I don’t agree. To me the tactics we deployed - particularly in the first half - were very obvious and very specific. We tried draw Exeter into pressing and we moved the ball laterally across the defence and midfield in the hope we drew that press and could then quickly switch flanks or play a quick one two to find ourselves not attacking a team with 11 men behind the ball. The long balls over the top, whether it be aimed centrally or out towards the corners kept Exeter guessing - they either get up close to Dembele, or risk CJ and Joseph running in behind them. Rhodes didn’t have a great game but his intelligence was on show in how he moves around the pitch, sometimes dropping much deeper, sometimes forcing the press, sometimes even drifting out wide and playing knock ons to the overlapping/underlapping wide players.
The final balls weren’t great yesterday but on another day CJ, Dembele and Joseph have several 1 on 1’s. The crossing from out wide was lacking too - when the ball needs fizzing across the goal we floated it in and when it needed floating to the back post we hammered it across the box.
We scored 2. It could have been more. Their manager even says we caused them a lot of problems.