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Originally Posted by Toomer
Talking in the car on the way home, IMO Blackpool did their home work came down with a game plan. Get in our faces for the first 15 - 20 mins and stop us playing our passing game, it worked and we did not have an answer to it. I think we need someone a bit older and wiser in midfield and with a bit about him for matches like this. Wet have to get used to it a lot of teams will do the same.
Agreed. Other than Davis, we had problems with the spine of the team today, especially in central midfield where we neither won nor retained the ball nearly enough nor offered much protection to the centre backs and also, uncharacteristically, with Svensson at the back who lost the majority of aerial challenges. Schneiderlin and Gillet didn't offer sufficient protection as holding midfielders. Talented though McGoldrick is, on today's evidence I think he needs help up front from someone with a bit more presence.