Gower

[The General]

Quote[/b] (Beefy @ April 12 2005,11:44)]

Quote[/b] (Firestorm @ April 12 2005,09:13)]Personally I felt that we failed to adapt to their 352 well enough.
Freddy and Wayne were not able to lose a marker as there was one spare all the time.
Maher and Benno had little time in the middle due to the extra man
Gower was being pushed back by Carlos Edwards all the time whilst Petts did not manage to Exploit the space behind the other wing back

Agreed. Wrexham's five in midfield was the difference between the sides.

So far have watched 30 minutes and me and the old bloke said the exact same thing at the exact same time. They won the midfield battle and thus won the game. Gower had an OK first 20 minutes but as soon as he and Petts swapped he had a stinker ...

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Hong Kong Blue @ April 12 2005,12:47)]I'd agree with most of that tactical analysis but, but I still maintain that our problems stemmed from:

(1) the inability of our left-back to cope with the right wing back, who was almost playing as a winger anyway. If Wilson had been able to deal with Edwards this would have freed up Pettefer to even up the battle in central midfield. As I've said numerous times a lot of our success this season has been down to Pettefer adding the extra body in the middle of the park - for once it was the opposition who outnumbered us there; and

(2) Gower having a mare - if Gower had been playing well Carlos Edwards wouldn't have been able to be so attacking and Petts wouldn't have had to be switched to do a job on him. Its the old adage of attack is the best form of defence. For most of the season we've been playing on our terms, on Sunday Wrexham were dictating our shape which disrupted us.

*falls over in shock, since he agrees 100% with Cousin Weir's analysis for a change*

Nurse!  Time to up my medication...Weir's talking sense!!

 

[Beefy]

I think some of you are seriously over-rating Carlos Edwards' performance. Yeah, he had the ball a fair bit but watch the game again. He barely put in one decent cross all match. He certainly wasn't anything like as good as Bullock was for Blackpool last season.

 

[The General]

Quote[/b] (Beefy @ April 12 2005,18:02)]I think some of you are seriously over-rating Carlos Edwards' performance. Yeah, he had the ball a fair bit but watch the game again. He barely put in one decent cross all match. He certainly wasn't anything like as good as Bullock was for Blackpool last season.

Watched some more and Gower is getting a heck of alot of abuse where; although he didn't do much, he didn't do an overly lot wrong ...