Absolute fucking treachery at carton house today
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Arthur auditioning for a spot as an otb presenter with this rambling-pre-question-context-setting drivel.
That devastating first half showed how mad it is to fantasise that a return to some kind of Jack Charlton tactics could be effective in today’s international football. Sure, there’s always the slim hope you’ll force a defender into a mistake, but it’s much more likely that you get piggy-in-the-middled. This is why Stephen Kenny believed Ireland had to become a side who knew how to play with the ball.
Put ‘em under pressure football still exists, but now it looks like what Atalanta did to Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League final last May. The Italian team pressed man to man all over the pitch. When any Leverkusen player was on the ball there was an Atalanta player hunting him down. Whoever he might pass to would have another Atalanta player hunting him down.
Matching up man to man all over the pitch obviously meant that Atalanta were playing one on one at the back. This defied the conventional wisdom that you should aim to have one more defender than the opposition has attackers. Atalanta accepted that risk as a price worth paying for the ability to enforce their pressure game further up the pitch.
Compare this to what Ireland were trying to do on Saturday. We played a back five, including three centre backs who, most of the time, had nobody to mark. This meant that England had at least two and often three spare players in midfield. They played around the outnumbered Irish midfielders like they were training cones.
Yet the supposed increased defensive solidity brought by the extra defenders was illusory. Trent Alexander-Arnold played a 50-yard pass right through Ireland’s centre for the first goal. “Should never happen, at any level,” said Hallgrímsson.
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This fuckin simpleton giving his analysis now
Should never have hooked MacCallister bar he was injured and should have left Trent at right back. I was never a fan of jones and he was rock solid useless. Szosbolai should have been hooked. Missed Harvey Elliot today.
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Aren’t you the one making fun of young lads getting autographs from premiership players at the match last week. A fine hypocrite you are. Late shift tonight at the yacht club?
Jayo76
September 14, 2024, 4:26pm
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Thats a wake effort pal to be dishing out awards for that.
Why did you reply twice mate
Little_Lord_Fauntleroy:
Huh?
Ah yeah. Mocking kids at the Ireland b England game last week for wanting autographs. A fine role model you are
Jayo76
September 14, 2024, 4:28pm
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I felt entitled to, does it displease the Lord?
I get that but i dont understand the relevance to my initital post
Jayo76
September 14, 2024, 4:30pm
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He should be more interested in how his supposed local club are destroying kids dreams
