At the moment we look very sloppy and several of our passes have gone astray. We seem to be very slow and deliberate without any real cutting edge.
A lot of our play is sideways and backwards without any end product.
Despite the dessert and coffees I still managed to get back for the 72m and what I saw mirrors your comments stoatey - too little end product for possession. BOS was not trying to get past their RB (who looks good) and we are failing to draw back balls on the line for oncoming players to attack. Too predictable!
I might add that (accepting I only saw a little) each time Wallace was failing to close down their player?
Last Edit: Sept 18, 2020 20:51:23 GMT by kingfisher
Post by northwesthoop on Sept 18, 2020 20:51:52 GMT
That was so infuriating and so predictable.
As stoatey pointed out in the match updates they threatened from 2 corners in the 10 minutes before finally scoring. They just put it in the same place each time and we were lucky the first 2 times not to concede...but didn't learn. So naive.
We were good on the ball up until we took the lead in the game, but even then hadn't threatened. Dykes barely had a sniff.
Chair is still young and still learning but he was poor tonight, he took the sting out of our attacks and counters time after time. I don't think he played a forward pass.
To be honest we didn't have many chances against Forest. Something is lacking in the final third. Eze obviously, but our final pass isn't there at the moment.
It is still early in the season but it does look like same old QPR. A very, very frustrating match.
And yet we put ourselves in a good position to win early on and really should have got a draw after Barbet scored.
Exactly, when we go 1-0 up near half time we have to go in at the break 1-0 up. We were in the driving seat, were the better team and that goal against us changed the whole game. We were never the same after that. Poor game management.
Then once Barbet scores we should have been happy with 2-2. We were clearly not at the races second half, so just take the point, learn from our errors, but stay unbeaten.....but NO. We blow it again.
Coventrys first goal caused by Wallace losing his man.
Coventry 2nd goal and Wallace and Barbet nowhere to be seen
Coventry 3rd goal was just atrocious set piece defending with Dykes losing his man and Barbet ducking under the ball to allow the Coventry centre back a free header. Nobody can say Coventry didn't signal what they were doing. They had 3 corners in quick succession, the first was headed just over, the 2nd was a weak header that Lumley saved at his feet and then it was 3rd time lucky.
Post by northwesthoop on Sept 18, 2020 21:16:23 GMT
For the third goal we knew what was coming. They weren't doing anything special, every ball was the same. So we should have got another body in that area or blocked the runs. Lumley could have stood a bit further off his like perhaps, to give him a chance to come and punch it. We just did nothing. It was so inevitable, I was dreading conceding another corner.
Also, as decent as we were last week and in the opening half tonight, something isn't clicking in the final third. We haven't really tested the keepers in either game, which is odd considering we've scored 4 goals. Our final ball isn't there and our decision making doesn't seem right.
Last Edit: Sept 18, 2020 21:27:34 GMT by northwesthoop
Tonight we saw all the bad habits from last season return.
Lots of possession but if you dont create chances whats the point. We passed sideways, we passed backwards but there were very few chances created by passing forward.
Warburton was interviewed the other day by the Forever Rs site and he got very upset when they suggested we didnt practice our set piece defending. The issue is that they might practice but the likes of Barbet and Wallace are poor defensively and it's no good practising if the players arent good enough to carry out your instructions.
This team is now full of Warburton players so the blame for the continued poor tactics, poor defending and lack of creativity is all down to him.
Hmmm...I’ve been critical at times of MW but I think I’m going to come to his defence...he must be even more fed up than us...I think his tactics last 2 games has been spot on...yes they are his players but he can’t play the game for them.
It’s not a good day at the office when Kakay looks like the only competent player
Hmmm...I’ve been critical at times of MW but I think I’m going to come to his defence...he must be even more fed up than us...I think his tactics last 2 games has been spot on...yes they are his players but he can’t play the game for them.
It’s not a good day at the office when Kakay looks like the only competent player
I agree totally that Warburton must despair when he sees the way we defend crosses and set pieces. The issue I have is why do we make the the same mistakes every game. Last season we had some different players in the team and still couldn't defend set pieces. If you change players and we still make the same mistakes then surely it has to be the managers tactics and how he sets up.
I don't want to see another new manager and loads of changes but how many chances do we give Warburton and his coaches to sort out the defence.
Last week we got a good result by beating Forest and yet Warburton didnt seem to learn a thing. Forest had plenty of chances and if Grabben had taken 1 or 2 of them the result might have been different. The weak areas of defending in the Forest game were no different against Coventry and they took their chances.
We were rubbish last week and if Forest had their shooting boots on we probably would of lost Last night we were one dimensional and looked lightweight and very slow Amos and Carroll are useless and I think losing eze is a bigger void to fill than we think Coventry weren’t very good and we still only scored by our penalty man and one off Barbet like Brazil goal we need a new keeper a decent defender as dickie looks nervous and would settle with a better defender alongside him we don’t create nothing for dykes to feed off and some players look uninterested at the moment its not all warburton it’s lack of quality players as well,just seen keifer Moore score 2 goals for Cardiff,he looks decent and a shame we couldn’t get him hope we can get that guy from Charlton to play alongside dykes,but we got to stop leaking goals,we have goals in our team but we concede too many game after game and warburton will find out the hard way and even his job could be at stake in the end as we looked easy to beat last night and even last week we were very vulnerable at times I’m not moaning it’s based on observation and the shape of the team overall weve lost our main man and it’s a huge gap to fill now
