Last season we could score but couldn’t defend with goals against hitting 1.8 at their peak. Doolan rightly addressed that and since then we have been defensively solid…..4 goals conceded in 6 league games. Good.
Now we struggle to score …..6 in 6 games, we won’t get promoted until we radically improve that number. The real concern is that we are struggling to create any chances. The service to the strikers is non existent, did we have any shots on goal yesterday apart from the goal ? Nope. And the final pass or cross was woeful.
we also seem to have reverted to punting aimless long balls, I lost count of how many times muirhead and Macbeth gave the ball away. Macbeth managed three in a minute ant one point. Everyone can see Graham is off form but will never get dropped so the focus needs to be in midfield where things are still not right. I think brannigan or stanway starting yesterday would have been better.
im also not sure the ‘tweak’ to what seems to be his preferred 3-5-2 system helped much either though at times we lined up 5-3-2 or it seemed 5-4-1.
we were lucky to get a win yesterday - ‘ we didn’t create much ‘ doolan - and their keeper should have saved the shot, we will take it but need to improve substantially for next week.
still not convincing after 6 games.