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    Defending Set Pieces

    I am generally interested to see how we cope with it this season. We have been heavily linked with players who are under 6 foot. If Sahin comes in and pressuming he starts, our midfield 3 and the 2 attacking players (with the exception of Gerrard presuming he takes Downing's position) will be full of short arses.

    Please don't come at me with the Barca jibe. I hear that. They cope with it well in Spain. It's just that set pieces play a massive part in English football and I do wonder whether we will struggle in that department.
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    #2
    I guess we'll know more once we've played Stoke on a Tuesday evening.

    When raining, obv.

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      #3
      potential problem with the height I guess, does BR play a man or zonal marking system?

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        #4
        Originally posted by rcasemore View Post
        potential problem with the height I guess, does BR play a man or zonal marking system?
        I imagine zonal marking mate.

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          #5
          Yup, it's zonal. Or at least, going from our early games.

          Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Enrique, Gerrard ... Henderson if he plays. Lucas at a push, Downing to make up numbers.

          We do lack a bit of tenacity in the air.

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            #6
            Originally posted by marcus50bucks View Post
            I am generally interested to see how we cope with it this season. We have been heavily linked with players who are under 6 foot. If Sahin comes in and pressuming he starts, our midfield 3 and the 2 attacking players (with the exception of Gerrard presuming he takes Downing's position) will be full of short arses.

            Please don't come at me with the Barca jibe. I hear that. They cope with it well in Spain. It's just that set pieces play a massive part in English football and I do wonder whether we will struggle in that department.
            How were Swansea in terms of height?

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              #7
              Originally posted by acdmackay View Post
              How were Swansea in terms of height?
              Probably the smallest side in the Premier League I think.

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                #8
                I'd hazard a guess that we might have a higher FK:concede ratio due to the size aspect, but since Plan A is 'don't give away the ball in the first place' we should see a significant drop in free kicks conceded.

                The the end result may be less or a similar level of goals conceded from them - but I don't think we'll see more.

                It'll probably get picked up on though and become the new zonal marking stick to beat us with but I don't think that means the overall system would be failing.
                Hello mert.

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                  #9
                  I'm in favour.
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                  Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



                  May the Lord bless this post.

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                    #10
                    If we have the ball 80% of the time, the opponent aren't going to get many corners are they?

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