Silvio Dante Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 First off, LJ has not got it wrong much this season and is still hugely in credit. However, today showed that in this league you cannot carry one player who's not fit, let alone three. And when your main tactic in the first half was to hit long balls to a not fully fit player, then it's asking for trouble - particularly when you have a not fully fit left side and are outnumbered in midfield. Bad day at the office no doubt. If that side was fully fit we win, but playing three unfit players killed us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted November 21, 2017 Admin Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 Who was the third? Clearly Djuric and Bryan were struggling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 Just now, phantom said: Who was the third? Clearly Djuric and Bryan were struggling Patterson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiled Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 It's been widely reported that Djuric is nursing an injury, so why start with him? He was obviously not going to make it through 90 minutes and his best games have been as an impact sub. If we had taken the lead them we might not have needed him. Seems crazy to risk aggrevating that injury. I know it's all hindsight but it felt like a strange decision even before kickoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dullmoan Tone Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 To be fair Djuric won nearly everything in the air - the problem seemed to be he had little support and the balls were at difficult angles to do anything with them - I don't think his fitness was the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meh Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 17 minutes ago, Esmond Million's Bung said: Patterson. Last 5 games he has been absent. I know his assist record this season has been good but time for a few games out and let’s see what Leko and Eliasson can offer after a run of 2/3 games. You can’t keep playing somebody because they had a previous purple patch if they are clearly out of it to the extent they are offering virtually nowt !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 9 minutes ago, Neo said: Last 5 games he has been absent. I know his assist record this season has been good but time for a few games out and let’s see what Leko and Eliasson can offer after a run of 2/3 games. You can’t keep playing somebody because they had a previous purple patch if they are clearly out of it to the extent they are offering virtually nowt !! Exactly he obviously wasn't fit and it showed that in spades, he should not have been selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_eastender Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 Clearly neither Bryan or Paterson were fully fit, making us totally ineffective down the lhs. As others have said neither should have been selected to start - major mistake by LJ, which is compounded if Bryan in particular is now not fully fit for Hull. Djuric I'm not so sure about, he did win plenty of knock-downs but neither Reid or anyone else got close enough to him to benefit. Without carrying Joe & Pato, the game plan of starting Djuric might have worked. As it was Djuric would have been the player you wanted on, when we actually had crosses coming into the box via Eliasson, instead they were wasted with just Reid up front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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