I was left thinking eBygum performs better on our left than right last night, but that's probably coz he was required more defensively.weasel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:19 am I think that was likely the main reason that Byram started at right back rather than Gray so that we could almost be a 3 man defence and give Firpo the freedom to simply pop up anywhere. Byram has much more defensive awareness than Gray, not a knock on Gray just an experience thing.
Noticeable also that the Rutter penalty came from Rutter getting the ball in the left wing area, also Gnonto goal saw him in a left wing area. Seems we had a huge plan to overload our left, possibly to expose Dijksteel's weakness (gave the penalty away last night and got sent off against us at ER and is seen as not as good as Ayling).
We created good chances whereas in all honesty Boro got a lot of luck with their first, the second should have been saved and likely the third one if he tried that 100 times he'd only score it a handful of times.
You think their second should've been saved ? I'll have another look, but i thought it was well struck and seemed to come from nowhere, unexpected angle anorl, pulled and whipped into the not so obvious side, which wrongfooted Mes a bit and he couldn't get a good hand on it. What did you think of Rutters foul for the pen ? I haven't watched any highlights yet, but i thought on second viewing on TV that he bought it superbly, cut across his man on entering the box, then dangled his leg out to get clipped, very clever.
I'm still worried and panic like fck about the space between our lines, the timing of when to push up an extra 5-10yds is bugging me to fck, especially away from home, it seems to leave oooooooodles of space for the oppos to exploit, especially coz we're playing 4-2 and not 4-3-3 or 4-4-2. And i know our wingbacks push on to create a 2-4-3-1 at times, but summerts not reet.