bluej wrote:mr_nool wrote:The Man In Blue wrote:Colin the King wrote:I really do believe in playing a possession orientated game and passing the ball to death until eventually the opposition tires and loses concentration- Arsenal do this and regularly score 4 or 5 at home. It's much easier for a defensive unit like Fulham to deal with us in our current state, in particular for Hangeland yesterday. Those long balls into the box were food and drink to him. Where they might have struggled was with us knocking the ball around them, inviting them onto the ball and exploiting the spaces in behind as opposed to the direct approach we took.
agree with most of yr post mate, especially about the 4-3-3. but i still think my earlier point stands - Hangeland and co were breached twice, and Schwarzer also had to make two awesome saves to keep out Bridge and de Jong. if the defence had not gone to sleep after we got the second, we would be talking about a comfortable 2-0 win.
You seem to forget Zamora fluffing it from 1.5 yards and a bunch of other good Fulham chances. Or do only Citys close calls count when playing the "what if"-game?
Again though, that's the defence - not a lack of creativity.
Somebody else (I think it was CtK) pointed out that if you play possesion football and try to find spaces (=creativity), the other team won't have the chance to become dangerous themselves. But if we constantly lose possesion cos we can't figure out how to get through their wall, they can break and get chances of their own.