How many set pieces and goals in general will we concede in December?

[Legend_in_blue]

In answer to the question, too many.

 

[Sunbury Fox]

1 hour ago, Corky said:

Spartak Moscow at home.

Yes, that was the game where instead we allowed a 5 foot 6 inch winger to head in a cross unmarked in our 6 yard box. 

[HybridFox]

We're doing an advent calendar 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Well, at least there's two games in Dec where we will not drop any Premier league points.

[Nod.E]

Rodgers post match: "Maybe the structure somehow needs to change."

 

Has the penny finally dropped? 

[Gubbins]

The Liverpool games terrify me tbh. The ferocious press they deploy ripped us to shreds a couple of times over the past two seasons, and that was when our defence was reasonably competent. Based on our present abortion of a defence il be amazed if we can keep them to only 4 goals.

[Dan]

3 hours ago, Gubbins said:

The Liverpool games terrify me tbh. The ferocious press they deploy ripped us to shreds a couple of times over the past two seasons, and that was when our defence was reasonably competent. Based on our present abortion of a defence il be amazed if we can keep them to only 4 goals.

That could genuinely be our heaviest ever PL loss. Defend like this they could hit us for 6/7.

[Guest Danny Clender]

6 hours ago, davieG said:

It must be Puel’s fault

This.

We really need a sensible discussion as to just how much Claude Puel regressed the club, the discussion should last at least 20 years. 

[Le Renard]

If the players are working on it in training and watching videos back, and being told to pick up/block runners runners, then who's fault is it, Rodgers, the players or both?  The zonal marking worked last year and we didn't seem to have a big problem against set pieces, until late in the season, so it can't be the coaching, you don't become a bad coach overnight.  There is a lack of aggression to attack the ball, Evans and Söyüncü normally do this, so what has changed? 

For whatever reason the players aren't listening, and don't want to go that extra mile, there are too many ball watching and waiting for others to sort it out!  Do we have too many "wee little Joe Allen's" in the team, perhaps we lack the characters to grab their colleagues by the neck and get them through difficulties.  Bring back big Waz on the coaching staff, he'll make sure the players are up for it!

[Tom12345]

I am not the expert, of course, but it looks like our defence system is too rigid and often players don’t know who should be going after a ball when it is swung into the box. The confusion is madness when they should be doing this in training day in day out. The players are obviously confused and Rodgers need to uncoach them and start afresh. Too many rules may be. 

[Tom12345]

1 minute ago, Le Renard said:

If the players are working on it in training and watching videos back, and being told to pick up/block runners runners, then who's fault is it, Rodgers, the players or both?  The zonal marking worked last year and we didn't seem to have a big problem against set pieces, until late in the season, so it can't be the coaching, you don't become a bad coach overnight.  There is a lack of aggression to attack the ball, Evans and Söyüncü normally do this, so what has changed? 

For whatever reason the players aren't listening, and don't want to go that extra mile, there are too many ball watching and waiting for others to sort it out!  Do we have too many "wee little Joe Allen's" in the team, perhaps we lack the characters to grab their colleagues by the neck and get them through difficulties.  Bring back big Waz on the coaching staff, he'll make sure the players are up for it!

Maybe they are over coached and they got confused.

 

Coincidentally, despite being slow, you always feel pretty safe when Morgan is in the team. You know him and Evans would head it away. In this regard, Soyuncu has seriously regressed this year. He is not as “free”. Maybe he is still trying to remember rules 1-100.

[phoneticerror]

6 hours ago, Nod.E said:

Rodgers post match: "Maybe the structure somehow needs to change."

 

Has the penny finally dropped? 

I can’t watch his post match interviews anymore. They make me absolutely furious the way he dances around the issues and comes up with nonsensical excuses.

Edited 6 December 2021 by phoneticerror

[Mike Oxlong]

Shit loads. How lucky we are  to have all our games televised this month ! 

[Chrysalis]

I dont know, but I think defending we are relegation quality level, its our goal scoring thats keeping us where we are in the table at the moment, we basically need to score 3 times to win a game now.

 

Lots of attention was drawn to it by sky though, so hopefully this makes fixing it a higher priority now it has mainstream media attention.

[Gazza M]

One thing for sure in my mind is that Brendan will be coaching them again to do it his way until it clicks not change the system of marking at set pieces. I hope I am wrong as it will ultimately cost him his job now Sky and the whole country have their eyes on it. 

[VictorFox]

I think we’ll concede 15-20 from crosses into our box 

[SuperMike]

Ive been watching City since october 1968 and in all that time I have never witnesesd a situation where the opposition have found a weakness and capitalised on it game after game after game. As far as the Premier League goes, this season is already a write-off, simply because we can't defend set pieces. Lets recognise this and start working towards next season (and this years cups) with a view to stamping out the stupidity. Start by dropping Kasper.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Liverpool are truly a terrifying prospect at the moment. They're scoring 4 a game as standard at the moment. They could easily get 6 or 7 against us.

[The boy Linacre]

11 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

It's truly bizarre. Teams that struggle are seen every year, but in our case our attack is pretty good. We scored a very good goal today, quite unlucky not to score at least one more. We might not be Man City levels of attack, but we can play good stuff at times and make good chances.

 

Our defence is atrocious though.

 

Basically this is an artist's rendition of our team right now.

 

 

Didn't you get the picture the wrong way round??  Its at the back we're shite??

[jonny_wright]

Vestergaard must be the absolute pits to not oust Soyuncu out this defence 

[jmono84]

10 hours ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Yes, that was the game where instead we allowed a 5 foot 6 inch winger to head in a cross unmarked in our 6 yard box. 

And the Che Adams goal against us. He ended up making contact with the ball in the 6 yard box. Kasper and the defence have no aggression in that area and it’s hurting us soo much.

[jmono84]

2 hours ago, SuperMike said:

Ive been watching City since october 1968 and in all that time I have never witnesesd a situation where the opposition have found a weakness and capitalised on it game after game after game. As far as the Premier League goes, this season is already a write-off, simply because we can't defend set pieces. Lets recognise this and start working towards next season (and this years cups) with a view to stamping out the stupidity. Start by dropping Kasper.

It’s not just set-pieces, it’s any type of cross that comes into our box

[Sol thewall Bamba]

32 minutes ago, jonny_wright said:

Vestergaard must be the absolute pits to not oust Soyuncu out this defence 

I mean we already know this. We're the self proclaimed "king of the transfer market" though 

[SuperMike]

I'm guessing every single City fans' thought processes are exactly the same as mine:

"Brilliant save....."

or

"Brilliant block....."

Followed, in a matter of seconds by:

 

".......Yeah, brilliant - but pointless, cos we're gonna concede from the resulting corner"

 

And we do.

[st albans fox]

When do we next play Burnley ????