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Hearts v Motherwell 17/02/2024


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For set pieces you get touch tight, block, harry and harass your opponent to stop him getting a free run at goal. To have nobody within a yard of Shankland let alone not actually touching him as the ball is played is just so so bad and basic and avoidable. If you do all that and he beats you in the air then fair doos, but to give him a free unblocked run at goal is a shocker.

 

As for the second goal, O'Donnell is generally quite solid defensively, it's his aimless hoofballs I criticise, but he hasn't covered himself in glory there, needs to be tougher.

 

Bad bad goals to concede. Story of our season.

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Another one of those performances that typifies our season, missed some great chances, and can't defend set pieces.

Annoying that Mandron missed a penalty against Livi, it would be nice to see them totally dead and buried as they now have back-to-back wins going into games against County then us.

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On 2/17/2024 at 7:44 PM, wellsince75 said:

SK mentioned he's sick fed up with the same basic errors. 

STOP playing the same culprits then Stuart.  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  Stop the loyalty to those who hurt us regularly. 

Okay, so who do we drop? And who do we replace them with?

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8 minutes ago, David said:

Okay, so who do we drop? And who do we replace them with?

@David  I''d drop Mugabi, S'OD & Butcher.   Sadly Butcher is a yard shorter of pace than when he joined us. 

This would mean stop playing 3 centre halves and go with a back 4 rather than back 5.

Divine, McGinn,  Casey,  Gent

I'd put the extra man in midfield and have both Miller & Halliday when fit in midfield rather than the either or. 


 

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5 minutes ago, wellsince75 said:

@David  I''d drop Mugabi, S'OD & Butcher.   Sadly Butcher is a yard shorter of pace than when he joined us. 

This would mean stop playing 3 centre halves and go with a back 4 rather than back 5.

Divine, McGinn,  Casey,  Gent

I'd put the extra man in midfield and have both Miller & Halliday when fit in midfield rather than the either or. 

There's every chance we see a combination similar to that at some point. Devine has only started two games for us so far, and only lasted the full 90 minutes against Hearts. He's seemingly being brought up to match fitness. 

Casey has played one game in almost two months, so he's got to get back to fitness. 

I'm thinking that Kettlewell will mix things up a bit when certain players get to match fitness.

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