So why did we keep the ball at head height! It was plain to see early on they were good in the air and very physical in their play. It reminded me of rugby union not Football.
Thats why our fortunes turned a little when Cosgrove came on' if your gonna play the long high ball game against a quality centre back at least play a big physical striker to try to compete' Cole is as weak as water and surely can't start on tuesday.
We Made him look the player he isn’t. Most headers unchallenged and no- one actually ran at him at pace.
Pines only played 4 games and we only conceded one twice. What is FAR more concerning is that despite only playing 19 league games out of 47 so far we conceded way more than half of our games with Earl at the back. With him in defence we concede a goal every 48 minutes, without him it's one every 79. Over the course of a 46 game season that's the difference between conceding 52 goals and conceding 86 goals