Klose in, no Martin, no Franke, 2 central midfielders in front, actually

marking players from crosses and winning headers.

our defending was not that bad earlier in the season in the sense that teams were not opening us up constantly. They were just scoring from virtually every attack they had and normally from crosses/high balls where we didn't prevent the cross from coming in (or put enough pressure on the crosser) or we didn't win the defensive header or second ball. Generally we were bossing games in terms of possession and normally restricting the opposition to a handful of opportunities.

Posted By: Jim on September 27th 2017 at 10:00:18

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I wonder if opponents (NCFC) - paulg, Sep 27, 09:45:40
- They're probably amazed that we do it with a goalkeeper who'll never be a goalkeeper. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Sep 27, 11:10:11
  - maybe the hole sealed up? (NCFC) - Tombs, Sep 27, 11:19:50
    - The evidence to support that position is unfortunately not strong. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Sep 27, 11:34:02
      - as time passes the situation is that the hole is indeed increasing (NCFC) - Tombs, Sep 27, 11:37:58
- I wonder what has changed! How has he fixed it? We've gone from comedy defending to (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 27, 09:57:27
  - 9 hours 33 minutes since we conceded with Klose (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 27, 10:21:47
    - No klose no klean sheet (n/m) (NCFC) - camcan, Sep 27, 11:20:08
    - Not sure we can say Klose vs franke is the single reason though? The rest are (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 27, 10:24:05
  - Klose in, no Martin, no Franke, 2 central midfielders in front, actually (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 27, 10:00:18
    - the bad defending was actually 3 games (NCFC) - mr carra, Sep 27, 10:09:19
      - That's right. There was laughable over-reaction on here - as I kept saying, we'd defended (NCFC) - Higher Wrather, Sep 27, 10:24:20
        
        I disagree on Klose/Franke but another factor is that these things tend to snowball and (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 27, 10:38:25
        
        On Klose, he plays as if it's his favourite hobby. He's good, but he's not a battler. (NCFC) - Higher Wrather, Sep 27, 10:50:16
        
        In the Boro and Blades games we scored early, then defended like demons for the rest of (NCFC) - Higher Wrather, Sep 27, 10:45:54
        
        yes - I still see this as stage 1, stage 2 is to build back up our possession so that (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 27, 10:48:03
        
        Yep. As he keeps saying: "defending is the basement (sic)" (NCFC) - Yellalee, Sep 27, 11:05:59
      - One thing I noticed in the text commentary last night (NCFC) - camcan, Sep 27, 10:18:25
        
        yes - one error was undoing us too easily. A few cynical fouls as well where they (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 27, 10:39:32
  - It almost feels like we might even be able to defend with martin. Or is that going too far (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 27, 09:58:05
    - ffs (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 27, 10:23:23
    - what did you put in your coffee this morning? (NCFC) - paulg, Sep 27, 10:01:42
      - Hanley I'd imagine (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 27, 10:10:22
    - That should not be risked. (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 27, 10:00:40

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