England Friendly - Nov 12th Wembley

Duffy made a poor attempt for the ball, if you can't see that then fair enough

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Four-Four-Two wrote: Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Four-Four-Two wrote: Left foot wrote: Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Claret Murph wrote: Not going to read back over 400 posts but still depressed after last night .  We looked fine until the goal then we were a beaten side . I’m still angry about that first goal. You would normally back Duffy in those situations. We were playing well up to this point. It was the type of goal we should be scoring. I've made the mistake of watching the first goal again. It was such a soft goal to conseed. Duffy completely culpable. Overall we deserved nothing from the game but Duffy's form is costing us. culpable how? he was beaten in the air by one of the few players around who is better in the air than he is. this happens, duffy wins 95%+ of the headers hes involved in, but you cannot win 100% particularly against a guy like maguire who is exceptionally dominant What! Look at it again. That was Duffy fault all day long. He was in the right position, goal side and just in front of Mcguire. He could see the cross coming and knew where maguire was. A 6ft 4 defender needs to win that 100% of the time.  maguire is also a 6foot4 defender, so both cannot win it 100% of the time??? But Duffy has the huge advantage in that he doesn’t need to control his header. He just needs to get something on it. Given his position was perfect he needs to win that.  He completely misses the header.

Jimbhoy wrote: It seems to me that Kenny is getting a pass for making bad decisions that any other of our recent managers would be getting hammered for. To go into a game away from home against a decent side like England with a decimated team without any holding midfielders on the pitch is insane. Molumby should have been the first name on the team sheet last night and ideally we 'd have had Cullen in the squad to play with 2 holding midfielders. We didn't even lay a glove on their midfield which you won't when you select a midfield with nobody who can tackle or win the ball back. England were constantly finding space between our midfield and defence for this simple reason. O'Neill got hammered for playing Hendrick and Brady against Denmark at home from half time when we were chasing 2 goals to qualify for a world cup. I just don't get why we have fans saying Kenny should get 2 or 3 tournaments to turn our fortunes around. He has no track record in achieving this with any other teams. I could understand it if Michael O'Neill was our manager as he has done it with the North.

It seems to me that Kenny is getting a pass for making bad decisions that any other of our recent managers would be getting hammered for. To go into a game away from home against a decent side like England with a decimated team without any holding midfielders on the pitch is insane. Molumby should have been the first name on the team sheet last night and ideally we 'd have had Cullen in the squad to play with 2 holding midfielders. We didn't even lay a glove on their midfield which you won't when you select a midfield with nobody who can tackle or win the ball back. England were constantly finding space between our midfield and defence for this simple reason. O'Neill got hammered for playing Hendrick and Brady against Denmark at home from half time when we were chasing 2 goals to qualify for a world cup. I just don't get why we have fans saying Kenny should get 2 or 3 tournaments to turn our fortunes around. He has no track record in achieving this with any other teams. I could understand it if Michael O'Neill was our manager as he has done it with the North. 

I don't think it was terrible defending by Duffy, but it's also hard to imagine that goal happening a few months ago when he wasn't horribly out of form.

It was poor defending from Duffy, his attempt to head it away was poor, its like he closed his eyes and just misses the ball altogether.

Four-Four-Two wrote: Left foot wrote: Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Claret Murph wrote: Not going to read back over 400 posts but still depressed after last night .  We looked fine until the goal then we were a beaten side . I’m still angry about that first goal. You would normally back Duffy in those situations. We were playing well up to this point. It was the type of goal we should be scoring. I've made the mistake of watching the first goal again. It was such a soft goal to conseed. Duffy completely culpable. Overall we deserved nothing from the game but Duffy's form is costing us. culpable how? he was beaten in the air by one of the few players around who is better in the air than he is. this happens, duffy wins 95%+ of the headers hes involved in, but you cannot win 100% particularly against a guy like maguire who is exceptionally dominant

Left foot wrote: Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Claret Murph wrote: Not going to read back over 400 posts but still depressed after last night .  We looked fine until the goal then we were a beaten side . I’m still angry about that first goal. You would normally back Duffy in those situations. We were playing well up to this point. It was the type of goal we should be scoring. I've made the mistake of watching the first goal again. It was such a soft goal to conseed. Duffy completely culpable. Overall we deserved nothing from the game but Duffy's form is costing us.