DMAA 3,658 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 10 minutes ago, buster. said: McGregor Tav Goldson Katic Flanagan Jack Ejaria Arfield Candeias Morelos Kent Pretty much guaranteed. With us more likely to be playing on the counter I'd prefer Middleton to Kent because he'll break away faster up the wing and get more balls in the box, but little chance of him getting much more than a cameo I think. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 5,257 Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, DMAA said: Pretty much guaranteed. With us more likely to be playing on the counter I'd prefer Middleton to Kent because he'll break away faster up the wing and get more balls in the box, but little chance of him getting much more than a cameo I think. Better off with Kent starting, he has more experience of playing within our European set-up. Lafferty has more chance of a start than Middleton. Edited August 27, 2018 by buster. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMAA 3,658 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 1 minute ago, buster. said: Better off with Kent starting, he has more experience of playing within our European set-up. Lafferty has more chance of a start than Middleton. Maybe so, I'm just thinking of who's style is most suited to playing on the counter and for me it's Middleton. Lafferty is a striker and should only play there imo. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSocksRedTops 3,806 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 11 minutes ago, DMAA said: Maybe so, I'm just thinking of who's style is most suited to playing on the counter and for me it's Middleton. Lafferty is a striker and should only play there imo. Does Lafferty not play that role on the counter attack for NI? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 5,257 Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 13 minutes ago, DMAA said: Maybe so, I'm just thinking of who's style is most suited to playing on the counter and for me it's Middleton. Lafferty is a striker and should only play there imo. This game is about discipline and keeping to a gameplan. Kent has shown he can do that and SG can't do other than play the short odds. If later in the game we need goals, Middleton becomes an option. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 5,257 Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) 6 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said: Does Lafferty not play that role on the counter attack for NI? I think SG might initially be looking to split the up top role between Morelos and Lafferty for this one, eg. Morelos 60mins/Lafferty 30. However, match circumstances may force change and we end-up needing them both on the field. Edited August 27, 2018 by buster. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn 206 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 On 24/08/2018 at 09:01, buster. said: A quick scan of our European history shows us having won the First leg 1-0, at Home in KO ties (ie. not group stage) a total of 8 times with the balance of success in our favour. We went on to get through the tie on 6 occasions but were put out twice. 75% success rate which is better than the general stats that say a 1-0 home victory in the first leg gives you a 61% of going through https://kassiesa.net/uefa/forum/view.php?archive=2008.Q3&topic=20080919192651.xml Six successful 60's: Rapid Vienna 70's: Young Boys of Berne and Lillestrom 80's: Katowice 90's: Anorthosis 00's: Red Star Two unsuccessful 80s: Osasuna 2010's: Progres Kaiserslautern in 2000. Beat them 1-0 at Ibrox with a late Albertz goal then got done 3-0 in Germany. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 5,257 Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Unicorn said: Kaiserslautern in 2000. Beat them 1-0 at Ibrox with a late Albertz goal then got done 3-0 in Germany. A quick scan of our European history shows us having won the First leg 1-0, at Home in KO ties (ie. not group stage) a total of 9 times with the balance of success in our favour. We went on to get through the tie on 6 occasions but were put out three times. 67% success rate which is better than the general stats that say a 1-0 home victory in the first leg gives you a 61% of going through https://kassiesa.net/uefa/forum/view.php?archive=2008.Q3&topic=20080919192651.xml Six successful 60's: Rapid Vienna 70's: Young Boys of Berne and Lillestrom 80's: Katowice 90's: Anorthosis 00's: Red Star Three unsuccessful 80s: Osasuna 00's: Kaiserslautern 2010's: Progres Edited August 27, 2018 by buster. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
les186 271 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 That Progres result still haunts me, although the fact that they ran Ufa close gives us some encouragement. I'd like to think we'd beat Progres fairly comfortably this season. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walterbear 557 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Thing that worries me about UFA is their size. Couple of big lads up front and we did poorly on set pieces at Motherwell. I might be wrong but they didn’t look like the type of team to cause problems outside the sort of tactics the Russian national team played. Convinced if we score we are through. Plastic pitch a bit of a worry but we did OK at Killie (albeit) UFA are better than them. We need to be a lot braver than we were against Motherwell in terms of controlling the ball and playing further up the pitch. If we sit in we will lose. If we are brave we will score. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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