Stop Norburn - Stop Blackpool

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Richo

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It’s not difficult to see that having been at all the league games the opposition have worked out that if they stop Norburn we become ineffective.

The first 45 minutes against Burton he ran the game. They got closer to him in the second half and we were significantly less effective.

The three subsequent games they have all got closer to Norburn and just let Marv have the ball.

As a consequence Marv has no midfielders showing for the ball in space so passes to Casey or Husband.

We lack width (wingers) or runners.

Goals will open up games but currently I worry where they are coming from.

It’s all too safe.
 
Norburn is totally one-footed, and so plays everything with his right foot. This means when he has the ball facing the Blackpool goal he always
either plays the ball back or turns in an anti-clockwise direction to face forwards to play out with his right foot, if he turns clockwise he cannot play
a forward ball with his left foot any distance. It is really easy to play against, now contrast to the Stewart and Dougall partnership, both could play with either foot. But what they did effectively was one of them received the ball from the defence facing the Blackpool goal and a simple short pass to the other who would be facing forwards to the opposition goal, so they could play a simple pass forward. Norburn has the option of only going back to the defence.

What Norburn was doing yesterday was going deeper and deeper until he was effectively playing alongside big Marv in defence so he could get on the ball facing forwards, then receiving the ball and then playing a long ball, which most of the time went to the opposition.
 
We need one of the other two midfielders deeper, next to Norburn to give him another outlet, and to free the third to play in a 10 role. At the moment the two other midfielders are playing so wide that there’s nobody near Norburn nor anywhere near the forwards
 
Danny Ocean said:
Norburn is totally one-footed, and so plays everything with his right foot. This means when he has the ball facing the Blackpool goal he always
either plays the ball back or turns in an anti-clockwise direction to face forwards to play out with his right foot, if he turns clockwise he cannot play
a forward ball with his left foot any distance. It is really easy to play against, now contrast to the Stewart and Dougall partnership, both could play with either foot. But what they did effectively was one of them received the ball from the defence facing the Blackpool goal and a simple short pass to the other who would be facing forwards to the opposition goal, so they could play a simple pass forward. Norburn has the option of only going back to the defence.

What Norburn was doing yesterday was going deeper and deeper until he was effectively playing alongside big Marv in defence so he could get on the ball facing forwards, then receiving the ball and then playing a long ball, which most of the time went to the opposition.
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That’s why he never played higher up the pyramid.
 
O/P is right and this is where you expect the coach to change the way we play, keep the opposition guessing. We are so predictable. It’s so obvious that teams are happy to let Marv have the ball, so he gives it away or we hoof it long.

This is down to Critch, no way will the players want this formation.
 
bfc1993 said:
We need one of the other two midfielders deeper, next to Norburn to give him another outlet, and to free the third to play in a 10 role. At the moment the two other midfielders are playing so wide that there’s nobody near Norburn nor anywhere near the forwards
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That’s what happens in 3-5-2, so if you ask the midfield players to drop it’s not 3-5-2.

Critch is tactically inept, that’s the problem.
 
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