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Delort was playing french 2nd tier football which is probably the equivalent to the conference here so it must be quite a shock to find himself lobbed straight in the deep in one of the most competitive leagues in the world.So surely a partner like Riera or Waghorn would make his introduction easier instead of this insistence on isolating him and the more he struggles the more his confidence gets eroded.As previously stated the teams that walked this league last season had the 2 up top as do most the teams in this league so I am baffled as to why our manager so stubbornly sticks with 1.
I think Kiernon isn’t ready or, just not good enough he was definitely to blame for the first. He had one man to pick up in the box, nobody in front or behind him to look after and ball watching and he gave him 2-3 yards to tap home Ipswich’s first.
The second goal you can’t blame him but, he slide in and totally missed the ball. Not only that his distribution from the back is pretty poor. The straight pass to their player on the 1/2 way line was school boy stuff.
I felt sorry for Delort running the line on his own. You can clearly see the lad has talent but as a lone striker ? he ain’t going to get us the goals unless he has either, a ball player at the back of him who can push the ball through to feet or a 2nd striker. He had a total of 8 minutes in with Riera at his side before Waghorn came on in his place now you can say “But Waghorn got us our goal !” but the pressure came from 2 up front and midfielders having to drop back created the pressure. To give Delort 8 minutes with a strike partner was wrong, and please no he looked tired he’s 22 for god’s sake “!.
Asking Boyce to push up should be a thing of the past, why Travernier doesn’t figure in his plans is beyond me and the same goes for Barnett.
Mick McCarthy hit the nail on the head when he said he was shocked that we decided to change from 3-5-2 to 4-3-3 . He said it suited Ipswich. It took us to go 2 down before Rolser realised this.
Who’s to blame ? players ? Rosler ? well at this moment in time it’s the manager for me with the poor player choice and and even worse tatics.
I’m in no doubt that we easily have the strongest squad by a country mile but the difference between us and some of the promotion contending teams is that they know their strongest 11, we never will.This one up front malarky has ruined many players at Wigan over the years, surely Rosler can see now we need to play two up front.He played twoup front against Birmingham with Riera and MaManaman and we won 4-0.
For some reason tonight he reverted back to one up front and we were shite, probably worse than anything under Coyle for 80mins.
Once he put an extra striker on we started to look something like, and could have actually won it in the end with the chances we created. It would have been undeserved admittedly, but we could have snatched it.
Vier, vier, zwei as they say in Germany!!!
Heard some wag shout this at the game last night – made me chuckle.
There has been a lot said about the team being the ‘strongest on paper’, ‘best in this division’ etc and the managers failure to realise a plan A (or B ). However, I think that the problem could be in his man management technique.
We do have a lot of talented players at our disposal and there have been those on here who have offered insightful options for who and how we play those players, but, is Rosler the man to make those tough team selections? Is he rotating the squad because he fears some of the player reactions (trying to be friends instead of a boss)? To be honest I am surprised Mr Whelan has not been into the dressing room to have a “quiet word” with his playing staff as there would be no love lost there and they would know exactly where they stood.
Yes we were outplayed last night, bullied and sometimes tactically inept in parts but I tend to agree with those who put the responsibility on Rosler – there were times when I actually questioned whether the players had trained together (especially when Malloney and Delort went to kick the same ball, and no it was not just a language barrier).
Rosler needs to have a sign printed for the training ground “No More Mr Nice Guy”
Once he put an extra striker on we started to look something like, and could have actually won it in the end with the chances we created. It would have been undeserved admittedly, but we could have snatched it.Why go 4-5-1 ? for the first I can ever remember I can say we have toooo many forwards. If you count MacManaman we’ve 6 , but, Rosler likes the lone striker. No wonder Mick McCarthy scratched his head.
God help us when McCann and Watson come back , I fear it will be rock paper scissors.Very poor last night for eighty mins, looked like a team of strangers, ok i know some players are and on last nights performance don’t look good enough to me. Need to be playing two up front at home, as someone rightly said one up front hasn’t worked for the last three seasons. Riera was just starting to get going so why put him on the bench for some nobody from the french second division. we played so well against birmingham and for me we should have started with the same team for the last couple of games, if it aint broke dont fix it. It needs sorting quickly or its going to be a long season.
There has been a lot said about the team being the ‘strongest on paper’, ‘best in this division’ etc and the managers failure to realise a plan A (or B ). However, I think that the problem could be in his man management technique.We do have a lot of talented players at our disposal and there have been those on here who have offered insightful options for who and how we play those players, but, is Rosler the man to make those tough team selections? Is he rotating the squad because he fears some of the player reactions (trying to be friends instead of a boss)? To be honest I am surprised Mr Whelan has not been into the dressing room to have a “quiet word” with his playing staff as there would be no love lost there and they would know exactly where they stood.
Yes we were outplayed last night, bullied and sometimes tactically inept in parts but I tend to agree with those who put the responsibility on Rosler – there were times when I actually questioned whether the players had trained together (especially when Malloney and Delort went to kick the same ball, and no it was not just a language barrier).
Rosler needs to have a sign printed for the training ground “No More Mr Nice Guy”
I thought that until I saw this….
Game Statistics
Goal Attempts….. Wigan 20 Ipswich 8
On Target……….Wigan 3, Ipswich 5
Corners…………Wigan 13,Ipswich 3
Offside…………Wigan 1, Ipswich 1
Fouls…………..Wigan 14,Ipswich 9
Yellow cards…….Wigan 0, Ipswich 2
Red cards……….Wigan 0, Ipswich 0
Possession………Wigan 62%, Ipswich 38%
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From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
We had 62% possession and lost.
20 goal attempts…3 on target.
13 corners…no goal from corners.
I might get a banner made up for the next home game just in case he hasn’t learned his lesson after that debacle last night.
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“It’s not the modern way”
“No one plays 2 up front anymore…”
In this division we need goals. By the bag full.
Tactics can change 100 times over, the basics don’t….get the ball in the friggin net….
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.We had 62% possession and lost.
20 goal attempts…3 on target.
13 corners…no goal from corners.
The most relevant statistic is the one that isn’t in our favour. If you don’t hit the target you’re not going to score. There I’ve said it. Aren’t I the clever one!
Rosler needs to have a sign printed for the training ground “No More Mr Nice Guy”How do you know he’s Mr Nice Guy. I’ve heard from a very creditable source (aren’t they all) that he’s not all that nice!
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