games.

    Getting the results we deserve, not down to bad luck on the pitch or refereeing.

    Trying to be positive but only seeing another defeat away from home.
     
  18. Rogered Tart

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    Could be one of those freak results where we defy the odds ala Huddersfield in 87.
     
  19. Tony Wilkinson

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    I expect we'll be true to form and be 2 - 0 down within first 20 minutes.......
     
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  20. Dennis

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    Think positively! That's still 70 mins in which to score our 3 goals ;)
     

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