My thoughts from Rotherham Away
Possession with purpose should be the lesson of yesterday. The game reminded me a hell of a lot of Bolton and Cardiff away last season. The Cardiff match in particular.
First half, lots of nice passing, but we never really looked like scoring. When we’re out of ideas we seem to rely on two ways of getting a goal: shots from outside the area, and a Flint goal from a corner. This summed up our first half. Reid and Freeman taking shots, all
That possession though will come handy in games where we are in the lead. It will likely mean us winning and frustrating the opposition if they have to chase the game. As for the shooting, int he Villa game prematch warm up the players line up, pass the ball to a coach, and run towards goal (from 25 yrds out) the coach passes back and the player takes a shot from 15 yards. The starting 11 all lined up and did this, only 1 player (Reid) scored, 4 had the ball saved, the other 6 all we