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thought the first set of subs came at about the right time personally. We needed some height in the box and fresh legs. Didn't think it effected our momentum.

Hard to argue. The safe one touch backwards pass is a killer if you want to get between the lines. Whether Jander can step up and offer enough defensive quality is to be seen.

what's your solution when the opponents press is excellent?

So everything bad is down to the head coach, everything good is down to the players. Gotcha.

Their press was excellent and we didn't know what to do. We looked terrible. Still seemed to sort it at half time though and we dominated. Shouldn't Still get a little credit for the changes he made at the break?

Maybe the whole midfield needed to work harder to find space. There wasn't a lot of it though, so the next option was to go longer and play off the striker, at least until the space opened up, but not sure Archer can do that. Tough for any striker. We need a way of countering the press

Evidently.

When the side doesn't play well is it simply the coach's fault? I thought he managed the game pretty well. He changed the formation before the game, which most wanted, he seemed to reinvigorate the side at half time after a poor first half and his subs in the second made sense. i thought it was always going to be hard changing formation during an international break and for this game, but I feel more confident than when we plated five at the back.

thats a foul. ref fucking killed us there.

nah, we'll get a winner.

their sub keeper looks a bit of a liability.

Still thinks the same by the looks of it.

they have tired ad the extra space has helped us. Can we take advantage?

Still going for it. like the subs.

not sure. Roerslev has been pretty good.

he's been really poor. Not sure Azaz has done much either.

we are on top and have been most of the second half. not done enough with it.

fair point, but n his pace allowed him to nip past the keeper only to fuck his shot up from a tight angle. Our best chance. he has looked a threat in the second half.

bad yellow to get for roerslev. murphy had enough to keep quiet.

archer providing good threat with his pace though. can't have both, sadly

Manning's marking of Poole there is criminal, pathetic.

We are simply unable to pass the ball through the lines - leading to us passing across the back line. Azaz needs to work much much harder to be available, as do the two wingers. Might open up second half a little as they tire. Hopefully. Got to stop the ball to Murphy. He's the stand out player.

Took a while before Martin found a role for him, but from December onwards he played a pretty major (central midfield) role in our promotion side. He has his limitations, but he is what Strachan would call brave - getting on the ball and keeping up despite pressure from an opponent, allowing player time to move into space. I guess there is time for him to move to Turkey, but he and Edozie training seems a good indication that no one is getting close to a deal.

I am wondering if the club's valuation was not met by those clubs? The bags packed/empty house instagram images was only a week ago, which suggested he was about to depart for somewhere.

Depends what you call concrete. In April he was linked by African press with a move to Goztepe. Back in June Turkish media reported that he'd been made an offer by Trabzonspor. In August it was reported in a Nigerian football website he was closing in on a deal with Samsunspor and then later in the month that Besiktas were interested, but Aribo wasn't.