by redandwhite1874 » Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:39 pm
A hard game to sum up, there was so many positives and negatives all mixed into one. We set up in a weird formation with no obvious left midfielder, with Imrie clearly playing right midfield. Seaborne going off, meant MC had a decision to make and I think he got it wrong. Sean is not ready and I think he knew that, hence why he decided to go to a back 5. Donati and Sarris played well and I think we should have just kept the back 4 with Daz in the holding position. We rode our luck sometimes in the first half but had some decent counter attacks, worked really hard, but we did seem to give them too much respect and sat off them more than they deserved.
Second half and we scored a great goal and it was always going to be a job seeing it out. We lost the first with Daz hobbling about after a challenge and he had been covering with Gills out on the left; the second looked like a penalty from the opposite end of the ground, but TV proves no contact and the player saying he slipped - well he went down like a player tackeld to the ground. Its a dive and perhaps clubs are coaching players to play that defence early if caught out by the cameras. The third came at the death as we pushed up a wee bit.
Donati, Sarris, Gregg, Daz and Ali were best; and whilst no real failures Lyon is far from comfortable ( even when he has the ball in his more natural area) and Want has a bit of filling out and experience to gain before he can be expected to match up to Hearts away.
The 5 keeprs, 4 strikers but no full backs strategy looks increasing a victory of hope over substance; we have the money so lets get a full back. Whilst we chased the rainbow that was 22 we failed to cover the core gaps.
We were not out of place today, we could do with being a wee bit more sure of ourselves and we can defo give them problems at home.