Originally Posted by
jloome
Prior to the Philly game, Dunfield alluded to it being difficult to undo the habits Bob had ingrained. They then went out and looked like a different team.
But then yesterday, they just reverted to the same shit again, trying to constantly play from deep when being pressed, putting too much space between the lines.
The Italians were really the problem. They just don't want to play directly, quickly. They constantly held on and dribbled into trouble, constantly tried to take on more than one person.
My cynical side says they're both trying to showboat to put together enough highlight reels to get out of here. They both had excellent work rates, but I've never seen so many bad decisions from two players of such supposed quality.
Insigne's flick on to Kerr for the assist was about all he offered, all night. Three free kicks from the edge of the box and he can't even put ONE on frame?
They were horrendous. Osorio, who has been a ghost this year, was twice the player of either of them.
Bradley's second half was equally horrendous.
Basically, we were let down yesterday by the most veteran, allegedly senior members of the team. They stopped playing team football again and started trying to force their brilliance, and we fell apart as a result.
I think when they scored off the open header, the two of them just decided individually they were each going to get the game winner, at which point things like finding open teammates and keeping shape got tossed out the window.
WE were disciplined in the first half, but reverting to Bob ball, with everything an overlap, everything moving slow,.,.... GAAAHHHHHH!
Sorry, I can't take much more of this season of stupidity.
Coello was sort of anonymous in this one, too.