“It’s the plan of a very unadventurous team. Thats what we were up against and we should have thanked them for possession and played out, unfortunately our lack of structure and out ball meant they could press high.”
“They played it like an away game in Europe and the kick off tactic was beginning of that, then just long balk trying to find Edouard from there. The worry was our players not knowing / being prepared for such a kick off tactic and being set-up to react from the resulting throw in.”
“It’s choking me to say this but Lennon has to take some credit, he learned from the last game we pressured them from the kick off and scored after 2 minutes. I think Stevie G is smart enough to realise he blundered with this set up. I believe this was the same team with the exception of Kent, who was obviously a big miss, that beat them last time out. Why we didn’t press high up was a strange decision.”
“Lennon smashed us in terms of tactics from whistle to whistle. Embarrassing. In a sense it shows they fear us enough to change their style of play. However, this newly found respect had a negative affect on us. It’s now only Hibs that really go toe to toe with us. We seen how that ended.”
“Aye Neil Lennon tactical genuis. Give me f***ing peace.”
“Regression? Pulling off a tactic doesn’t seem like regression. Don’t think they’ll do it all the time either. A one off to catch us out and we stood around like we’d never seen a ball before.”
“Looking back I feel like a bit of a twat shouting “weeeey” at the time. Actually a smart tactic to be fair.”
“It’s very rugby-esque tactically, but makes sense. Particularly if you play a high pressing game.”
“I have never seen that before but fair play it’s actually a great idea, I was wondering at the time what it was all about. They wanted us on the back foot right from the start Gerrard may have won the tactical battle the last 2 games at Ibrox v them but he certainly lost it on Sunday that’s for sure.”
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