Blackburn v Barnsley goals

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Thanks for posting. Looked a clear sending off I'm afraid. Some shocking goals conceded.

 

Jeff Stelling has gone down in my estimation after that.

He doesn't know the name of our "goalkeeper"
He got M'voto's name wrong.
He can't pronounce Cywka.

The all knowing Jeff Stelling, eh?

 

That 5th goal is atrocious goalkeeping. Diving past the ball and somehow pushing it back to to the other side. Steel's culpable for mistake likes this every game, he has zero competition whatsoever.

 

M'Voto was unlucky as Jordan Rhodes has clearly played for it.

Steele could have done better for 3 of goals.

Golbourne's positional play looked to be shocking.

 

Where are all these goals for which Steele is culpable? Shocker for the 5th, obviously, but to say he's at fault for any of the others is extremely harsh.

 

2nd - moved to far post for deep cross, never attempted to go for it, payer looped header straight back across him.

3rd - no mans land

5th - parried ball into net at near post.

Our goalkeeper position worries me, because clearly Steele could do with competition, but in m opinion, Alnwick is not up o the task. I am also a big believer in that if you have a keeper who is weak on crosses, then this makes the defence nervous.

 

Where's he supposed to position himself for a far post cross? It was a great cross, out of his reach, so he's then got to cover the near post. If the player then performs a perfectly executed header that loops back the other way the 'Keeper has no chance. But as this rarely ever happens, due to it being extremely difficult, you've got to position yourself for the percentages, which Luke did. I wouldn't attach even a tiny percentage of blame to our Keeper for that. Just a very good goal.

 

Poor positioning there from golbourne, pulled apart by two prettying identical passes

 

Jay, what's wrong with following the far post cross and tipping it out for a corner?

Opposing managers will know, only too well, that Steele and BFC defence in general, does not defend deep crosses very well. I'm afraid that is not an opinion, it is a fact.

 

So Steele doesn`t want putting up against the East Stand wall and shooting then, which is the conclusion I came to last night from some who had been to the game plus his regular snipers of course.

Yes he could have done better but then he wouldn`t have been on his own yesterday would he.

 

Clear sending off for me as well. If we try and get it recinded the ban will probably be made longer. M'voto got done, tried to make up ground and if he hadn't clipped Rhodes he would have got his shot away and had a chance to score. I don't know why some think Rhodes went down easily knowing full well he doesn't take free kicks. Rhodes had two options......

1) Stay on his feet, get his shot away and maybe score a goal.
2) Go down softly and take away your chance of scoring as you know you won't be taking the free kick.

Strikers are generally known to be greedy so I can't see Jordan thinking option 2.

 

That is a huge huge risk when you've already got 3 people going for the ball (well there would have been if Wiseman had got his positionining correct) and you're at best hoping to 'tip' the ball. Much safer to hold position and trust that your two defenders will be able to deal with it, especially when they only have to connect with the ball and head it anywhere while the striker has to really concentrate and direct the ball inch perfectly.

 

The way I saw it at the game yesterday was this.

1: Great free kick.
2: Steele could have done better by attacking a ball on the edge of his six yard box but it was very badly defended to begin with so not all his fault.
3: No need to come racing out, end up in no mans land and made it easy to be lobbed.
4: ***** defending and not his fault.
5: Capped off a nightmare day. Awful.

So at fault for two and partially culpable for one. After watching them back I still think the same.

 

i think we will see alnwick v southampton

time to give steele a wake up call?

 

I'd say he should have been positioned better for the 3rd, and the 5th is obviously his fault.

Criticism over the other 3 is unfair.

 

I believe the risk is lower than you reckon......at the end of the day, Steele has his own height plus that of his arms/hands....he should be more commanding in these situations and he ain't, and it costs us goals.

Poor goalkeeping.

 

You speak so matter-of-factly --- are you Manuel Neuer?

I'd say it would have been remarkably risky for him to charge off his line after that cross. Additionally, you'd have slaughtered him if he tried to do that and didn't get there - so he can't really win.

Fine cross, fine header, goal. If we'd had a proper centre back on the pitch, we might have been able to deal with the cross and prevent Rhodes from executing such a good header.

 

Has Steele ever had competition? Ok when he first came against muller since then its been all his, preece was never a competitor for the number 1 shirt so why's it been brought up after a few mistakes that he needs competition?

 

As it happens, he didn't go for ball, never ended up touching ball, Blackburn score!
Stand by my comment that he should have tipped it out for a corner.