Kryan Bing
Well-known member
The amount of ball they had in their own half playing it from defender to defender then back again then to the midfielder to the defender etc must have accounted for a huge percentage of their possession stats. Utterly pointless.
We helped with that though by playing higher up the pitch. They had nowhere to go and didn't want to play the longer ball - It's beneath Shrek. He probably sees it has hoofball. When we went five at the back that all changed though because they were on the front foot a bit more. Same as the first 5/10 minutes when they were busy down the channels, that only happened because for some reason, we were playing quite deep. Slow off the mark probably.
However, Tanga showed in the second half with that delightful longball pass to Azeez, which tore them wide open, Hoofball and the longball are two different techniques.