- Barcellos & Theo running the ball into traffic.
Not suited style against Sydney.
- Torres not making those bursting inside runs now for about 8 games, or working narrower of Nizzy left shoulder for the lay off.
- Nizzy should have started deeper and maybe do a more skilful 4-5-1 with Dipizio starting.
- We kept trying to play to feet but a Sydney player up the arse of the recieving player 9 out of 10 times, meaning we lost possession 9/10 times basically being dispossessed from pressure.
- Not having Farrell hurt us a lot as well, his mungrel and big moments can fire us up.
- However Sydney could have easily had a few more goals, Kaltak and Hall saved us with last ditch defending many times. Basically both turned into sweepers cutting out wide balls.
- I feel we maybe didn’t analyse the Wellington tactics vs Sydney enough or we decided that we were going to stick to playing our own game and try and go for it as usual.
- Kuol, Reec and Nizzy did try and bring the team forward with our own press but the next 2 lines were hesitant to commit to rushing them at that sprinting pace, and then they played around our forwards and our mids and wide defenders were NOT right on the Sydney players arses, meaning they had time for a touch to control the ball which they were not giving us!
* Can’t win them all but disappointed Jacko didn’t see this coming.
If we were going to keep Nizzy high as soon as they had the ball with their fullbacks our whole team needed to press at the same pace and move as one unit from the first whistle.
If we weren’t going to go as hard as them we should have gone with more long balls in first half to take away their confidence and not show our hand until second half.
Or altered structure for a flat 5 midfield to block them out from the middle.
Not suited style against Sydney.
- Torres not making those bursting inside runs now for about 8 games, or working narrower of Nizzy left shoulder for the lay off.
- Nizzy should have started deeper and maybe do a more skilful 4-5-1 with Dipizio starting.
- We kept trying to play to feet but a Sydney player up the arse of the recieving player 9 out of 10 times, meaning we lost possession 9/10 times basically being dispossessed from pressure.
- Not having Farrell hurt us a lot as well, his mungrel and big moments can fire us up.
- However Sydney could have easily had a few more goals, Kaltak and Hall saved us with last ditch defending many times. Basically both turned into sweepers cutting out wide balls.
- I feel we maybe didn’t analyse the Wellington tactics vs Sydney enough or we decided that we were going to stick to playing our own game and try and go for it as usual.
- Kuol, Reec and Nizzy did try and bring the team forward with our own press but the next 2 lines were hesitant to commit to rushing them at that sprinting pace, and then they played around our forwards and our mids and wide defenders were NOT right on the Sydney players arses, meaning they had time for a touch to control the ball which they were not giving us!
* Can’t win them all but disappointed Jacko didn’t see this coming.
If we were going to keep Nizzy high as soon as they had the ball with their fullbacks our whole team needed to press at the same pace and move as one unit from the first whistle.
If we weren’t going to go as hard as them we should have gone with more long balls in first half to take away their confidence and not show our hand until second half.
Or altered structure for a flat 5 midfield to block them out from the middle.
