AmericanRam Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Our crosses today overall were pretty bad imo asides from Johnny's. No one got on the end of them, and no threat really at all came out of them. Granted, JR's cross to Martin was great. Anyone feel we need vast improvement in these? Or our style of play overrides our bad crosses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daaave Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Didn't think there was anything wrong with our crosses tonight, if anything I think we should've put a few more in as we showed a tendency to get over elaborate in a congested middle at times. I looked at crossing stats a while ago and I discovered that in the 2011/2012 season the best teams in the Premier League completed around 25% of crosses and scored from just 2%. I think in general fans have too high an expectation of a goal from both crosses and similarly set pieces which leads to pretty much every club across the country believing they are bad at converting them. I'd predict we're much less bad than others (on crosses at least, set pieces is another story) but I don't have Championship stats to hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 There tends to be no point in us slinging crosses in, when do you ever seen us score a headed goal like that? Very rarely. We are better working it, looking for the opening then if we have to put it across then we look for the cut back or get it low and hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal is a Ram Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 A lot of the crosses were inches away from finding their man, I'm not worried. As for the aerial ball, it's just not our style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 I agree our style outweighs poor crosses.As Srg says,we score in other ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireRam Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Most people agree that, last season's best crosses came from Forsyth. His crossing worked best when he hit it low and hard into the space between the keeper and the last defender. This season, Forsyth doesn't seem to have gone forward as much due to Christie going forward at every available opportunity. This means there have been less crosses overall so any bad ones are now highlighted more. Christie seems to prefer cutting inside and then pulling it back for an attacker to strike i.e Hendrick's goal against Rotherham. Different type of play but equally effective as shown by his 5? assists so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Most people agree that, last season's best crosses came from Forsyth. His crossing worked best when he hit it low and hard into the space between the keeper and the last defender. This season, Forsyth doesn't seem to have gone forward as much due to Christie going forward at every available opportunity. This means there have been less crosses overall so any bad ones are now highlighted more. Christie seems to prefer cutting inside and then pulling it back for an attacker to strike i.e Hendrick's goal against Rotherham. Different type of play but equally effective as shown by his 5? assists so far. Funny that Forsyth got an assist in the "Christie-esque" fashion tonight and Russell in a "Forsyth-esque" fashion too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Take that back... Martin got the assist. Didn't realise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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