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Topic: The plan to beat Fulham. (Read 19356 times)
SoccerHQ
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The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 10:58:53 PM »
What is it then?
We know this team can go toe to toe in a physical scrap as we've shown many times this season and tbh even though it was tense due to the scoreline I thought we were very comfortable over the two games.
Boro are so pedestrain and slow at knocking the ball across the pitch, it played nicely into our hands.
Fulham is completely different prospect. They have imo the best central midfield axis in the league in McDonald-Johansen-Cairney and a good striker now in Mitrovic upfront so we're going to have to find ways to disrupt that. I do think their defence can be got at though as SHA showed and to a lesser extent Derby first leg.
Get the feeling SB will stick with an unchanged team unless AEM is fit. Is that our best team to beat that specific opponent? I feel we will need more energy and composure in central midfield as we can't be just hacking the ball away from our box all the time. We will struggle to get it back as much as we did in the last 180 minutes.
Might not have seemed like it but to me the two legged semi was the easy part. This is very much the hard part given what is at stake and the opposition.
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:14:52 PM »
Set pieces and keep it tight, no fucking about.
1-0, job done.
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:15:22 PM »
Score more than them.
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:42:44 PM »
We have to keep the ball, be disciplined and attack them. They have too many weapons and if we are sloppy and let them play they'll do us
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:47:24 PM »
Let them worry about the plan to beat us. This isn't Craven Cottage, our star players are all available.
Let them enjoy their big day out while we enjoy promotion.
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nodge
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:49:08 PM »
Do what we did on 21/10/2017
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:52:06 PM »
Quote from: nodge on May 15, 2018, 11:49:08 PM
Do what we did on 21/10/2017
Bit similar to us going there without Adomah and Jack.
Just looked at their team that day and Cairney only came on as 60th minute sub (he missed start of season injured) and they obviously didn't have Mitrovic that day. Front three was Fonte-Kamara-Ayite so lot different to what they're putting out now. Sessegnon also played as a left back that day.
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:53:27 PM »
They're not that special away from their little stadium. Even Blues beat them scoring 3 goals. We've beaten them at home already. Experience at Wembley will be key - they have none.
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:54:46 PM »
Look so shot shy in the run up to the game that they think it will be a piece of piss.
Then muller them with Total Football, Hourihane scoring two and Hogan nabbing a hat-trick.
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 15, 2018, 11:58:38 PM »
Set Hutton on Sessegnon who's even more dangerous than Traore. He's a big part of Fulham's attack and have to keep Mitrovic quiet. That's John Terry's task.
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Des Little
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 16, 2018, 12:01:31 AM »
Tell the Tarquins that the game is on the Sunday and clappers are banned.
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 16, 2018, 12:06:52 AM »
Score first
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Jean Quereue-Quereue
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 16, 2018, 12:07:20 AM »
From what I remember from the October game Fulham were like Jaap Stam's Reading - lots of tippy-tappy passing round the back in their own half with no urgency, even when they were a goal down. They're a different beast now though.
They looked vulnerable at the back against Derby so if Snod and Albert are in top form and Lewis/Kodj can convert their crosses then we have a chance. Hopefully we'll give it a go for them to be in forward enough positions to do so.
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Dave
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 16, 2018, 12:10:09 AM »
How tall is their left-back?
Unless he's significantly shorter than Middlesbrough's, part of the plan should be for Johnstone to not send every single goal-kick and clearance straight to him to gift possession like tonight*.
*my only real complaint about a thoroughly comfortable performance all round.
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Re: The plan to beat Fulham.
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May 16, 2018, 12:13:13 AM »
Play two up front. Grabban and Kodja. Let them worry about us. We can’t sit and hold in a cup final.
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