Not a good pattern the last couple of games and you can’t use the we are tired excuse
Glad we won but RU DAD why do you think we are playing like this what is lacking it looked to me early that we would be better offensively but I don’t see it and am frankly worried when we start Big play. Is O’Neill playing for low scores and tied like he did last year?
Dentist, no O'Neil is not playing for low scores. He has stayed with the more offensive oriented scheme that the team exhibited earlier. I'm not exactly sure what the problem is. Killerbees3 is more knowledgeable on the technical aspects. IMO for one, the loss of Swaby necessitating the move of Provenzano to center D has started a domino effect in the middle which has left us less efficient. Further we just don't seem to be playing with pace or as hungry. Our execution is off. The developing chemistry seems to have disappeared. Rarely are we getting crisp on target one touch play & passes. Certainly not more than one in sequence. Don't want to lay it all on Amirah, but once again there were a few times when she had the ball in her feet around the box area & tried to do too much when she had someone open. By the time she realized she couldn't do anything she would attempt the pass but the play was gone. Nneka is tough to handle but really continues to lack soccer sense, also trying to do too much with the ball & missing mates & her touch on passes is a work in progress to say the least. Having said all that, we did play better in the 2nd half & Delaware's keeper made some good saves. As I say bees3 can give a better critique if he saw the game.
I actually thought the freshman Regan Berg was very good when she was in and she is also tall and is much better technically than Nneka but she has not seemed to see much action since
Agree with you 100% especially the free kicks terrible on corner kicks and how many times we are on the attack and then all of a sudden we pass it backwards and one more thing I have noticed is our girls just don’t want to seem to shoot on goal from antything farther than the 18 yard line
Nneka is good when she receives a ball in behind the defense, long, fairly fast, long strides, strikes the ball well, but she struggles on the ball, if you go back and watch on most goals she has a lot of time to correct a bad 1st, 2nd, sometimes a 3rd touch to get a shot....but if she is in a tight space and has to hold possession, its a challenge and usually a turnover, this is why they need to move the ball sooner and combine as opposed to her trying to dribble like Ali and LaPlant can.
I am sure these opportunities are pointed out during film, they are glearing....obviously Mike knows what he is doing, he is one of the top coaches in the Country, the team is ranked #19 and is 6-0-1, they are always organized, very difficult to score on, focus on possession, and playing back to switch, the system just "seems" to sometimes limit offense, perhaps it really doesn't?? But if its designed that way, it works!!! It does result in a lot of OT and but VERY few losses, just less wins. Just seems there's some offense waiting to explode and its there on the field already! We are just having conversations about observations.
I have seen numerous times where she has not finished on break always because other lack of foot skills
Yes they are. From what I've seen of the men, they move the ball very quickly. No playing with it. Very impressive.
We aren't really an outside in team, think about how many goals have been scored from creating width, a cross and a shot. We seem to be most dangerous getting in behind, through balls on diagonal runs, in behind, near and far post but from from the corners of the box, to the weak side, and quite a bit this year from just inside mid field, with a ball in behind the defense. Issue is, we miss a lot of those dangerous runs. We have a lot of speed up top and a fair share of technical ability and I think we do create a lot of space, especially LaPlant finding openings off the ball, there's been spaces big enough to drive a tractor trailer through that we miss, where there's so much time and space and the defense doesn't even know we got in behind. In the 4-3-3 Amirah is the target player, its designed for her to get the most touches and she does, what she does with the ball when she gets it is very important, how quickly the right decision is made, how often do you see her make a diagonal run and then connect with a player coming in behind the defense? With the speed up top, if they just move the ball faster, and constantly move off the ball there will be tons of space and connection that will be very difficult to defend, if you look back at a couple of Nnekas goals and LaPlants goal against Tennessee there's been some dynamic runs and when we find that run early we are in.......
