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Martinez felt referee Andre Marriner was right to give Dyer his marching orders — but claimed the decision worked against his team.
“I have seen it again and it’s a red card,” Martinez added.
“I don’t think anyone would complain about it, but looking back I would have preferred Swansea to keep 11 players on the pitch.
“Nothing went our way. Usually a sending off would be an advantage but at 2-0 it went against us.
“It allowed Swansea just to drop deep and get bodies behind the ball as you would do.
“We put too many bodies forward and tried to get there too quickly. We got too excited and we became very one- dimensional, which is not our kind of football.”
File it in the ever expanding list of lame duck excuses,somewhere near my favourite “we are being affected by negative dynamics “.
Funnily enough a wise old man situated close to me on Saturday said the very same thing. The red card was the last thing we needed.
Mind you we were that bad on Saturday that they could have gone down to a Bristol Roversesque eight players and we’d have still struggled.
Breaking news
Teams with ten men can win matches against teams with eleven
Those of you who were at the infamous Bristol Rovers game will remember that it was incredibly difficult for us. When players are sent off teams don’t leave holes in the defence, but shore it up. Particularly when they are 2-0 up.
With 11 men they may well have gone looking for more, and if we had managed to score maybe things would have changed. As it was when they went down to 10 men they packed the defence and there was no way through. I’m not saying we didn’t play absolutely dire, but it became a no chance situation.
So, actually, I think Roberto (and old guy in stand) were probably correct.
Talk about defend the indefensible on this thread.
So having a man sent off did Swansea a favour? With that in mind, I don’t know why Brendan Rogers didn’t concoct the whole situation by simply taking Dyer off and not replacing him with a substitute, having to alter his team formation and game plan to protect a 2-0 lead. That would have guaranteed a win for them and no chance of us coming back because at 11 v 11, we’re still in the game but at 10 v 11, we’ve no chance.
At straws clutching.
If you cast your mind back to the Blackburn game a similar thing happened. Eleven against eleven we looked well on top and likely to get a victory. As soon as Dunn got sent off everything changed. They dropped deep , we struggled to break them down and they started hitting us on the break. That’s why we’re a better team away from home where we can hit teams on the break. At home if the opposition pack the defence we don’t have the guile to unlock them.
That’s not spin but it’s just the way it is.
If you cast your mind back to the Blackburn game a similar thing happened. Eleven against eleven we looked well on top and likely to get a victory. As soon as Dunn got sent off everything changed. They dropped deep , we struggled to break them down and they started hitting us on the break. That’s why we’re a better team away from home where we can hit teams on the break. At home if the opposition pack the defence we don’t have the guile to unlock them.That’s not spin but it’s just the way it is.
Spot on Manny but if as a manager you can see teams frustrating his team a good manager comes up with a plan B. Our manager is still basically trying the same tactics 3 years later and guess what, it still doesn’t work :woohoo:
For christs sake swansea were opening our defence up at will. when dyer was on the pitch nobody could handle his pace and running with the ball. it would have been 4 or 5 if he wouldnt have been sent off.
For christs sake swansea were opening our defence up at will. when dyer was on the pitch nobody could handle his pace and running with the ball. it would have been 4 or 5 if he wouldnt have been sent off.Come on LMB we had Swansea on the rack with 11 players, having a man sent off is the best thing that could happened. It changed the game in Swansea’s favour
Only spin being applied here is by the darkside again
What a load of bullshit. If playing with ten men is better, then we should be mid table as we’ve been playing with ten men or less all fucking season.
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