Tactics yesterday

Given both our goals in the second half were from crosses, it clearly worked right?

Don't see the problem with crossing?

I'm tired of these armchair snobs who think that crossing and long balls aren't valid tactics

Spot on, OP. It is worrying for me as well. We creating nothing from our midfield, our passes and crosses are not accurate. We have no one in the box apart from our CF who has to deal with 3 defenders at a time. By his first chance he must be 100% clinical. Who is?

What is that formation that we are play in? Is it 4-3-3, is it 4-1-4-1 or what is it?

Did we not work a passing movement that saw a Giroud shot saved, Oxlade-Chamberlain had a decent chance in the first half as a result of a passing move.

Really though it doesn't matter how you score you don't get extra points for keeping the ball on the floor. We were accused of only being able to score the perfect goal now that we have that extra dimension people criticize, can't really win.

Did we not work a passing movement that saw a Giroud shot saved, Oxlade-Chamberlain had a decent chance in the first half as a result of a passing move.

The Ox had a long rage shot. That was our little chance to score in the first half. That was all. Are you blind?

I am glad that we can alter our game and NOT set up camp outside the box and pepper the 18 yard line with ball. What i am not so happy about is the amount of crosses that we seemed to waste; i.e our crossing was very poor.

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comment by Rusky (U15847)
posted 6 hours, 43 minutes ago
Don't see the problem with crossing?

I'm tired of these armchair snobs who think that crossing and long balls aren't valid tactics
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Fun fact: A couple of seasons ago someone worked out the percentage of all crosses that result in goals throughout the league. It was 1.6%