They did what any team that has some success against us does but lacked the quality to

actually really take advantage of our errors and they couldn;t keep it up for 90 minutes.

Karanka set them up well. the key to causing us problems is to pack the midfield, go man for man on Todd and Emi, put Skipp under pressure when he receives the ball from the defence and also press our defenders when they are p**sing about with it. They did that well and, aided by the bumpy pitch, got as much joy in that first half as anyone has really against us. But they didn;t really work Krul as much as they should have from the situations they got in.

In the second half, we took a few less risks and cut out the errors but they also couldn;t keep the pace of the pressing up and started to drop back a bit. I thonk we understimate how hard teams have to work to press us like that and not many (if any) can do it for 90 minutes. Barnsley probably the ones who have done it best recently.

Posted By: Jim on February 24th 2021 at 10:05:57

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